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Multiple Chiral Centers. The number of stereoisomers increases rapidly with an increase in the number of chiral centers in a molecule. A molecule possessing two chiral atoms should have four optical isomers, that is, four structures consisting of two pairs of enantiomers. However, if a compound has two chiral centers but both centers have the same four substituents attached, the total number of isomers is three rather than four. One isomer of such a compound is not chiral because it is identical with its mirror image it has an internal mirror plane. This is an example of a diaster-eomer. The achiral structure is denoted as a meso compound. Diastereomers have different physical and chemical properties from the optically active enantiomers. Recognition of a plane of symmetry is usually the easiest way to detect a meso compound. The stereoisomers of tartaric acid are examples of compounds with multiple chiral centers (see Fig. 1.14), and one of its isomers is a meso compound. 

As predicted by elementary hybrid bonding theory, the multiple bonds of the chemist s Lewis-structure diagram are usually found to correspond to two distinct types of NBOs (1) sigma-type, having exact or approximate cylindrical symmetry about the bond axis (as discussed in Sections 3.2.5-3.2.7), and (2) pi-type, having a nodal mirror plane passing through the nuclei 44... 

First, it is necessary to define the structure. The structure of a planar zig-zag polyethylene chain is shown in Fig. 2, together with its symmetry elements. These are C2 — a two-fold rotation axis, C — a two-fold screw axis, i — a center of inversion, a — a mirror plane, and og — a glide plane. Not shown are the indentity operation, E, and the infinite number of translations by multiples of the repeat (or unit cell) distance along the chain axis. All of these symmetry operations, but no others, leave the configuration of the molecule unchanged. 

The clock example illustrates most principles of importance in discrete symmetry groups with translation, also known as crystallographic symmetry groups. For simplicity consider a two-dimensional unit cell with a two-fold axis T, pictured as a pointed ellipse, and two mirror planes my and mu-To construct a multiplication table any general position (not coincident with... 

Both are body-centered Bravais lattices and for both the site symmetry of the origin is identical with the short space group symbol. The body-center position is of the lowest multiplicity (two-fold) and highest symmetry, and thus is considered as the origin in the lA/mmm space group. However, in the tetragonal lattice, a = b c. Hence, the body center position is not an inversion center. It possesses four-fold rotational symmetry (the axis is parallel to c) with a perpendicular mirror plane and two additional perpendicular mirror planes that contain the rotation axis. 

As far as symmetry groups are of concern, the inversion rule also holds since the inverse of any symmetry element is the same symmetry element applied twice, for example as in the case of the center of inversion, mirror plane and two-fold rotation axis, or the same rotation applied in the opposite direction, as in the case of any rotation axis of the third order or higher. In a numerical group with addition as the combination law, the inverse element would be the element which has the sign opposite to the selected element, i.e. M + (-M) = (-M) + M = 0 (unity), while when the combination law is multiplication, the inverse element is the inverse of the selected element, i.e. MM = M M = 1 (unity). 

In general, g =l/ , where n is the multiplicity of the symmetry element which causes the overlap of the corresponding atoms. When the culprits are a mirror plane, a two fold rotation axis or a center of inversion, n = l and g = 0.5. For a three fold rotation axis = 3 and = 1/3, and so on (Figure... 

A molecule can have multiple chiral centers without being chiral overall It is then called a meso compound. This occurs if there is a symmetry element (a mirror plane or inversion center) which relates the chiral centers. 

The site occupancy factors must take into account the multiplicity of the special position. For example, in the case of a mirror plane, a twofold axis and an inversion centre, the so/instmction has to possess the value 10.5 0 0 0. A threefold axis causes a 0/instruction of 10.3333 and a fourfold axis one of 10.2500, and so forth. SHELXL generates these site occupancy factors automatically only for atoms on or very close to special positions, but not necessarily for all atoms involved in a disorder about a special position. 

Two mirror planes whose intersection forms the angle 0 generate a rotation axis of period 20. Figure 2.13(a) shows two mirror planes that intersect at an angle of 45° and thus create a 90° rotation. Multiple application of these two reflections yields a fourfold rotation axis and four mirror planes which belong to... 

There are two other special positions located on the twofold points with a multiplicity of 2 and site symmetry 2.. thus, an object which occupies this position must be invariant with respect to a twofold rotation. Figure 2.30 shows that the point symmetry of the object can be higher but not lower than the site symmetry. The object placed at (0,0) has the symmetry 2, whereas the symmetry 2mm of the object placed at (0, 1/2) is higher than the site symmetry (mirror planes parallel and perpendicular to the axis of the dumbbell). 

The order (h) of a character table is the sum of all the symmetry elements. For C j, again the order is 4 however, the number of classes and the order of the matrix are not always the same. Sometimes, the symmetry elements have a coefficient in front. The coefficient simply means there are multiple equivalents of that symmetry element included in that class. For example, there are six symmetry elements for the point group Cj E, C3, Cj, G and o ". Because C3 and Cj have identical columns in the character table, however, you find them grouped together into one class on your character table with a 2 in front of C3 (as in 2C3). You find the three mirror planes grouped into one class as well, so you are left with three classes on the character table (E, 2C3, and 3o but an order of 6. 

Solution. The structure of triphenylphosphine is shown above. The complete set of symmetry operations is , C3, and C3 There are no mirror planes of symmetry because of the propeller nature of the phenyl groups. The multiplication table is shown below. 

The total symmetry of each state is determined by the symmetries of the populated molecular orbitals in that state. We need not concern ourselves with molecular orbitals that are not populated with electrons. In the analysis of the [2+2] cycloaddition, there were two mirror planes defined as mirror planes. To do this, one creates a multiplication product of the symmetries of the electrons with respect to each symmetry operation. Let s start with the ground state of the mixture of ethylene orbitals. With respect to four electrons in orbitals that are S, so the state symmetry is S X S X S X S. With respect to <72/ two electrons are in an orbital that is S, and two electrons are in an orbital that is A. Therefore the product is S X S X A X A. 

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