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One is familiar with the idea of discrete and definite electronic stales in molecules, as revealed by molecular spectroscopy. Each electronic stale possesses a number of vibrational states that are occupied to a great extent near the ground state at normal temperatures. Each vibrational state has, if the stcric conditions are enabling, a number of rotational states associated with it, and for gas molecules both the vibrational and the rotational states can easily be observed and measured spectroscopically. Correspondingly, the distribution of the vibrational states in solids (phonon spectra) is easily measurable. 

Standard Definitions of Terms and Symbols Relating to Molecular Spectroscopy" ASTM Designation E-131-71, American Society for Testing and Materials Philadelphia, PA 19103. Spagnola, R. Appl. Spectrosc. 1974, 28(3), 259. 

Finally, some spectroscopic applications for pseudopotentials within SOCI methods are presented in section 3. We focus our attention on applications related to relativistic averaged and spin-orbit pseudopotentials (other effective core potentials applications are presented in chapters 6 and 7 in this book). Due to the large number of theoretical studies carried out so far, we have chosen to illustrate the different SOCI methods and discuss a few results, rather than to present an extensive review of the whole set of pseudopotential spectroscopic applications which would be less informative. Concerning the works not reported here, we refer to the exhaustive and up-to-date bibliography on relativistic molecular studies by Pyykko [21-24]. The choice of an application is made on the basis of its ability to illustrate the performances on both the pseudopotential and the SOCI methods. One has to keep in mind that it is not easy to compare objectively different pseudopotentials in use since this would require the same conditions in calculations (core definition, atomic basis set, SOCI method). The applications are separated into gas phase (section 3.1) and embedded (section 3.2) molecular applications. Even if the main purpose of this chapter is to deal with applications to molecular spectroscopy, it is of great interest to underline the importance of the spin-orbit coupling on the ground state reactivity of open-shell systems. A case study is presented in section 3.1.4. 

Typical chemical concepts are not as sharp as typical physical concepts. A nice example is that of atomic charge densities which were analyzed [21] in terms of factor analysis and were found to be scalar quantities (different possible definitions do not lead to the same numerical values, but these correlate satisfactorily), at variance with aromaticity [22, 23] which turned out to be a multidimensional half-ordered concept [23]. Primas [17] suggested that molecular structure is a genuine chemical concept, which has no counterpart in rigorous quantum mechanics. On the other hand, situations where molecular structures become undefined do show up in chemistry, or at least in molecular spectroscopy. Quantum phenomena apparently have a stronger tendency to survive in chemistry than in mac-... 

Two of several good introductory presentations are a) G.M. Barrow Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy. McGraw-Hill, New York 1962 b) G.W. King, Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1964. The definitive exposition is c) E.B. Wilson, J.C. Decius and P.C. Cross Molecular Vibrations. McGraw-Hill, New York 1955. 

The scope of this book started as a grandiloquent treatise on the endless subjects pertaining to molecular spectroscopy. The original definition was due in part to the encouragement of Jane Ellis, then an editor at Academic Press. Since its inception, Art and I redefined the book, due to practical limitations, to a more focused manuscript. 

Standard Definitions of Terms and Symbols Relating to Molecular Spectroscopy, ASTM Vol. 14.01, Standard El31-90. 

One noticeable exception is molecular spectroscopy, more specifically infrared spectroscopy, where, almost by definition, quantization of the vibrational states cannot be neglected since it concerns the measurement of the transitions between the quantized vibrational states [15]. Due to its importance in chemistry, for instance for the detection of functional groups in organic chemistry, infrared spectroscopy is one of the very few domains where the students in both physics and chemistry experience the application of a full-quantum mechanical treatment for both the electrons and the nuclei in a molecular system. However, there is growing evidence that a significant number of various chemical reactions are impacted by strong quantum-mechanical effects involving nuclei [16]. 

PESs determined by electronic structure calculations are by definition discrete. Search for the discovery of an underlying universal functional representation is one of the Holy Grails of molecular spectroscopy Perhaps it started in the 1930s, and the analysis Dunham provided is basic to much of the work in which potential energy curves are approximated by polynomials. Dunham showed that, if a potential energy curve of a diatomic molecule can be expressed as a power series... 

In this review the definition of orientation and orientation functions or orientation averages will be considered in detail. This will be followed by a comprehensive account of the information which can be obtained by three spectroscopic techniques, infra-red and Raman spectroscopy and broad line nuclear magnetic resonance. The use of polarized fluorescence will not be discussed here, but is the subject of a contemporary review article by the author and J. H. Nobbs 1. The present review will be completed by consideration of the information which has been obtained on the development of molecular orientation in polyethylene terephthalate and poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) where there are also clearly defined changes in the conformation of the molecule. In this paper, particular attention will be given to the characterization of biaxially oriented films. Previous reviews of this subject have been given by the author and his colleagues, but have been concerned with discussion of results for uniaxially oriented systems only2,3). 

Vibrational spectroscopy provides the most definitive means of identifying the surface species arising from molecular adsorption and the species generated by surface reaction, and the two techniques that are routinely used for vibrational studies of molecules on surfaces are Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS) (q.v.). 

In general, all observed intemuclear distances are vibrationally averaged parameters. Due to anharmonicity, the average values will change from one vibrational state to the next and, in a molecular ensemble distributed over several states, they are temperature dependent. All these aspects dictate the need to make statistical definitions of various conceivable, different averages, or structure types. In addition, since the two main tools for quantitative structure determination in the vapor phase—gas electron diffraction and microwave spectroscopy—interact with molecular ensembles in different ways, certain operational definitions are also needed for a precise understanding of experimental structures. 

The phenomenon of fluorescence has been synonymous with ultraviolet (UV) and visible spectroscopy rather than near-infrared (near-IR) spectroscopy from the beginning of the subject. This fact is evidenced in definitive texts which also provide useful background information for this volume (see, e.g., Refs. 1-6). Consequently, our understanding of the many molecular phenomena which can be studied with fluorescence techniques, e.g., excimer formation, energy transfer, diffusion, and rotation, is based on measurements made in the UV/visible. Historically, this emphasis was undoubtedly due to the spectral response of the eye and the availability of suitable sources and detectors for the UV/visible in contrast to the lack of equivalent instrumentation for the IR. Nevertheless, there are a few notable exceptions to the prevalence of UV/visible techniques in fluorescence such as the near-IR study of chlorophyll(7) and singlet oxygen,<8) which have been ongoing for some years. 

Concomitant with these developments in spectroscopy, thermochemists were finding that, to a reasonable approximation, molecular enthalpies could be determined as a sum of bond enthalpies. Thus, assuming transferability, if two different molecules were to be composed of identical bonds (i.e., they were to be isomers of one kind or another), the sum of the differences in the strains of diose bonds from one molecule to the other (which would arise from different bond lengths in the two molecules - the definition of strain in this instance is the positive deviation from the zero of energy) would allow one to predict the difference in enthalpies. Such prediction was a major goal of the emerging area of organic conformational analysis. 

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