Molecular structure physical properties

Molecular Structure Effects and Detergency. The correlation of surfactant structure with interfacial and colloid properties is a poorly understood science. Much study in this area has been thermodynamic which has been a useful endeavor but which nevertheless fails to provide specific molecular structure/physical property correlations. The following study has also been largely thermodynamic to this point however, since the data has been collected on pure LAS homologs, it provides an opportunity to apply some of the quasi-thermodynamic treatments that have been proffered in the literature to date. 

In this chapter an attempt is made to improve some of the existing molecular structure/physical properties correlations. A set of consistently measured TA data is used, in order to estimate the above mentioned key-properties of polymeric systems. 

These retention patterns have encouraged different research lines trying to find relationships between retention values and compound characteristics. Structural properties can be expressed numerically by using "descriptors" (parameters that try to describe as accurately as possible a molecular structure). Physical properties of the analyte (boiling point, vapour pressure) can also be considered as experimental descriptors. 

Organic Materials. Degradation of organic materials is a result of chemical attack by the penetration of chemical constituents from the corrodent. The mechanisms and the phenomena depend on material composition, molecular structure, physical properties, and the operating conditions. 

Poly(L-lactic acid) (PLEA) is hydrolytically unstable and does not withstand humid heat. The more and more extended radiation sterilization on medical wear imposes investigation of induced effects. It undergoes random chain scission, when subjected to ionizing radiation consequences of this phenomenon on the crystalline state can reflect the induced modifications. The linear decrease of crystallinity (Table 40) [02K3] describes the constant deterioration of molecular structure. Physical properties like melting enthalpy and crystallization heat which are sensitive to the modification in molecular size and interactions are adequately mitigated (Fig. 58). 

Polymer refers to a generic name which is assigned to a vast number of materials of high Molecular weight. These materials are known to exist in numerous forms and numbers because of a very large number and types of atoms present in their molecules. Polymers can be having different chemical structures, physical properties, mechanical behaviour, thermal characteristics, etc., and would be classified on different ways. 

Kuchitsu, K. MTP International Review of Science. Physical Chemistry Series One, VoL 2. Allen, G. (ed.). Molecular Structure and Properties. London Butterworths 1972 Karle, J. Diffraction studies on noncrystalline substances. Hargittai, I., Orville-Thomas,... 

Every example of a vibration we have introduced so far has dealt with a localized set of atoms, either as a gas-phase molecule or a molecule adsorbed on a surface. Hopefully, you have come to appreciate from the earlier chapters that one of the strengths of plane-wave DFT calculations is that they apply in a natural way to spatially extended materials such as bulk solids. The vibrational states that characterize bulk materials are called phonons. Like the normal modes of localized systems, phonons can be thought of as special solutions to the classical description of a vibrating set of atoms that can be used in linear combinations with other phonons to describe the vibrations resulting from any possible initial state of the atoms. Unlike normal modes in molecules, phonons are spatially delocalized and involve simultaneous vibrations in an infinite collection of atoms with well-defined spatial periodicity. While a molecule s normal modes are defined by a discrete set of vibrations, the phonons of a material are defined by a continuous spectrum of phonons with a continuous range of frequencies. A central quantity of interest when describing phonons is the number of phonons with a specified vibrational frequency, that is, the vibrational density of states. Just as molecular vibrations play a central role in describing molecular structure and properties, the phonon density of states is central to many physical properties of solids. This topic is covered in essentially all textbooks on solid-state physics—some of which are listed at the end of the chapter. 

K. Kuchitsu, in Molecular Structure and Properties (Ed. G. Allen), Chap. 6, MTP International Review of Science, Physical Chemistry, Series 1, Vol. 2, Butterworths, University Park Press, London, Baltimore, 1972, pp. 203-240. 

Density matrices and density functionals have important roles in both the interpretation and the calculation of atomic and molecular structures and properties. The fundamental importance of electronic correlation in many-body systems makes this topic a central area ofresearch in quantum chemistry and molecular physics. Relativistic effects are being increasingly recognized as an essential ingredient ofstudies on many-body systems, not only from a formal viewpoint but also for practical applications to molecules and materials involving heavy atoms. Valence theory deserves special attention since it... 

Molecular descriptors and chemical spaces. The majority of chemoinformatics methods depend on the generation of chemical reference spaces into which molecular data sets are projected and where analysis or design is carried out. The definition of chemical spaces critically depends on the use of computational descriptors of molecular structure, physical or chemical properties, or pharmacophores. Essentially, any comparison of molecular characteristics that goes beyond simple structural comparison requires the calculation of property values and the application... 

J. L. Rivail, Modeling of Molecular Structures and Properties. Proceedings of the 44th International Meeting of Physical Chemistry on Modeling of Molecular Structures and Properties in Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, Nancy, France, 11-15 September... 

It must be noted that the reversible binding of molecular oxygen by these haemoproteins can only take place when the iron is in the II oxidation state. Thus the ferric state, with which this article is mainly concerned, is not of direct biological importance in this type of haemo-protein. However, ferrohaemoglobin and ferromyoglobin are readily oxidised in vitro to the ferric or met-form, and most studies of the structure, physical properties and reactivity of these proteins have been performed on the ferric form. The ferric form is in fact a very useful probe, since its electronic properties are extremely sensitive to the environment of the metal. 

Allen, G. Molecular Structure and Properties. Vol. 2 of Physical Chemistry. Series 1. Baltimore, University Park Press, 1972. 

Oxidation of polymer is accompanied by the change of their structure - physical properties - crystallinity, molecular mobility, strength and so on. Orientation of crystalline regions is disturbed in stressed samples the number of crystals with definite space orientation of crystal lattice axes decreases, the form of the curve of crystal distribution axes in respect to orientation axis changes. Change for the worse of crystals orientation is explained by stress relief, occurring in polymer at the expense of oxidative destruction of macromolecules in amorphous intercrystalline region [301]. 

M.P. Bogaard and B.J. Orr, in International Review of Science, Physical Chemistry, Molecular Structure, and Properties, edited by... 

A surprisingly large array of physical methods has been applied to metal complexes in order to provide information on molecular structure, stereochemistry, properties and reactivity. While characterization may be tackled by first isolating a complex in the solid state, this approach is complicated by differences that sometimes exist between the character of a species in solution and the solid state. In fact, it may be inappropriate to assume that the isolated solid state species even persists in solution. Thus, it may be necessary to define species in different environments. Fortunately, the vast array of chemical and instrumental methods now available makes the task of defining structure achievable, but what to choose and how a method assists definition is not always obvious. 

Many chemical structure/physical property relations have been reported in literature but the most important contributions in this field have been made, we think, by Van Krevelen [1] and Bicerano [2]. Both authors present a total concept for polymer properties/molecular structure correlations based on the group contribution technique (Van Krevelen) and on connectivity indices calculations (Bicerano) covering all the properties mentioned in group A and B and some of the properties of group C. Seitz published a concept to estimate the mechanical properties (from group A and C) of polymers from their molecular structure [3]. 

Adhvaryu, A. B.K. Sharma H.S. Hwang S.Z. Erhan J.M. Perez. Development of biobased synthetic fluids Application of molecular modeling to structure-physical property relationship. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2006b, 45, 928-933. 

W. F. van Gunsteren, in Modelling of Molecular Structures and Properties, Studies in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Vol. 71, J.-L. Rivail, Ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 463-478. On Testing Theoretical Models by Comparison of Calculated with Experimental Data. 

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