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McCreery R L, Liu Y-C, Kagen M, Chen P and Fryling M 1996 Resonance and normal Raman spectroscopy of carbon surfaces relationships of surface structure and reactivity ICORS 96 XVth Int. Conf. on Raman Spectroscopy ed S A Asher and P B Stein (New York Wiley) pp 566-7... 

Of course, the guesses above aren t really guesses. They are predicated on many years of Raman and other spectroscopic experience and calculations that are the reverse of the calculation we descr ibed. In spectroscopic studies, one normally calculates the force constants from the stretching frequencies in modeling, one... 

Solid covalent dinitrogen pentoxide can be prepared by freezing the vapour with liquid helium. Normally, solid dinitrogen pentoxide exists as (NO2+) (NOj ), showing absorption bands in its Raman spectrum only at 1050 and 1400 cm the structure of this form has been determined by X-ray crystallography. ... 

Until 1962 the infrared and Raman spectra of thiazole in the liquid state were described by some authors (173, pp. 194-200) with only fragmentary assignments. At that date Chouteau et al. (201) published the first tentative interpretation of the whole infrared spectrum between 4000 and 650 cm for thiazole and some alkyl and haloderivatlves. They proposed a complete assignment of the normal modes of vibration of the molecule. 

The infrared and Raman spectra of many alkyl and arylthiazoles have been recorded. Band assignment and more fundamental work has been undertaken on a small number of derivatives. Several papers have been dedicated to the interpretation of infrared spectra (128-134, 860), but they are not always in agreement with each other. However, the work of Chouteau (99, 135) is noteworthy. The infrared spectrum of thiazole consists of 18 normal vibrations as well as harmonic and combination bands. 

The mechanism for Stokes and anti-Stokes vibrational Raman transitions is analogous to that for rotational transitions, illustrated in Figure 5.16. As shown in Figure 6.3, intense monochromatic radiation may take the molecule from the u = 0 state to a virtual state Vq. Then it may return to u = 0 in a Rayleigh scattering process or to u = 1 in a Stokes Raman transition. Alternatively, it may go from the v = state to the virtual state Fj and return to V = (Rayleigh) or to u = 0 (Raman anti-Stokes). Flowever, in many molecules at normal... 

Experimental values of AG ii2 for high values of v are not normally obtainable from infrared or Raman spectroscopy because of the low intensities of Av = 2, 3,... 

Raman scattering is normally of such very low intensity that gas phase Raman spectroscopy is one of the more difficult techniques. This is particularly the case for vibration-rotation Raman spectroscopy since scattering involving vibrational transitions is much weaker than that involving rotational transitions, which were described in Sections 5.3.3 and 5.3.5. For this reason we shall consider here only the more easily studied infrared vibration-rotation spectroscopy which must also be investigated in the gas phase (or in a supersonic jet, see Section 9.3.8). 

Normal modes of vibration, with their corresponding normal coordinates, are very satisfactory in describing the low-lying vibrational levels, usually those with u = 1 or 2, which can be investigated by traditional infrared absorption or Raman spectroscopy. For certain types of vibration, particularly stretching vibrations involving more than one symmetrically equivalent terminal atom, this description becomes less satisfactory as v increases. 

Stimulated Raman spectroscopy is experimentally different from normal Raman spectroscopy in that the scattering is observed in the forward direction, emerging from the sample in the same direction as that of the emerging exciting radiation, or at a very small angle to it. 

The repeat distance along the chain axis (0.468 nm) is significantly less than that calculated for a planar zigzag stmcture. Therefore, the polymer must be in some other conformation (65—67). Based on k and Raman studies of PVDC single crystals and normal vibration analysis, the best conformation appears to be where the skeletal angle, is 120°, and the torsional of opposite sign) is 32.5°. This conformation is in... 

Vibrational spectra including Raman data of 3,3-dimethyldiaziridine and its hexadeutero compound were recorded in the gas phase and in the crystalline state. Assuming C2 symmetry and employing isotopic shifts and comparison with azetidine, a classification of bands which regarded 33 normal modes could be given (75SA(A)1509). 

Normal mode analysis exists as one of the two main simulation techniques used to probe the large-scale internal dynamics of biological molecules. It has a direct connection to the experimental techniques of infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and the process of comparing these experimental results with the results of normal mode analysis continues. However, these experimental techniques are not yet able to access directly the lowest frequency modes of motion that are thought to relate to the functional motions in proteins or other large biological molecules. It is these modes, with frequencies of the order of 1 cm , that mainly concern this chapter. 

The Raman spectrum in Fig. 10 for solid Ceo shows 10 strong Raman lines, the number of Raman-allowed modes expected for the intramolecular modes of the free molecule [6, 94, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97]. As first calculated by Stanton and Newton [98], the normal modes in molecular Ceo above about 1000 cm involve carbon atom displacements that are predominantly tangential... 

Key Words—Vibrations, infrared, Raman, disordered carbons, carbon nanotubes, normal modes. 

Graphite exhibits strong second-order Raman-active features. These features are expected and observed in carbon tubules, as well. Momentum and energy conservation, and the phonon density of states determine, to a large extent, the second-order spectra. By conservation of energy hut = huty + hbi2, where bi and ill) (/ = 1,2) are, respectively, the frequencies of the incoming photon and those of the simultaneously excited normal modes. There is also a crystal momentum selection rule hV. = -I- q, where k and q/... 

Chapter 4, Frequency Calculations, discusses computing the second derivatives of the energy and using it to predict IR and Raman frequencies and intensities and vibrational normal modes. It also considers other uses... 

Just as the derivatives of the electric dipole with respect to normal coordinates are important in infrared spectroscopy, so the same derivatives of the polarizability play a role in Raman spectroscopy. 

The intensity of a Raman band in the harmonie approximation is given by the derivative of the polarizability with respect to a normal coordinate. 

Kwiatkowski and Lesczcynski and (2) Nowak, Adamowicz, Smets, and Maes. Within the harmonie approximation, ab initio methods yield very aeeurate frequeneies for the fundamental vibrations (normal eoor-dinate ealeulations) although in most eases the values need to be sealed (sealing faetor 0.9 to 0.98 depending on the theoretieal method used). The eomparison with the experimental speetrum suffers for the following reasons (1) most tautomerie eompounds are studied in solution while the ealeulated speetrum eorresponds to the gas phase (2) eombination, overtone, and Fermi resonanee bands are not eomputed and (3) ealeulations are mueh less aeeurate for absolute intensities than for frequeneies. This last problem ean be partially overeome by reeording the eomple-mentary Raman speetrum. Some representative publications are shown in Table V. 

QCMB RAM SBR SEI SEM SERS SFL SHE SLI SNIFTIRS quartz crystal microbalance rechargeable alkaline manganese dioxide-zinc styrene-butadiene rubber solid electrolyte interphase scanning electron microscopy surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy sulfolane-based electrolyte standard hydrogen electrode starter-light-ignition subtractively normalized interfacial Fourier transform infrared... 

The infra-red measurements were of two types, normal-film measurements with the sample sandwiched between KBr plates, and tilted-film experiments with the sample sandwiched between 45° prisms of KBr, in each case with layers of Nujol to provide optical matching. Whereas the 1616 cm 1 Raman line occurs in a region well clear of other lines so that it was satisfactory to measure peak intensities, the infra-red spectrum of PET shows many overlapping bands. Accurate assessment of absorption intensities therefore requires the computer separation of the spectrum into a set of overlapping peaks (shown to be Lorentzian in profile) and a linear background. The procedures adopted and the band assignments are discussed in detail by Hutchinson et al. 6). 

Fig. 3.6. Density transformation of nitrogen isotropic Raman spectrum normalized to a maximum [89] (gas density is given in amagat).

Summarizing, in the crystal there are 36 Raman active internal modes (symmetry species Ug, hig, 2g> and 26 infrared active internal modes (biw b2w hsu) as well as 12 Raman active and 7 infrared active external vibrations (librations and translations). Vibrations of the type are inactive because there appears no dipole moment along the normal coordinates in these vibrations of the crystal. 

The first Raman and infrared studies on orthorhombic sulfur date back to the 1930s. The older literature has been reviewed before [78, 92-94]. Only after the normal coordinate treatment of the Sg molecule by Scott et al. [78] was it possible to improve the earlier assignments, especially of the lattice vibrations and crystal components of the intramolecular vibrations. In addition, two technical achievements stimulated the efforts in vibrational spectroscopy since late 1960s the invention of the laser as an intense monochromatic light source for Raman spectroscopy and the development of Fourier transform interferometry in infrared spectroscopy. Both techniques allowed to record vibrational spectra of higher resolution and to detect bands of lower intensity. 

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