Schoen flies notation

The Hermann- Mauguin notation is generally used by crystallographers to describe the space group. Tables exist to convert this notation to the Schoen-flies notation. The first symbol is a capital letter and indicates whether the lattice is primitive. The next symbol refers to the principal axis, whether it is rotation, inversion, or screw, e.g.,... 

In this section, actual molecular structures are shown for the various point groups along with occasional examples from outside chemistry. The Schoen-flies notation is used and the characteristic symmetry elements are enumerated. 

Figure 2.7-6 A Assignment of the Cartesian coordinate axes and the symmetry operations of a planar molecule of point group C2,.. B Character table, 1 symbol of the point group after Schoen-flies 2 international notation of the point group 3 symmetry species (irreducible representations) 4 symmetry operations 5 characters of the symmetry operations in the symmetry species +1 means symmetric, -1 antisymmetric 6 x, y, z assignment of the normal coordinates of the translations, direction of the change of the dipole moment by the infrared active vibrations, R, Ry, and R stand for rotations about the axes specified in the subscript 7 x, xy,. .. assign the Raman active species by the change of the components of the tensor of polarizability, aw, (Xxy,. ...

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