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There does not seem to be any selection rule such as conservation of spin or orbital angular momentum which this reaction does not satisfy. It is also not clear that overall spin conservation, for example, is necessary in efficient reactions (5, 16, 17, 20). Further, recent results (21) seem to show a greatly enhanced (20 times) reaction rate when the N2 is in an excited vibrational state (vibrational temperature 4000 °K. or about 0.3 e.v.). This suggests the presence of an activation energy or barrier. A barrier of 0.3 e.v. is consistent with the low energy variation of the measured cross-section in Figure 1. 

The zeroth-order Hamiltonian and the spin-orbit part of the perturbation are diagonal with respect to the quantum numbers K, S, P, Ur, It, t>c, and lc-The terms of H involving the parameters aj, ac, and bo are diagonal with respect to both the lT and lc quantum numbers, while the hi term connects with one another the basis functions with l T = lT 2, l c = Zc T 2. The c terms couple with each other the electronic species —A and A. The selection rules for the vibrational quantum numbers are v Tjc = vT/c, t)j/c 2, vT/c 4. 

In the lowest optically excited state of the molecule, we have one electron (t u) and one hole (/i ), each with spin 1/2 which couple through the Coulomb interaction and can either form a singlet 5 state (5 = 0), or a triplet T state (5 = 1). Since the electric dipole matrix element for optical transitions H em = (ep A)/(me) does not depend on spin, there is a strong spin selection rule (A5 = 0) for optical electric dipole transitions. This strong spin selection rule arises from the very weak spin-orbit interaction for carbon. Thus, to turn on electric dipole transitions, appropriate odd-parity vibrational modes must be admixed with the initial and (or) final electronic states, so that the weak absorption below 2.5 eV involves optical transitions between appropriate vibronic levels. These vibronic levels are energetically favored by virtue... 

Ti + belongs to the d configuration, which is the simplest one. The free ion has fivefold orbital degeneracy ( D), which is spht into two levels E and T2) in octahedral symmetry, which is quite common for transition metal ions. The only possible optical transition with excitation is from T2 to E. This transition is a forbidden one, since it occurs between levels of the d-sheU. Therefore the parity does not changed. The parity selection rule may be relaxed by the coupling of the electronic transition with vibrations of suitable symmetry. 

The orbital and vibrational components of the wave functions as expanded in equation (46) are functions of the Cartesian coordinates. They can generally be classified as being symmetric to inversion through the origin (g) or antisymmetric to this operation ( ). The integration implicit in equation (45), from -oo to +oo, yields two qualitatively different results on the basis of such a classification. As r has the u classification it gives a zero value if if/ and t/f have the same classification (both g or both u) but, possibly, a finite value if they differ in classification (one g, one u). We have then a further selection rule only transition between functions of opposite parity are allowed. 

Again, since the d orbitals have even parity, even if the molecule does not have an inversion center there is an approximate selection rule in which transitions that would be g -> g (or u -> u) in a parent group with inversion symmetry are allowed. The odd parity vibrations that dominate the single photon spectrum are forbidden, while the even parity vibrations are allowed, but have no advantage over the pure electronic transitions. Experimental two-photon spectra of the sharp-line transitions of Mn4+ in a Cs2Ge F6 host confirm both the simplicity of the spectrum and the relative prominence of the 0-0 lines [55],... 

In the next chapter, we will present various chemical applications of group theory, including molecular orbital and hybridization theories, spectroscopic selection rules, and molecular vibrations. Before proceeding to these topics, we first need to introduce the character tables of symmetry groups. It should be emphasized that the following treatment is in no way mathematically rigorous. Rather, the presentation is example- and application-oriented. 

In this chapter, we discuss the various applications of group theory to chemical problems. These include the description of structure and bonding based on hybridization and molecular orbital theories, selection rules in infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and symmetry of molecular vibrations. As will be seen, even though most of the arguments used are qualitative in nature, meaningful results and conclusions can be obtained. 

The Laporte selection rule is weakened, or relaxed, by three factors first, by the absence of a centre of symmetry in the coordination polyhedron second, by mixing of d and p orbitals which possess opposite parities and third, by the interaction of electronic 3d orbital states with odd-parity vibrational modes. If the coordination environment about the cation lacks a centre of symmetry, which is the case when a cation occupies a tetrahedral site, some mixing of d... 

Thus it may produce the transitional densities of the alg, egc, and tluz symmetries. At this point selection rules pertinent to the frontier orbitals approximation enter for the 12-electron complexes the symmetries of the frontier orbitals are Th = eg and Tl = ai3, the tensor product Th <8> TL = eg aig = eg contains only the irreducible representation eg so that the selection rules allow only the density component of the egc symmetry to appear. In its turn this density induces additional deformation of the same symmetry. That means that in the frontier orbitals approximation, only the elastic constant for the vibration modes of the symmetry eg is renormalized. This result is to be understood in terms of individual nuclear shifts of the ligands in the trans- and cis-positions relative to the apical one. They, respectively, are ... 

In general, tetrahedral complexes have more intense absorptions than octahedral complexes. This is a consequence of the first (Laporte) selection rule (Section 11-3-1) transitions between d orbitals in a complex having a center of symmetry are forbidden. As a result, absorption bands for octahedral complexes are weak (small molar absorptivi-ties) that they absorb at all is the result of vibrational motions that act continually to distort molecules slightly from pure symmetry. 

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