Vibrational intensity analysis

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Near-infrared absorption is therefore essentially due to combination and overtone modes of higher energy fundamentals, such as C-H, N-H, and O-H stretches, which appear as lower overtones and lower order combination modes. Since the NIR absorption of polyatomic molecules thus mainly reflects vibrational contributions from very few functional groups, NIR spectroscopy is less suitable for detailed qualitative analysis than IR, which shows all (active) fundamentals and the overtones and combination modes of low-energy vibrations. On the other hand, since the vibrational intensities of near-infrared bands are considerably lower than those of corresponding infrared bands, optical layers of reasonable size (millimeters, centimeters) may be transmitted in the NIR, even in the case of liquid samples, compared to the layers of pm size which are detected in the infrared. This has important consequences for the direct quantitative study of chemical reactions, chemical equilibria, and phase equilibria via NIR spectroscopy. 

The vibrational intensities and their dependence on the temperature and the pressure are of special interest to quantitative analysis covering an extended region of states. Fig. 6.2-11 shows the vibrational intensity of the 31 3 second overtone, B (6700-7300), which has been determined by integration of the experimental absorbance spectra in the wavenumber region between 6700 cm and 7300 cm. The data points are mean values for the temperature range from 25 °C to 227 °C. A temperature dependence of the vibrational intensity at constant density cannot be detected. 

The assignment of NIR bands and the analysis of the NIR bandshape, band maximum positions, and vibrational intensities is equivalent to the procedures applied to study overtone and combination modes in the classical mid-infrared region. 

I, modes which are strongly affected by intermolecular interactions and which show significant changes in the vibrational intensity, and also in the band-maximum position between gaseous and liquid-like states and type II, modes without any change in the vibrational intensity when pressure and temperature are varied. Materials showing type-II behaviour are perfectly suited for quantitative analysis via online absorption spectroscopy. 

Based on relative intensity and, particularly, bandshape of skeletal bands, it has become possible to obtain the relative energy difference between various rotational isomeric states. In the first study of this type, Snyder and co-workers analyzed low frequency (0-600 cm ) Raman spectra of re-alkanes in the liquid state (35). The method was subsequently applied to analysis of the low frequency Raman spectrum of molten state isotactic polypropylene. The vibrational spectroscopic analysis was successfully used to differentiate the correct model governing the chain (80) and has been extended to analysis of higher frequency vibrations (0-1500 cm" ) of liquid re-alkanes (36). 

The errors encountered with a given level of theory in calculation of vibrational intensities are considerably more profound than those in the frequencies. Meaningless results are common unless the basis set is of double-C quality and contains polarization functions. The double-harmonic approximation is another source of error. Nonetheless, the effects of H-bonding upon the intensity of each mode can be profitably studied within this framework. Analysis of these intensities sheds light upon the electronic density perturbations caused by formation of the bond. 

Since the vibrational intensities of characteristic near-infrared bands are only slightly dependent on the state of the system, NIR is well suited to quantitative analysis up to the high pressures and temperatures of extruders. Moreover, in spectroscopic measurements covering an extended NIR wavenumber range, overtone and combination modes with... 

Infrared ER spectrometry has no mechanism of intensity enhancement, in contrast to other methods such as RA spectrometry to be described in Chapter 10 and surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA), mentioned in Chapter 13. Nonetheless, infrared ER spectrometry provides a unique technique for utilizing s- and p-polarized radiations for obtaining information governed by the surface selection rule on the transition dipoles of molecular vibrations. Theoretical analysis of the information obtained by this technique has the possibility for elucidating molecular orientations in thin films on dielectric substrates and molecular interactions in a wide variety of materials, including liquid crystals. 

Characteristic dipole shifts and vibrational intensity enhancements associated with intermolecular charge transfer, investigated by DIPOLE analysis (Section 6.2). 

It is seen fi-om relations (1.47) and (1.48) that absolute values of dipole moment derivatives can only be evaluated fi om experimental integrated intensities. Therefore, the directions of charge shifts accompanying particular vibrational distortions remain undetermined. This is a major difficulty in any further reduction of vibrational intensity data. For many years the sign ambiguity problem for the dipole moment derivatives has been a cause for the limited application of vibrational intensities in structural analysis. 

Finally, it should be emphasized diat the quantities dp/dQ contain in a radier obscure form the structural information sought. This is due to the very complex nature of normal coordinates. It is, therefore, essential to fiulher reduce the erqierimental dp/dQk. derivatives into quantities characterizing electrical properties of molecular sub-units atomic groupings, chemical bonds or individual atoms. Various theoretical formulations for analysis of vibrational intensities have bemi put forward. The approaches developed are quite analogous to the anal)rsis of vibrational frequencies in tarns of force constants. As known, force constants may be associated with properties of molecular sub-units. If such a rationalization of intensity data is successfully performed, anothm irrqrortant aim of spectroscopy studies may become possible quantitative prediction of vibrational intensities by transferring intensity parameters between molecules containing the same... 

Here we do not aim at presenting the standard methods of solving the Newton vibrational equations. It should be emphasized that essential results of these calculations are the transfonnation coefficients Lij that define the relative contribution of each internal coordinate to the respective normal vibrations in the molecule. As underlined, the availability of accurate vibrational form coefficients are needed in intensity analysis. This is detennined simply by the fact that vibrational intensities in the infrared spectra of molecules in the gas-phase (at low pressure so that no considerable intermolecular interaction is present) are governed by two principal factors (1) the intramolecular charge rearrangements accompanying vibrational distortions and (2) the form of the normal vibrations as expressed in the coefficients of the normal coordinate transfonnation matrix L. The elements of L are determined by solving systems of linear equations of the type [4,6]... 

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