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For comparison, the calculated linear and 2D spectra using ft = 12.3 cm-1 and 6 = 52°, which correspond to an a-helical structure (see the contour plot Fig. 19) for the isotopomer Ala -Ala-Ala are shown in Figure 21. The observed spectra for Ala -Ala-Ala are strikingly different from the calculated spectra for a molecule in an a-helical conformation. We emphasize here an important point In contrast to the NMR results on oligo(Ala), in which averaging of different backbone conformations might be present because measurements are made on a time scale that is slow compared to that of conformational motions, these vibrational spectroscopy results are detected on a very fast time scale (Hamm et al, 1999 Woutersen and Hamm, 2000, 2001). This rules out conformational averaging. 

The various spectroscopic techniques had revealed that Ti4+ ions in TS-1, Ti-beta and, Ti-MCM-41 are 4-coordinate in the dehydrated state. Tetrapodal Ti(OSi)4 and tripodal Ti(OH)(OSi)3 are the main Ti species. Upon exposure to H20, NH3, H202, or TBHP, they increase their coordination number to 5 or 6. On samples in which the Ti4+ has been grafted onto the silica (referred to as Ti f MCM-41), a dipodal Ti species (Ti(OH)2(OSi)2) may also be present. As a result of interaction with the oxidant ROOH (R = H, alkyl), the formation of 7)1- and p2-peroxo (Ti-O-O-), hydroperoxo (Ti-OOH), and superoxo (Ti02 ) species has been observed experimentally (Section III). A linear correlation between the concentration of the p2-hydroperoxo species and the catalytic activity for propene epoxidation has also been noted from vibration spectroscopy (133). 

Figure 8.14 High-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS) and low-energy electron diffraction of CO adsorbed on a Rh(l 11) surface, along with structure models. The HREELS spectra show the C-O and metal-CO stretch vibrations of linear and threefold CO on rhodium (from R.Linke etal. [56]).

Vibration spectroscopy is also able to measure the concentration of ion radicals (by estimation of the band intensities). Moreover, the IR intensities of some bands in the fingerprint region for organic ion radicals may be much larger than the intensities of the bands for the neutral parent molecules. The examples are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or linear polyenes and their ion radicals. The vibration patterns of the intensity-carrying modes are closely related to the electronic structure of the ion radicals (Torii et al. 1999 and references therein). 

More recently, the PCM has been amply extended to the treatment of vibrational spectroscopies, by taking into account not only solvent-induced vibrational frequency shifts, but also vibrational intensities in a unified and coherent formulation. Thus, models to treat IR [8], Raman [9], IR linear dichroism [10], VCD [11] and VROA [12] have been proposed and tested, by including in the formulation local field effects, as well as an incomplete solute-solvent regime (nonequilibrium) and, when necessary, by extending the model to the treatment of specific solute-solvent (or solute-solute) effects. 

If ultrafast nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy [1-3] has recently developed into an important tool providing original informations on the dynamics of weak hydrogen bonds (H-bonds), the simpler linear infrared (IR) vs(X—H) absorption spectroscopy spectra remains, however, to be an important method for the understanding of this dynamics. Considerable experimental and theoretical works have been done in this last field [4—17]. 

A new class of binuclear nitrido complexes of tetravalent osmium and ruthenium is described in which the metal atoms are symmetrically bridged by a nitride ligand to give a linear M-N—M unit They have the stoichiometries M2NX8(H20)2]3 and [M2N(NH3)8Y2]3+ (M = Os, Ru X = Cl, Br Y = Cl, Br, etc.). Studies are reported on their vibrational spectra, structures, and bonding. Preliminary studies are reported also on trinuclear complexes of osmium and iridium. Finally, the use of vibrational spectroscopy in the study of metal-nitrido and metal-oxo complexes is discussed briefly. 

In recent years there has been significant interest in the extension of nonlinear optical spectroscopy to higher orders involving multiple time and/or frequency variables. The development of these multidimensional techniques is motivated by the desire to probe the microscopic details of a system that are obscured by the ensemble averaging inherent in linear spectroscopy. Much of the recent work to extend time domain vibrational spectroscopy to higher dimensionality has involved the use of nonresonant Raman-based techniques. The use of Raman techniques has followed directly from the rapid advancements in ultrafast laser technology for the visible and near-IR portions of the spectrum. Time domain nonresonant Raman spectroscopy provides access to an extremely... 

Vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy (VSFS) is a second-order non-linear optical technique that can directly measure the vibrational spectrum of molecules at an interface. Under the dipole approximation, this second-order non-linear optical technique is uniquely suited to the study of surfaces because it is forbidden in media possessing inversion symmetry. At the interface between two centrosymmetric media there is no inversion centre and sum-frequency generation is allowed. Thus the asynunetric nature of the interface allows a selectivity for interfacial properties at a molecular level that is not inherent in other, linear, surface vibrational spectroscopies such as infrared or Raman spectroscopy. VSFS is related to the more common but optically simpler second harmonic generation process in which both beams are of the same fixed frequency and is also surface-specific. 

While vibrational spectroscopy is a well-known method of determining the structures of stable compounds, new techniques open up new possibilities of also analyzing unstable species. In analogy to 0=C=0, which is discussed in Section 4.2.2.2.2, the isoelectronic unstable species HN=C-NH was studied by FTIR methods. The two CN stretching vibrations are similar to those of CO2 i aj(CN) = 2104.70 cm i/j(CN) = 1285 cm (Birk and Winnewisser, 1986). An unstable carbon oxide, the linear species 0=C=C=C=C=C=0, was also investigated in the gas-phase (Holland et al., 1988) and as a matrix isolated species (Maier et al., 1988). 

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