Water spectra vibration

The secondary structure of proteins may also be assessed using vibrational spectroscopy, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Raman spectroscopy both provide information on the secondary structure of proteins. The bulk of the literature using vibrational spectroscopy to study protein structure has involved the use of FTIR. Water produces vibrational bands that interfere with the bands associated with proteins. For this reason, most of the FTIR literature focuses on the use of this technique to assess structure in the solid state or in the presence of non-aqueous environments. Recently, differential FTIR has been used in which a water background is subtracted from the FTIR spectrum. This workaround is limited to solutions containing relatively high protein concentrations. 

In the absence of water, typical vibrational frequencies were found for the protonated zeolite but an unanticipated degree of heterogeneity was also discovered. With the addition of one water molecule per Bronsted site, single-load, the ZSM-5 spectrum was considerably modified and strongly resembled earlier work on mordenite. The interpretation of this spectrum was, however, quite different fi-om the previous work and lead to its reassessment. A difference spectrum showing only the INS of water was compared with the results of two calculated spectra based on either a H-bonded water molecule or a HsO. The comparison clearly favours the H-bonded water molecule model and the presence of hydroxonium ions was discounted. 

Connection of Transverse Vibration (TV) with Water Spectrum... 

We consider a two-fraction (mixed) model comprising the librational (LIB) and vibrational (VIB) states illustrated by Fig. 1. We shall show that consideration of the LIB and VIB states enables the calculation of the water spectrum, as well as that of ice, irrespective of the nature of these states. 

In this section we calculate the water spectrum in the range 0-1000 cm-1. This calculation is based on an analytical theory elaborated in 2005-2006 with the addition of a new criterion (38), related to the 50-cm 1 band in the low-frequency Raman spectrum. The calculation scheme was briefly described in Section II. One of our goals is to compare the spectra of liquid H20 and D20 and the relevant parameters of the model. Particularly, we consider the isotopic shift of the complex permittivity/absorption spectra and the terahertz (THz) spectra of both fluids. Additionally, in Appendix II we take into account the coupling of two modes, pertinent to elastically vibrating HB molecules. 

The fluorescence spectrum of a protein (Figure 2.24) excited with 285 nm light shows a small Raman band around 318 nm coming from the solvent water. What vibrational band does this correspond to ... 

In contrast, it is a weak Raman scatterer and it is recommended to consider Raman spectroscopy as an analytical alternative for aqueous solutions. Care has to be taken, however, with the NIR-Raman FT-technique (1064 nm/9398 cm ), because, owing to the absorption of the water-overtone vibration at about 7000 cm the Raman spectrum maybe modified relative to the VIS-laser excited Raman spectrum [44]. 

We now present one of the many examples of interfacial vibrational spectroscopy using SFG. Figure Bl.5.15 shows the surface vibrational spectrum of the water/air interface at a temperature of 40 °C [83]. Notice that... 

Figure 5-10 Partial MM3 Output as Related to the Vibrational Spectrum of H2O. The experimental values of the two sti etching and one bending frequencies of water are 3756, 3657, and 1595 cm. The IR intensities are all very strong (vs).

Polyatomic molecules vibrate in a very complicated way, but, expressed in temis of their normal coordinates, atoms or groups of atoms vibrate sinusoidally in phase, with the same frequency. Each mode of motion functions as an independent hamionic oscillator and, provided certain selection rules are satisfied, contributes a band to the vibrational spectr um. There will be at least as many bands as there are degrees of freedom, but the frequencies of the normal coordinates will dominate the vibrational spectrum for simple molecules. An example is water, which has a pair of infrared absorption maxima centered at about 3780 cm and a single peak at about 1580 cm (nist webbook). 

Anhydrous quinazoline hydrochloride absorbs one molecule of water readily, and. the product is difficult to dehydrate completely even in a high vacuum at 60°. Infrared spectral data suggest that this water is covalently bound because of (o) the absence of several bands in the spectrum of the hydrate which are present in the spectrum of the anhydrous hydrochloride and (6) the presence of extra bands at 1474 and 1240 cm that have been attributed to C— H and O— H bending vibrations of the — CHOH group. 

Plutonium(IV) polymer has been examined by infrared spectroscopy (26). One of the prominent features in the infrared spectrum of the polymer is an intense band in the OH stretching region at 3400 cm 1. Upon deuteration, this band shifts to 2400 cm 1. However, it could not be positively assigned to OH vibrations in the polymer due to absorption of water by the KBr pellet. In view of the broad band observed in this same region for I, it now seems likely that the bands observed previously for Pu(IV) polymer are actually due to OH in the polymer. Indeed, we have observed a similar shift in the sharp absorption of U(0H)2S0ir upon deuteration (28). This absorption shifts from 3500 cm 1 to 2600 cm 1. 

The case of water is particularly convenient because the required high Ka states may be detected in the solar absorption spectrum. However, it is difficult to observe the necessary high vibrational angular momentum states in molecules, which can only be probed by dispersed fluorescence or stimulated emission techniques. On the other hand, it is now possible to perform converged variational calculations on accurate potential energy surfaces, from which one could hope to verify the quantum monodromy and assess the extent to which it is disturbed by perturbations with other modes. Examples of such computed monodromy are seen for H2O in Fig. 2 and LiCN in Fig. 12. 

The fourth-order coherent Raman spectrum of a liquid surface was observed by Fujiyoshi et al. [28]. The same authors later reported a spectrum with an improved signal-to-noise ratio and different angle of incidence [27]. A water solution of oxazine 170 dye was placed in air and irradiated with light pulses. The SH generation at the oxazine solution was extensively studied by Steinhurst and Owrutsky [24]. The pump and probe wavelength was tuned at 630 nm to be resonant with the one-photon electronic transition of the dye. The probability of the Raman transition to generate the vibrational coherence is enhanced by the resonance. The efficiency of SH generation is also enhanced. 

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