Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Character table download + A little flow chart for point groups!




Link for a zip file with a flowchart and tables:

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http://a-r-d.me/storage/flowchart.pdf
http://a-r-d.me/storage/appendix_iia.pdf

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Part 10: C2v through bond reducible representation Group Theory IR vibrational modes

In this video I do a reducible representation of a C2v molecule of the bonds only to show the vibrational modes that each bond is contributing to the irreducible representation.

Part 9: Solving D3h point group continued. Using group theory to find number of IR and Raman bands.

I will post up the reducible representations later!

Part 8: D3h point group theory problem for inorganic chemistry, IR and Raman stretching solved

In this video I first find a reducible representation of a trigonal bipyramidal geometry molecule then reduce it down to the reducible representation.

In the next video I finish the problem.


Part 7: Example Group Theory C3v point group Irreducible Representation IR stretching bands

Here is an easy C3v molecule that is solved out from a reducible representation to an irreducible representation.

The molecule is a Ni- tetracarbonyl compound that is in a trigonal-pyramidal formation, which is actually not how this molecule should look in nature (it should really be a tetrahedral compound).

In the future I will do longer problems!!!




Part 6: Picking Point Groups using Character Tables and Group Theory

In this video I talk about how to find point groups using the flow chart method.

Basic Formula:
1) Rule out low symmetry
2) Rule out High symmetry
3) Based on the rotation axes decide on C or D family, and find the primary rotation axis.
4) pick appropriate C or D subgroup.