THE ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY

By LINDA RODRIGUEZ

CONTENTS SYMMETRY ELEMENTS AND SYMMETRY OPERATIONS: MOLECULAR SYMMETRY INTRODUCTION MOLECULAR SYMMETRY: IN NON-MATHEMATICAL AND GEOMETRICAL SENSE SYMMETRY OPERATIONS AND SYMMETRY ELEMENTS NAMING SYSTEMS OF NOTATION FOR SYMMETRY OPERATIONS/ ELEMENTS PROPER AXIS OF SYMMETRY PLANE OF SYMMETRY CENTER OF SYMMETRY/INVERSION CENTER ROTATION–REFLECTION AXIS OR AXIS OF IMPROPER ROTATIONS IDENTITY EXERCISES MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS APPLICATION OF GROUP THEORY TO ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY ELECTRONIC SPECTRA OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS ALLOWED AND FORBIDDEN TRANSITION: PREDICTION THROUGH GROUP THEORY VIBRONIC COUPLING CHARGE TRANSFER SPECTRA IN SIMPLE AND COORDINATION COMPOUNDS ELECTRONIC SPECTRA OF TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES DETERMINATION OF TTRMS OR TERM SYMBOLS ASSIGNMENT OF TERM SYMBOLS OF DIFFERENT ATOMS TERMS FOR ATOMS HAVING MORE THAN ONE ELECTRON HUND’S RULES: DETERMINATION OF GROUND STATE TERMS FOR MANY ELECTRON ATOMS/IONS HOLE FORMULATION: TERM SYMBOLS FOR PN AND P6-N AND DN AND D10-N CONFIGURATIONS SYMMETRY SPECIES OF TERMS SPLITTING OF TERMS: STEP TO ARRIVE TO ORGEL DIAGRAMS HOW TO DECIDE THE GROUND STATE IN GROUP THEORETICAL TERMS AS MULLIKEN SYMBOLS IN CUBIC FIELD? TETRAHEDRAL COMPLEXES WITH D1 AND D9 ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATIONS OCTAHEDRAL COMPLEXES WITH D4 AND D6 ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATIONS ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATIONS OCTAHEDRAL COMPLEXES WITH D3, D7 AND TD COMPLEXES WITH D2, D3, D7, D8 ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATIONS OCTAHEDRAL COMPLEXES WITH D5 ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION EFFECT OF JAHN-TELLER DISTORTION ON ELECTRONIC SPECTRA OF COMPLEXES CORRELATION DIAGRAM: ORDERING OF ENERGY STATES CORRELATION DIAGRAM AND HOLE FORMALISM USES OF CORRELATION DIAGRAMS TANABE-SUGANO CORRELATION DIAGRAM VARIATION IN RACAH PARAMETER B: NEPHELAUXETIC SERIES EVALUATION OF DQ, B? AND ? PARAMETERS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS/FILL IN THE BLANKS MOLECULAR SYMMETRY AND GROUP THEORY TO VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY GENERATION OF REDUCIBLE REPRESENTATION SYMMETRY SELECTION RULES FOR IR AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY: IDENTIFICATION OF IR AND RAMAN ACTIVE VIBRATIONS COMPLEMENTARY NATURE OF IR AND RAMAN SPECTRA THE MUTUAL EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE/RULE POLARIZATION OF RAMAN LINES PREDICTION OF IR AND RAMAN ACTIVE MODES IN SOME MOLECULES OF DIFFERENT POINT GROUPS COMPLICATIONS IN IR AND RAMAN SPECTRA AND DIFFICULTIES IN ASSIGNMENTS OVERTONES, COMBINATION BAND, HOT BANDS AND FERMI RESONANCE OVERTONES METHOD FOR FINDING OVERTONES FOR DEGENERATE VIBRATIONAL MODES COMBINATION BANDS HOT BANDS FERMI RESONANCE ASCENT-DESCENT OR GROUP–SUBGROUP IN SYMMETRY: INTERPRETATION OF SPECTRAL DATA IR AND RAMAN SPECTRA OF LINEAR MOLECULES INSPECTION METHOD SUBGROUP METHOD INTEGRATION METHOD STRUCTURAL DIAGNOSIS: APPLICATION OF INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTRA PREDICTING /FITTING STRUCTURE/GEOMETRY OF MOLECULE PREDICTION OF COORDINATION SITES AND LINKAGE ISOMERISM DENTICITY ASSIGNMENT FOR ANIONIC LIGANDS GEOMETRICAL ISOMERS: DISTINCTION METAL CARBONYLS: STRUCTURAL ELUCIDATION MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS/FILL IN THE BLANK CHEMICAL REACTIONS: ORBITAL SYMMETRY RULES CHEMICAL REACTIONS: SYMMETRY RULES INORGANIC/ORGANIC REACTIONS: SYMMETRY CONSIDERATIONS NUCLEOPHILIC DISPLACEMENT REACTIONS BERRY’S PSEUDOROTATION: ORBITAL SYMMETRY CONTROL CORRELATION DIAGRAMS: PREDICTION OF ORBITAL SYMMETRY ALLOWEDNESS FOR BERRY’S PSEUDOROTATION STABLE SHAPE OF THE MOLECULES: SYMMETRY RULES SYMMETRY CONTROLLED PERICYCLIC REACTIONS CLASSES OF PERICYCLIC REACTIONS INTERPRETATION OF PERICYCLIC REACTIONS: DIFFERENT APPROACHES WOODWARD–HOFFMANN APPROACH SYMMETRY ALLOWED AND SYMMETRY FORBIDDEN REACTIONS IN PERICYCLIC REACTIONS CONSERVATION OF ORBITAL SYMMETRY CONROTATORY AND DISROTATORY WAYS OF MOVEMENT IN PERICYCLIC REACTION ?, ? AND ? ORBITALS AND ELECTRONS COMPONENTS IN PERICYCLIC REACTIONS MECHANISTIC INTERPRETATION OF SOME PERICYCLIC REACTIONS WITH SYMMETRY PROPERTY FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITAL APPROACH: INTERPRETATION OF PERICYCLIC REACTIONS WOODWARD AND HOFFMANN’S RULES AND FMO APPROACH: ELECTROCYCLIC REACTIONS ON THE BASIS OF COMPONENTS EXCERCISES APPENDIX-I APPENDIX-II APPENDIX-III