Molecular symmetry in physics and chemistry describes the symmetry present in molecules and the classification of molecules according to their symmetry. Molecular...
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Diatomic molecules (from Greek di- 'two') are molecules composed of only two atoms, of the same or different chemical elements. If a diatomic molecule...
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molecular symmetry describes the symmetry present in molecules and the classification of these molecules according to their symmetry. Molecular symmetry is a...
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Molecular orbital (section σ symmetry)
(centrosymmetric molecules) there are additional labels of symmetry that can be applied to molecular orbitals. Centrosymmetric molecules include: Homonuclear...
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Parity (physics) (redirect from P-symmetry)
center of mass). This includes all homonuclear diatomic molecules as well as certain symmetric molecules such as ethylene, benzene, xenon tetrafluoride...
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Molecular orbital diagram (redirect from Diatomic molecular orbital diagram)
redistributed among the orbitals. This tool is very well suited for simple diatomic molecules such as dihydrogen, dioxygen, and carbon monoxide but becomes more...
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Sigma bond (section Polyatomic molecules)
axis. Sigma bonding is most simply defined for diatomic molecules using the language and tools of symmetry groups. In this formal approach, a σ-bond is...
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to the case of homonuclear diatomic molecules, or other symmetric molecules with an inversion centre. For heteronuclear diatomic molecules, the u/g symbol...
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heteronuclear diatomic molecules, but the selection rules governing transitions are different. Since the electric dipole moment of the homonuclear diatomics is zero...
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Dihydrogen cation (redirect from Hydrogen Molecule Ion)
produce the ion.[citation needed] Symmetry of diatomic molecules Dirac Delta function model (one-dimensional version of H+ 2) Di-positronium Euler's three-body...
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The spectrum of a particular molecule is governed by the selection rules of quantum chemistry and by its molecular symmetry. Some molecules have simple...
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Chemical polarity (redirect from Polar molecules)
other out by symmetry. Polar molecules interact through dipole-dipole intermolecular forces and hydrogen bonds. Polarity underlies a number of physical properties...
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Molecular vibration (redirect from Vibrating molecule)
corresponding to wavenumbers of approximately 300 to 3000 cm−1 and wavelengths of approximately 30 to 3 μm. For a diatomic molecule A−B, the vibrational frequency...
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Vibronic spectroscopy (section Diatomic molecules)
spectra of diatomic molecules have been analysed in detail; emission spectra are more complicated than absorption spectra. The intensity of allowed vibronic...
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Rotational spectroscopy (section Linear molecules)
moment of inertia of the molecule, and, knowing the atomic masses, can be used to determine the bond length directly. For diatomic molecules this process...
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Abiogenesis (redirect from Prebiotic molecules)
These molecules were not present on early Earth, but other amphiphilic long-chain molecules also form membranes. These bodies may expand by insertion of additional...
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Rotational partition function (category Equations of physics)
rotational energy of a linear rigid rotor is k B T {\displaystyle k_{\text{B}}T} . For a diatomic molecule with a center of symmetry, such as H 2 , N 2...
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Rigid rotor (redirect from Rotating molecule)
requiring only two angles to describe, for example of a diatomic molecule. More general molecules are 3-dimensional, such as water (asymmetric rotor)...
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Debye (category Centimetre–gram–second system of units)
moments for simple diatomic molecules are in the range of 0 to 11 D. Molecules with symmetry point groups or containing inversion symmetry will not have a...
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David DeMille (category Fellows of the American Physical Society)
and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He is best known for his use of polar diatomic molecules to search for symmetry-violating effects...
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Sir John Lennard-Jones with the description of bonding in the diatomic molecules of the first main row of the periodic table, but had been used earlier...
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describe the shapes of molecules according to their point group symmetry. Group theory also enables factoring and simplification of theoretical calculations...
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structure of molecules using quantum mechanics. It was proposed early in the 20th century. In molecular orbital theory, electrons in a molecule are not...
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Octaazacubane (category Allotropes of nitrogen)
of nitrogen with formula N8, whose molecules have eight atoms arranged into a cube. (By comparison, nitrogen usually occurs as the diatomic molecule N2...
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heteronuclear diatomic molecules. It shows the so-called P and R branches. The Q branch, located at the vibration frequency, is absent. Symmetric top molecules display...
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Homochirality (redirect from Mirror-symmetry breaking)
his Baltimore Lecture of 1884. Kelvin used the term homochirality as a relationship between two molecules, i.e. two molecules are homochiral if they...
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RNA world (category Origin of life)
the beginning of life are: Self-replication The ability to self-replicate or synthesize other RNA molecules; relatively short RNA molecules that can synthesize...
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conical intersection comes from this observation. In diatomic molecules, the number of vibrational degrees of freedom is 1. Without the necessary two dimensions...
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Buckminsterfullerene (redirect from Buckyball (molecule))
energy width of the band of molecular levels responsible for green light absorption by individual C60 molecules. Thus individual molecules transmit some...
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homonuclear diatomic molecules, the index g or u denotes the existence of a center of symmetry (or inversion center) and indicates the symmetry of the vibronic...
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