Inorganic Compounds Spectroscopy (CHEM 329)

Introduction: characterization of electromagnetic radiation, quantization of energy, regions of spectrum, representation of spectrum, basic elements of practical spectroscopy, signal-to-noise, resolving power, width and intensity of spectral lines. Microwave spectroscopy: rotation of molecules, rotational spectra, diatomic molecules. Infra-red spectroscopy: vibrating diatomic molecule, diatomic vibrating rotator, vibration-rotation spectrum of carbon monoxide, breakdown of the BornOppenheimer approximation, interaction of rotations andvibrations. Electronic spectroscopy of atoms: structure of atoms, electronic angular momentum, multi-electron atoms, angular momentum of multi-electron atoms. Spin resonance spectroscopy: spin and applied field, nuclear magnetic spectroscopy, electron magnetic spectroscopy. Group Theory: Molecular symmetry and the symmetry groups, symmetry point groups, representation of groups, applications.