Full Description
The properties of chemical, pharmaceutical, and biological compounds depend mainly on their molecular structure, whose determination is of fundamental interest. This book examines and systematizes more than three hundred striking structural determinations of free molecules. Featuring high-quality structural data and presenting modern techniques of their determinations by quantum chemistry, high-resolution spectroscopy and electron diffraction, the book is an indispensable resource for graduate students and professional scientists specializing in structural chemistry and other related fields.
Contents
Introduction.- Quantum Chemical Methods.- Rovibrational Spectroscopy and Structure of Diatomic Molecules.- Rotational Constants of a Polyatomic Molecule.- Equilibrium Structures of Semirigid Molecules from the Rotational Constants.- Structure of Nonrigid Molecules by Spectroscopic Methods.- Equilibrium Molecular Structure as Determined by Gas-phase Electron Diffraction.- Other Methods, Mainly for the X-H bond (X = C, N, O).- Database with Equilibrium Structures of Free Molecules.
