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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Structures and Conformations of Non-Rigid Molecules
  title info:
    title: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Reisensburg, Germany, September 6-10,1992
  name:
    name part: Laane, Jaan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Dakkouri, Marwan.
  name:
    name part: Veken, Ben.
  name:
    name part: Oberhammer, Heinz.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Conference proceedings.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (656 pages)
  abstract: From the beginnings of modern chemistry, molecular structure has been a lively area of research and speculation. For more than half a century spectroscopy and other methods have been available to characterize the structures and shapes of molecules, particularly those that are rigid. However, most molecules are at least to some degree non-rigid and this non-rigidity plays an important role in such diverse areas as biological activity, energy transfer, and chemical reactivity. In addition, the large-amplitude vibrations present in non-rigid molecules give rise to unusual low-energy vibrational level patterns which have a dramatic effect on the thermodynamic properties of these systems. Only in recent years has a coherent picture of the energetics and dynamics of the conformational changes inherent in non-rigid (and semi-rigid) molecules begun to emerge. Advances have been made in a number of different experimental areas: vibrational (infrared and Raman) spectroscopy, rotational (microwave) spectroscopy, electron diffraction, and, most recently, laser techniques probing both the ground and excited electronic states. Theoretically, the proliferation of powerful computers coupled with scientific insight has allowed both empirical and ab initio methods to increase our understanding of the forces responsible for the structures and energies of non-rigid systems. The development of theory (group theoretical methods and potential energy surfaces) to understand the unique characteristics of the spectra of these floppy molecules has also been necessary to reach our present level of understanding. The thirty chapters in this volume contributed by the key speakers at the Workshop are divided over the various areas. Both vibrational and rotational spectroscopy have been effective at determining the potential energy surfaces for non-rigid molecules, often in a complementary manner. Recent laser fluorescence work has extended these types of studies to electronic excited states. Elec…
  note: edited by Jaan Laane, Marwan Dakkouri, Ben Veken, Heinz Oberhammer.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Molecular structure
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Molecular spectroscopy
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Molecular spectroscopy
  subject:
    topic: Molecular structure
  classification: QD461
  classification: 541.2/2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: NATO ASI series. 410
      part number: Series C
      part name: Mathematical and physical sciences
  identifier: 9789401120746 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401120749 (electronic bk.)
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  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422222933.2
    record identifier: in00003542796
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng