Spectroscopic Techniques and Hindered Molecular Motion
Features
- Presents a united method of studying the hindered molecular motion (HMM) in crystals by common spectroscopic techniques
- Expanding the methodology of the scientific research and the power of theoretical and experimental techniques—fundamental, but comprehensive
- Devoted further progress in liquid and solid crystals research
- Examines the importance of good theory in experimental practice
Summary
Spectroscopic Techniques and Hindered Molecular Motion presents a united, theoretical approach to studying classical local thermal motion of small molecules and molecular fragments in crystals by spectroscopic techniques. Mono- and polycrystalline case studies demonstrate performance validity.
The book focuses on small molecules and molecular fragments, such as N2, HCl, CO2, CH4, H2O, NH4, BeF4, NH3, CH2, CH3, C6H6, SF6, and other symmetrical atomic formations, which exhibit local hindered motion in molecular condensed media: molecular and ionic crystals, molecular liquids, liquid crystals, polymeric solids, and biological objects. It reviews the state of studying the hindered molecular motion (HMM) phenomenon and the experimental works on the basis of the latest theoretical research.
Case Studies
- Physical models of hindered molecular motion
- General solution of the stochastic problem for the hindered molecular motion in crystals
- Formulae of the angular autocorrelation function symmetrized on the crystallographic point symmetry groups
- Formulae of the spectral line shapes concerning the dielectric, infrared, Raman, nuclear magnetic relaxation, and neutron scattering spectroscopy in the presence of the hindered molecular motion
- Experimental probation of the theoretical outcomes
- Proton relaxation in three-atomic molecular fragments undergoing axial symmetry hindered motion
- Structural distortion in the ordered phase of crystalline ammonium chloride
Organic compounds, polymers, pharmaceutical products, and biological systems consist of the molecular fragments, which possess rotational or conformational degrees of freedom or an atomic exchange within the fragments. Liquid crystals present a menagerie of substances for which orientational ordering shows special significance. Knowledge of the laws of molecular motion stimulates growing new crystals and synthesizing new substances with the desired properties. Although this book does not exhaust all varieties of scientific and engineering problems, it is a fundamental and comprehensive resource and catalyst for further HMM research.
Table of Contents
Fundamentals of the Theory of Hindered Molecular Motion
The basis of the angular autocorrelation function technique
The autocorrelation functions adapted to the rotational diffusion model and the model of fixed angular jumps.
The General Solution of the Hindered Molecular Motion Problem
The extended angular jump model
Solution of the hindered molecular motion problem
The Autocorrelation Functions Adapted to the Extended Angular Jump Model
The general form
The explicit form of autocorrelation functions of the first rank
The explicit form of the autocorrelation functions of arbitrary rank
Discussion
Dielectric and Optical Spectroscopy Application
Frequency domain dielectric spectroscopy
The shape of polarized infrared absorption spectroscopy lines
The shape of Rayleigh and Raman light scattering
Discussion and comparison with the experiment
Application to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spin-Lattice Relaxation
The fundamentals of the nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation
Nuclear magnetic relaxation in molecular fragments undergoing hindered motion adapted to point symmetry groups of the cubic system
Experimental study and theoretical discussion of the proton relaxation in crystalline ammonium chloride
Relaxation of protons and deuterons in polycrystalline ammonium chloride
On the magnetic relaxation of deuterons in single crystalline deuterated ammonium chloride
Proton magnetic resonance relaxation in molecular fragments undergoing axial symmetry hindered motion
Incoherent Neutron Scattering Application
Basis of the theory of incoherent neutron scattering
Function of the incoherent neutron scattering
Discussion and comparison with the experiment
References
Author Bio(s)
Dr. Ferid Bashirov
Education: Ph.D. in Physics of Magnetic Phenomena in 1972 and Doctor of Sciences in Condensed Matter Physics in 2006 at Kazan State University, Russia (later renamed Kazan Federal University)
Professional Activity: Lecturer for General Physics and Chair of the Teaching Laboratory for Electricity and Magnetism at Kazan Federal University, Lecturer for Physics at the University of Oran (Republic of Algeria, 1975-1978), and the University of Conakry (Republic of Guinea, 1998-2010).
Research interest: Dynamical and structural studying of condensed molecular media (both experimental and theoretical) by spectroscopic techniques such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxation, Dielectric Relaxation, Incoherent Neutron Scattering, Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy.
Scientific and technical contribution:
- Manufacturing the coherent pulsed NMR-spectrometer of high performance for laboratory purposes
- Growing single-crystals from aqueous solution
- Discovering the tetragonal distortion of the crystal structure by studying the anisotropic properties of proton magnetic spin-lattice relaxation in the ordered phase of cubic ammonium chloride
- Inventing the extended angular jump model for the hindered molecular motion
- Developing the theory of the hindered molecular motion united for single crystals, polycrystals and liquids (advanced HMM-theory)
- Developing the spectroscopic technique application of the advanced HMM-theory
Publicity:
He took part in International Scientific Meetings: Congress AMPERE-1994 (Kazan, Russia), International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy ICORS-1996 (Pitts burg, Pennsylvania, USA), Nuclear and Electron Relaxation Workshop - 1997 (Piza, Italy), Congress AMPERE-1998 (Berlin, Germany), Collogue AMPERE-1999 (Vilnius, Lithuania), International Conference on Quasielastic Neurton Scattering QENS-2004 (Arcachon, France), and International Conference PLM MP-2005 (Kiev, Ukraine). His scientific and teaching publications consist of 105 items.
