JCE Online Journal of Chemical Education
 | Subscriptions  | Software Orders  | Support  | Contributors  | Advertisers  | 

JCE Print

JCE Digital Library

JCE Software

Only@JCE Online

About JCE


  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > December  >
Research: Science and Education
Trigonometric Basis Set Functions: Their Application to the C-H Stretching and Deformation Motions of Benzene and to Orbital Symmetry
G. Bor
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland

Sidney F. A. Kettle
School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

Cover
December 1999
Vol. 76 No. 12
p. 1723

Abstract
The unifying power of the use of trigonometric basis functions in group character tables is demonstrated. Additionally, these functions provide a simple way of generating pictures of symmetry coordinates. This is illustrated for the in-plane stretch and out-of-plane deformation motions of the C-H bonds in benzene. Their application to orbital symmetry applications is also indicated.
More Information
*  Citation
Bor, G.; Kettle, Sidney F. A. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 1723.
*  Keywords
Group Theory; Molecular Modeling / Dynamics; Stereochemistry; Molecular Properties / Structure
*  History
Created:
Last Updated:
November 10, 1999
June 23, 2005
  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999 > December > Page 1723


Subscriptions

JCE HS CLIC

Our Secondary School editors work hard to distill all the JCE materials to produce a fraction of particular interest to high school teachers. We call it CLIC.


Contributions Welcome
JCE welcomes your submission

Advertisers
In recent years we have worked hard to better match our advertisers with our readers. When shopping for chemistry education materials, visit our advertisers' WWW sites first.

Be An Ambassador
Take JCE along on your outreach missions. Copies of the Journal, guest access to JCE Online, our publications catalog, and more are available for your participants.