Molecular Symmetry: Problems and Solutions

U.C. Agarwala | H.L. Nigam | Sudha Agrawal | Category: Chemistry

Book Details

ISBN: 9789384370138
YOP: 2018
Pages: 326

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Molecular symmetry studies have been very important in unraveling the structure and bonding properties of chemical compounds butthese necessarily require grasping ideas with mathematical rigour. Solving related problems would positively catalyse students’ thinkingto appreciate the intricacies and complexities inherent in the subject.
Molecular Symmetry through Problems & Solutions is designed on this base model. It aims to guide students’ understanding of a difficult subject by leading through a series of problems and solutions increasing in complexity at regular intervals. The book, hence,presents the subject of Molecular Symmetry through a question – answer format that is supplemented by figures, structures, and illustration to support the comprehension of the students.

1. Introduction
2. Molecular Symmetry Elements and their Symmetry Operations
3. Products of Symmetry-Operations (Multiplication Tables) and Other Related Concepts
4. Point Groups – Sub Groups Classes and Other Related Properties
5. Representation of Point Groups
6. irreducible Representations, their Properties and the Great Orthogo-nality Theorem Character Tables
7. Direct Products and Vanishing Integral
8. Eye For Judging of Understanding Symmetry
Appendices

Molecular symmetry studies have been very important in unraveling the structure and bonding properties of chemical compounds butthese necessarily require grasping ideas with mathematical rigour. Solving related problems would positively catalyse students’ thinkingto appreciate the intricacies and complexities inherent in the subject.
Molecular Symmetry through Problems & Solutions is designed on this base model. It aims to guide students’ understanding of a difficult subject by leading through a series of problems and solutions increasing in complexity at regular intervals. The book, hence,presents the subject of Molecular Symmetry through a question – answer format that is supplemented by figures, structures, and illustration to support the comprehension of the students.

1. Introduction
2. Molecular Symmetry Elements and their Symmetry Operations
3. Products of Symmetry-Operations (Multiplication Tables) and Other Related Concepts
4. Point Groups – Sub Groups Classes and Other Related Properties
5. Representation of Point Groups
6. irreducible Representations, their Properties and the Great Orthogo-nality Theorem Character Tables
7. Direct Products and Vanishing Integral
8. Eye For Judging of Understanding Symmetry
Appendices