1. Consider the molecule, iodine pentafluoride, IF5 a) What is the point group of IF5? b) Find a reducible representation covering all translational, rotational, and vibrational modes of IF5. (Hint: Your character for the identity should be 18) c) Reduce this representation into the irreducible components and use a character table to divide the irreducible representations up into rotational, translational, and vibrational symmetries. d) Which vibrational modes will be IR active?

1. Consider the molecule, iodine pentafluoride, IF5 a) What is the point group of IF5? b) Find a reducible representation covering all translational, rotational, and vibrational modes of IF5. (Hint: Your character for the identity should be 18) c) Reduce this representation into the irreducible components and use a character table to divide the irreducible representations up into rotational, translational, and vibrational symmetries. d) Which vibrational modes will be IR active?

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Chapter15: Introduction To Electronic Spectroscopy And Structure

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Problem 15.2E: Linearly polarized light can be assigned a specific irreducible representation of a symmetry point...

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