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178 3 Vihmtional <strong>Spect</strong>ra ITS CI Probe of Structural Order<br />

Table 3-3. Frequencies, bandwidths (full widths at half inaxiriiumi and reorieiitntioiiizl-rel~ixalion<br />

times of d- of propane-dh, butane-d6 and pentane-dl,] as a function of temperature.<br />

Temperature A1'1,2(d-) s(RE0RIENT) d-<br />

iK) (cm-') (cm-l) x 1012 s<br />

CD3CH:CD? 101<br />

177<br />

235<br />

288<br />

300<br />

CD1 CHzCH2 CD3 135<br />

185<br />

231<br />

300<br />

CD3CD2CH2CD2CD3 143<br />

191<br />

240<br />

300<br />

2919.0 15.7<br />

3920.5 24.8<br />

2925.0 70.0<br />

2923.5 79.0<br />

2896.5 15.0<br />

2896.5 24.2<br />

2899.5 40.0<br />

2898.0 65.0<br />

2896.5 18.1<br />

2898.0 20.1<br />

2899.5 24,s<br />

2901.0 30.9<br />

1.3<br />

0.58<br />

0. I7<br />

0.15<br />

1.7<br />

0.66<br />

0 33<br />

0.1s<br />

1.2<br />

0.93<br />

0.67<br />

0.48<br />

temperature and chain length. The threshold temperature at which for a given<br />

chain length coupled rotations and torsion are able to generate conformational<br />

kinks in a more or less nonequilibrium structure (either pinned at a given site or<br />

mobile along the chain) remains an unsolved problem faced by many authors<br />

who tackled the problem by numerical simulations [ 1481.<br />

5. For the short-chain models it has been found that, by increasing the temperature<br />

(i.e., when the coupling between rotations and torsions increases), the frequency<br />

of d- increases consistently by a few wavenumbers (see Table 3-3); this suggests<br />

that either the diagonal or off-diagonal force constants within each CH2 unit<br />

change when the niolecule is (even slightly) conformationally distorted or the<br />

onset of torsional distortions activates iiitraniolecular coupliiig which extends at<br />

an unknown distance s at either side of the CH2 group (see Eq. (3-45)).<br />

3.18.3 Collective Chain Flexibility<br />

In this section our attention is focused on attempts to describe in molecular terms<br />

the broadening and the upward shift of d- mode as discussed in Sections 3.18.1 and<br />

3.18.2.<br />

Let us first consider the case of a long 11-alkane molecule in the solid crystalline<br />

phase. Froin lattice dynainical calculations it is known that collective librational<br />

phonons (about the chain axis) exist in the lattice, some giving rise to scattering<br />

and/or absorption in infrared [70]. Let us take a n-alkane molecule with an even<br />

number of carbon atom which belongs to the C?h point group. The rigid rotation<br />

about its axis is of B, species, the same as the Raman active d- mode. When the

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