Chemical Applications Of Symmetry And Group Theory

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Chemical Applications Of Symmetry And Group Theory
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Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of chemical applications

Duration	8 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Chemical Applications Of Symmetry And Group Theory
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Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion

Chemical Applications Of Symmetry And Group Theory
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Operations

What are the course deliverables?

Predicting whether a given molecule will be chiral, or polar
Examining chemical bonding and visualizing molecular orbitals
Predicting whether a molecule may absorb light of a given polarisation, and which spectroscopic transitions may be excited if it does
Investigating the vibrational motions of the molecule, etc

More about this course

This course aim is to provide a systematic treatment of symmetry in chemical systems within the mathematical framework known as group theory

Chemical Applications Of Symmetry And Group Theory
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Curriculum

Introduction; Mathematical definition of a group, Symmetry operations and symmetry elements

Symmetry classification of molecules – point groups, symmetry and physical properties: Polarity, Chirality etc

Properties of matrix representations: Similarity transforms, Characters of representations, Irreducible

Reduction of representations: The Great Orthogonality Theorem; Using the GOT to determine the irreducible

Spectroscopy –Group theory and molecular electronic states, electronic transitions in molecules, vibrational transitions in molecules, Raman scattering. Summary of the course

Chemical Applications Of Symmetry And Group Theory
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Faculty details

Prof. Manabendra Chandra

Dr. Manabendra Chandra is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur. His area of specialization is experimental physical chemistry