Abstract
MODERN students of molecular structure have before them the double objective of the determination of the positions and mobilities of the atoms in a molecule, or, in other words, the equilibrium atomic configuration and the intramolecular force field; and their ideal is to achieve a complete and quantitative description of these complementary features of structure. Two types of method of outstanding value are available for the quantitative study of atomic configuration, namely, a group of interferometric methods, either with electrons or X-rays, and a group of spectro-scopic methods, which may be summarized under the name long-wave spectroscopy. One method only is available for the complementary study of intramolecular force fields, namely, the method of long-wave spectroscopy.
The Ram an Effect and its Chemical Applications
By James H. Hibben. With a Theoretical Discussion by James H. Hibben and Prof. Edward Teller. (American Chemical Society, Monograph Series, No. 80.) Pp. 544. (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 66s. net.
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INGOLD, C. The Ram an Effect and its Chemical Applications. Nature 145, 406–407 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145406a0
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