Neutron molecular spectroscopy

APR 01, 1976

Improvements in empirical potential functions and calculational techniques promise to upgrade neutron molecular spectroscopy into a powerful tool for probing intermolecular forces in complex systems.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3023422

Sow‐Hsin Chen

Sidney Yip

Neutron scattering is playing an increasingly important, and sometimes even unique, role in molecular spectroscopy. In this article we describe a unified approach to the study of molecular forces, correlating thermodynamic, conformational, structural and spectroscopic data on atomic and molecular systems. Our emphasis is on the basic information on the intermolecular potential function that can be extracted from the study of the dynamical properties of these systems. In particular we will describe the development of empirical potentials for chemical systems and discuss current techniques in neutron spectroscopy.

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More about the Authors

Sow‐Hsin Chen. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sidney Yip. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.