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the energy associated with a particular wavefunction perhaps the most important information contained in a wavefunction can be extracted by solving the schrödinger equation above ψ is the wavefunction e is the energy and ĥ is the hamiltonian operator 12 page needed in which an appropriate hamiltonian operator is applied in the various forms of the schrödinger equation the overall size of a particle s probability distribution increases with decreasing particle mass for this reason nuclei are of negligible size in relation to much lighter electrons and are treated as point charges in practical applications of quantum chemistry due to complex interactions which arise from electron electron repulsion algebraic solutions of the schrödinger equation are only possible for systems with one electron such as the hydrogen atom h 2 h 3 2 etc however from these simple models arise all the familiar atomic s p d f and bonding σ π orbitals in systems with multiple electrons an overall multielectron wavefunction describes all of their properties at once such wavefunctions are generated through the linear addition of single electron wavefunctions to generate an initial guess which is repeatedly modified until its associated energy is minimized thousands of guesses are often required until a satisfactory solution is found so such calculations are performed by powerful computers importantly the solutions for atoms with multiple electrons give properties such as diameter and electronegativity which closely mirror experimental data and the patterns found in the periodic table the solutions for molecules such as methane provide exact representations of their electronic structure which are unobtainable by experimental methods citation needed instead of four discrete σ bonds from carbon to each hydrogen atom theory predicts a set of four bonding molecular orbitals which are delocalized across the entire molecule similarly the true electronic structure of 1 3 butadiene shows delocalized π bonding molecular orbitals stretching through the entire molecule rather than two isolated double bonds as predicted by a simple lewis structure citation needed a complete electronic structure offers great predictive power for organic transformations and dynamics especially in cases concerning aromatic molecules extended π systems bonds between metal ions and organic molecules molecules containing nonstandard heteroatoms like selenium and boron and the conformational dynamics of large molecules such as proteins wherein the many approximations in chemical formalisms make structure and reactivity prediction impossible an example of how electronic structure determination is a useful tool for the physical organic chemist is the metal catalyzed dearomatization of benzene chromium tricarbonyl is highly electrophilic due to the withdrawal of electron density from filled chromium d orbitals into antibonding co orbitals and is able to covalently bond to the face of a benzene molecule through delocalized molecular orbitals the co ligands inductively draw electron density from benzene through the chromium atom and dramatically activate benzene to nucleophilic attack nucleophiles are then able to react to make hexacyclodienes which can be used in further transformations such as diels alder cycloadditions 19 chromium s unoccupied d orbitals mediate electron withdrawal from benzene greatly enhancing its electrophilicity quantum chemistry can also provide insight into the mechanism of an organic transformation without the collection of any experimental data because wavefunctions provide the total energy of a given molecular state guessed molecular geometries can be optimized to give relaxed molecular structures very similar to those found through experimental methods 20 page needed reaction coordinates can then be simulated and transition state structures solved solving a complete energy surface for a given reaction is therefore possible and such calculations have been applied to many problems in organic chemistry where kinetic data is unavailable or difficult to acquire 1 page needed spectroscopy spectrometry and crystallography edit physical organic chemistry often entails the identification of molecular structure dynamics and the concentration of reactants in the course of a reaction the interaction of molecules with light can afford a wealth of data about such properties through nondestructive spectroscopic experiments with light absorbed when the energy of a photon matches the difference in energy between two states in a molecule and emitted when an excited state in a molecule collapses to a lower energy state spectroscopic techniques are broadly classified by the type of excitation being probed such as vibrational rotational electronic nuclear magnetic resonance nmr and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in addition to spectroscopic data structure determination is often aided by complementary data collected from x ray diffraction and mass spectrometric experiments 21 page needed nmr and epr spectroscopy edit main articles nuclear magnetic resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance splitting of nuclei spin states in an external magnetic field one of the most powerful tools in physical organic chemistry is nmr spectroscopy an external magnetic field applied to a paramagnetic nucleus generates two discrete states with positive and negative spin values diverging in energy the difference in energy can then be probed by determining the frequency of light needed to excite a change in spin state for a given magnetic field nuclei that are not indistinguishable in a given molecule absorb at different frequencies and the integrated peak area in an nmr spectrum is proportional to the number of nuclei responding to that frequency 22 it is possible to quantify the relative concentration of different organic molecules simply by integration peaks in the spectrum and many kinetic experiments can be easily and quickly performed by following the progress of a reaction within one nmr sample proton nmr is often used by the synthetic organic chemist because protons associated with certain functional groups give characteristic absorption energies but nmr spectroscopy can also be performed on isotopes of nitrogen carbon fluorine phosphorus boron and a host of other elements in addition to simple absorption experiments it is also possible to determine the rate of fast atom exchange reactions through suppression exchange measurements interatomic distances through multidimensional nuclear overhauser effect experiments and through bond spin spin coupling through homonuclear correlation spectroscopy 23 in addition to the spin excitation properties of nuclei it is also possible to study the properties of organic radicals through the same fundamental technique unpaired electrons also have a net spin and an external magnetic field allows for the extraction of similar information through electron paramagnetic resonance epr spectroscopy 1 page needed vibrational spectroscopy edit main article infrared spectroscopy the first eight states in a quantum harmonic oscillator the horizontal axis shows the position x and the vertical axis shows the energy note the even spacing of the energy levels all excitations between adjacent states require the same energy and therefore absorb the same wavelength of light vibrational spectroscopy or infrared ir spectroscopy allows for the identification of functional groups and due to its low expense and robustness is often used in teaching labs and the real time monitoring of reaction progress in difficult to reach environments high pressure high temperature gas phase phase boundaries molecular vibrations are quantized in an analogous manner to electronic wavefunctions with integer increases in frequency leading to higher energy states the difference in energy between vibrational states is nearly constant often falling in the energy range corresponding to infrared photons because at normal temperatures molecular vibrations closely resemble harmonic oscillators it allows for the crude identification of functional groups in organic molecules but spectra are complicated by vibrational coupling between nearby functional groups in complex molecules therefore its utility in structure determination is usually limited to simple molecules further complicating matters is that some vibrations do not induce a change in the molecular dipole moment and will not be observable with standard ir absorption spectroscopy these can instead be probed through raman spectroscopy but this technique requires a more elaborate apparatus and is less commonly performed however as raman spectroscopy relies on light scattering it can be performed on microscopic samples such as the surface of a heterogeneous catalyst a phase boundary or on a one microliter μl subsample within a larger liquid volume 21 page needed the applications of vibrational spectroscopy are often used by astronomers to study the composition of molecular gas clouds extrasolar planetary atmospheres and planetary surfaces electronic excitation spectroscopy edit main article ultraviolet visible spectroscopy electronic excitation spectroscopy or ultraviolet visible uv vis spectroscopy is performed in the visible and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and is useful for probing the difference in energy between the highest energy occupied homo and lowest energy unoccupied lumo molecular orbitals this information is useful to physical organic chemists in the design of organic photochemical systems and dyes as absorption of different wavelengths of visible light give organic molecules color a detailed understanding of an electronic structure is therefore helpful in explaining electronic excitations and through careful control of molecular structure it is possible to tune the homo lumo gap to give desired colors and excited state properties 24 mass spectrometry edit main article mass spectrometry mass spectrometry is a technique which allows for the measurement of molecular mass and offers complementary data to spectroscopic techniques for structural identification in a typical experiment a gas phase sample of an organic material is ionized and the resulting ionic species are accelerated by an applied electric field into a magnetic field the deflection imparted by the magnetic field often combined with the time it takes for the molecule to reach a detector is then used to calculate the mass of the molecule often in the course of sample ionization large molecules break apart and the resulting data show a parent mass and a number of smaller fragment masses such fragmentation can give rich insight into the sequence of proteins and nucleic acid polymers in addition to the mass of a molecule and its fragments the distribution of isotopic variant masses can also be determined and the qualitative presence of certain elements identified due to their characteristic natural isotope distribution the ratio of fragment mass population to the parent ion population can be compared against a library of empirical fragmentation data and matched to a known molecular structure 25 combined gas chromatography and mass spectrometry is used to qualitatively identify molecules and quantitatively measure concentration with great precision and accuracy and is widely used to test for small quantities of biomolecules and illicit narcotics in blood samples for synthetic organic chemists it is a useful tool for the characterization of new compounds and reaction products crystallography edit main article crystallography single crystal structure of a fullerene caught in molecular tweezers unlike spectroscopic methods x ray crystallography always allows for unambiguous structure determination and provides precise bond angles and lengths totally unavailable through spectroscopy it is often used in physical organic chemistry to provide an absolute molecular configuration and is an important tool in improving the synthesis of a pure enantiomeric substance it is also the only way to identify the position and bonding of elements that lack an nmr active nucleus such as oxygen indeed before x ray structural determination methods were made available in the early 20th century all organic structures were entirely conjectural tetrahedral carbon for example was only confirmed by the crystal structure of diamond 26 and the delocalized structure of benzene was confirmed by the crystal structure of hexamethylbenzene 27 while crystallography provides organic chemists with highly satisfying data it is not an everyday technique in organic chemistry because a perfect single crystal of a target compound must be grown only complex molecules for which nmr data cannot be unambiguously interpreted require this technique in the example below the structure of the host guest complex would have been quite difficult to solve without a single crystal structure there are no 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