Reduction formula for point group C8v

Your representation

E 2C8 2C4 2(C8)3 C2 4v 4d
48 0.0000 0 -0.0000 0 4 0

can be reduced to

A1 A2 B1 B2 E1 E2 E3
4 2 4 2 6 6 6

Substraction of translational and rotational contributions results in

A1 A2 B1 B2 E1 E2 E3
3 1 4 2 4 6 6


Force field analysis

Infrared and Raman activities (harmonic approximation)
Method A1 A2 B1 B2 E1 E2 E3
Infrared + - - - + - -
Raman + - - - + + -

Number of force field parameters
Force field No. 1 No. 2 No. 3
linear 42 42 3
quadratic 1764 903 72
cubic 74088 13244 852
quartic 3111696 148995 9494
No. 1 : Total number of force constants .
No. 2 : Total number of force constants k.
No. 3 : Total number of nonvanishing force constants k.

Symmetry properties of force field parameters
Force field A1 A2 B1 B2 E1 E2 E3
linear 3 1 4 2 4 6 6
quadratic 72 47 59 55 112 115 108
cubic 852 804 856 808 1648 1662 1652
quartic 9494 9171 9376 9284 18592 18655 18588

Number of independant internal coordinates 3

Literature



Character tables for chemically important point groups Character table for point group C8v Constructor University Bremen
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