Reduction formula for point group C8v

Your representation

E 2C8 2C4 2(C8)3 C2 4v 4d
72 0.0000 0 -0.0000 0 4 2

can be reduced to

A1 A2 B1 B2 E1 E2 E3
6 3 5 4 9 9 9

Substraction of translational and rotational contributions results in

A1 A2 B1 B2 E1 E2 E3
5 2 5 4 7 9 9



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 66 66 5
quadratic 4356 2211 161
cubic 287496 50116 3187
quartic 18974736 864501 54442
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 5 2 5 4 7 9 9
quadratic 161 123 141 138 274 280 270
cubic 3187 3081 3157 3119 6254 6274 6258
quartic 54442 53707 54125 54019 107986 108136 107982

Number of independant internal coordinates 5

Literature




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

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