The two methods are complementary because some vibrational transitions that are observed in IR spectroscopy are not observed in Raman spectroscopy, and vice versa.
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In 1995, he proved that the sum of the rotational strengths of all vibrational transitions from the ground state of a chiral molecule is zero.
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The Rotational transitions are responsible for absorption in the microwave and far-infrared, vibrational transitions in the mid-infrared and near-infrared.
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Not all vibrational transitions are " Raman active ", i . e ., some vibrational transitions do not appear in the Raman spectrum.
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Not all vibrational transitions are " Raman active ", i . e ., some vibrational transitions do not appear in the Raman spectrum.
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The most direct way is through infrared spectroscopy, as vibrational transitions typically require an amount of energy that corresponds to the infrared region of the spectrum.
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In the simplest cases the part of the infrared spectrum involving vibrational transitions with the same rotational quantum number ( ?J = 0 ) in ground and excited states is called the Q-branch.
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Hence the three types of vibrational spectroscopy are complementary, all giving in theory the same frequency for a given vibrational transition, but the relative intensities giving different information due to the types of interaction between the molecule and the electromagnetic radiation for infrared and Raman spectroscopy and with the neutron beam for IINS.
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This is because the frequencies of vibrational transitions depend on the atomic masses and the bond strengths . ( Heavier atoms correspond to lower vibrational frequencies, while stronger bonds correspond to higher vibrational frequencies . ) Thus, armed with a database of spectra from known compounds, one can unambiguously identify many different known chemical compounds based on a Raman spectrum.
