Use WWW-based methods to maximize understanding,
without simply replacing static pictures in print with static pictures
on the Web. Connection with computational chemistry is highly desirable,
fostering first principles "discovery" of molecular properties
and subject to experimental verification.
Method
Use computational chemistry to predict vibrational
modes of organic molecules. These modes will be reproducible by others
using the same computational program to investigate the same molecule.
Use a freeware Chime (version 2.6, MDL Inc.) to visualize
organic vibrational modes. Commercial versions of Chime have even more capabilities
than the freeware version.
Use the JCAMP-DX viewer capability of Chime (created
by Dr. R. J. Lancashire of UWI-Mona) to display, manipulate, and link experimental
spectra to dynamic pictures of vibrations.
Tools
For best viewing of these pages, you will want the
following two plugins.
The molecular and spectral animations require Chime, which displays
molecular structures and spectra.
You may also just wait and get them later, when suggested
by subsequent pages.
You will also use a program called VIBREAD
(by P. M. Lahti) or xvibs.
Reference
Paul M. Lahti, Eric J. Motyka, Robert J. Lancashire,
"Interactive Visualization of Infrared Spectral Data: Synergy of Computation,
Visualization and Experiment for Learning Spectroscopy", Journal
of Chemical Education, 77, 649-653 (2000). [ABSTRACT]
