Inorganic Chemistry
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Author: Gary L. Miessler, Paul J. Fischer, Donald A. Tarr
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.21P
Ethylene has
a. List all the symmetry operations of ethylene.
b. Write a transformation matrix for each symmetry operation that describes the effect of thatoperation on the coordinates of a point x, y, z.
c. Using the characters of your transformation matrices, obtain a reducible representation.
d. Using the diagonal elements of your matrices, obtain three of the
e. Show that your irreducible representations are mutually orthogonal.
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