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Chemistry Forums for Students => Undergraduate General Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: wee__ally1 on May 24, 2009, 08:53:36 AM

Title: trans-dichloroethene
Post by: wee__ally1 on May 24, 2009, 08:53:36 AM

When evaluating the number and mode of vibrations of trans-dichloroethene do you determine how the chlorines and the carbons orbitals transform under the symmetry operations of the point group or just the carbons orbitals?  I tried doing it using only the carbons orbitals and got a bit of a weird result!

Thanks