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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2007  > November  >
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Correcting Two Long-Standing Errors in Point Group Symmetry Character Tables
Randall B. Shirts
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
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November 2007
Vol. 84 No. 11
p. 1882
Abstract
Two long-standing errors in published point group character tables are examined. The first is the assignment in the S8 point group of (Rx, Ry) to the E1 irreducible representation rather than E3. The second is a reversal of column labeling of 2SS and 2S83 classes in the D8h group character table. These errors may trace back to 1955 and 1971 publications, respectively.
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Citation
Shirts, Randall B. J. Chem. Educ. 2007, 84, 1882.
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Keywords
Crystal Field / Ligand Field Theory; Graduate Education / Research; Group Theory / Symmetry; Inorganic Chemistry; IR Spectroscopy; MO Theory; Physical Chemistry; Textbooks / Reference Books; Theoretical Chemistry; Upper-Division Undergraduate; X-ray Crystallography
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9/24/2007
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