id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 0z708w34j99 Ryan Thomas Haws Computation of Nitrile Vibrations as a Probe of the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter Systems 2012 .txt text/plain 192 7 18 The nitrile functional group is an interesting candidate for use as a vibrational probe because it has a good infrared absorption coefficient, can be used to monitor hydrogen bonding environments and local electric fields, and it absorbs in an uncluttered region of the infrared spectrum. The use of a nitrile vibration to measure structure and dynamical properties of complex chemical and biochemical systems with sub-picosecond resolution has been investigated computationally. cache/0z708w34j99.txt txt/0z708w34j99.txt