Chem 125 Lecture 5 9/12/08 Projected material This material is for the exclusive use of Chem 125 students at Yale and may not be copied or distributed further. It is not readily understood without reference to notes from the lecture.
Despite Earnshaw, might there still be shared-pair bonds and lone pairs?
Scanning Probe Microscopies (AFM, STM, SNOM) are really powerful. Sharp points can resolve individual molecules and even atoms but not bonds
Lux
A lonely architectural curiosity on Sterling Chemistry Laboratory at Yale University (1923)
Micrographia Robert Hooke (1665) “But Nature is not to be limited by our narrow comprehension; future improvements of glasses may yet further enlighten our understanding, and ocular inspection may demonstrate that which as yet we may think too extravagant either to feign or suppose.”
Water Oil “Thickness” ~ 200 nm Path Difference = 400 nm = 0.5 Strong 400 nm Scattering No 800 nm Scattering = 1 Interference upon Scattering
Chris Incarvito’s New Toys
User Operated - CCD Detector X-Ray Tube ~$200K
Image Plate ~$350K
"Seeing" Individual Molecules, Atoms, and Bonds? Problem:
What IS light?
In What Way is Light a Wave? Force on Charge at One Position Up Down 0 Time Charged Particle
Charged Particle In What Way is Light a Wave? Force at Different Positions - OneTime Up Down 0 Position
Accelerated Electrons “Scatter” Light Why don’t protons or other nuclei scatter light? Too heavy! direct beam
Interference of Ripples Angular Intensity Distribution at great distance depends on Scatterer Distribution at the origin
By refocussing, a lens can reassemble the information from the scattered wave into an image of the scatterers. But a lens for x-rays is hard to come by. Be sure to read the webpage on x-ray diffraction.
"Seeing" Molecules, Atoms, Bonds Collectively by X-Ray Crystallography
Blurring Problem Blurring Problem from Motion and Defects Time Averaging Space Averaging in Diffraction (Cooperative Scattering) Advantage for SPM (Operates in Real Space)
In 1895 Röntgen Discovers X-Rays Shadow of Frau R ö entgen ’ s hand (1896) In 1912 Laue Invents X-Ray Diffraction CuSO 4 Diffraction (1912)
Wm. Lawrence Bragg ( ) Determined structure of ZnS from Laue's X-ray diffraction pattern (1912) Youngest Nobel Laureate (1915) Courtesy Dr. Stephen Bragg
B-DNA R. Franklin (1952)
Science, 11 August 2000
25 nm (250 Å) >100,000 atoms + hydrogens!
What can X-ray diffraction show? How does diffraction work? Like all light, X-rays are waves. Atoms?Molecules?Bonds?
Wave Machines
by permission, Konstantin Lukin Bragg Machine Breaks? in & out same phase
Direct Two Scattering Directions are Always Exactly in Phase “scattering vector” Specular perpendicular to scattering vector All electrons on a plane perpendicular to the scattering vector scatter in-phase at the specular angle ! Specular
scattering vector Electrons-on-Evenly-Spaced-Planes Trick
10 scattering vector Net in-phase scattering Total Electrons Suppose & angle such that: Electrons-on-Evenly-Spaced-Planes Trick
10 scattering vector Suppose first path difference is half a wavelength, because of change in (or angle) Net in-phase scattering Total Electrons Electrons-on-Evenly-Spaced-Planes Trick
View from Ceiling 10.6 m 633 nm DIFFRACTION MASK (courtesy T. R. Welberry, Canberra) ………………….. spacing = 10.8 cm Q. What is the line spacing?
End of Lecture 5 Sept 12, 2008