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American Institute of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 24(142), p. 244107, 2015

DOI: 10.1063/1.4922891

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Linear transformation of anharmonic molecular force constants between normal and Cartesian coordinates

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Abstract

A full derivation of the analytic transformation of the quadratic, cubic, and quartic force constants from normal coordinates to Cartesian coordinates is given. Previous attempts at this transformation have resulted in non-linear transformations; however, for the first time, a simple linear transformation is presented here. Two different approaches have been formulated and implemented, one of which does not require prior knowledge of the translation-rotation eigenvectors from diagonalization of the Hessian matrix. The validity of this method is tested using two molecules H2O and c-C3H2D(+).