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Vibrational spectral investigation on xanthine and its derivatives--theophylline, caffeine and theobromine.Gunasekaran S, Sankari G, Ponnusamy S PG & Research Department of Physics, Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai 600 030, India. sethugunasekaran@rediffmail.com A normal coordinate analysis has been carried out on four compounds having a similar ring structure with different side chain substitutions, which are xanthine, caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine. Xanthine is chemically known as 2,6-dihydroxy purine. Caffeine, theophylline and theobromine are methylated xanthines. Considering the methyl groups as point mass, the number of normal modes of vibrations can be distributed as Gamma(vib) = 27 A' + 12 A" based on C(s) point group symmetry associated with the structures. In the present work 15 A' and 12 A'' normal modes are considered. A new set of orthonormal symmetry co-ordinates have been constructed. Wilson's F-G matrix method has been adopted for the normal coordinate analysis. A satisfactory vibrational band assignment has been made by employing the FTIR and FT Raman spectra of the compounds. The potential energy distribution is calculated with the arrived values of the force constants and hence the agreement of the frequency assignment has been checked. Published 23 November 2004 in Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc, 61(1): 117-27.
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