Electric dipole moment

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Physical size
Surname Electric dipole moment
Formula symbol
Size and
unit system
unit dimension
SI A · m · s I · L · T
Gauss ( cgs ) D = 10 -18 · StatC · cm L 5/2 · M ½ · T −1
esE ( cgs ) D = 10 -18 · StatC · cm L 5/2 · M ½ · T −1
emE ( cgs ) abC · cm L 3/2 x M ½
Dipole moment of an H 2 O molecule.
red: negative partial charge
blue: positive partial charge
green: directional dipole

The electric dipole moment characterizes a spatial charge separation. Has one in a body, e.g. B. a molecule , an electrical charge of different sign in different places so that the center of gravity of the negative charges ( electrons ) and the center of gravity of the positive charges ( atomic nuclei ) do not coincide, then this body has an electrical dipole moment.

In chemistry , the dipole moment is a measure of the strength of a dipole molecule and thus the polarity of a molecule . This is caused by polar atomic bonds or in extreme cases by ionic bonds .

Other dipoles (e.g. magnetic dipoles ) are also possible, which consequently also develop other dipole moments .

calculation

Electric dipole moment of selected molecules
molecule Dipole moment
in Debye
Dipole moment
in 10 −30  C m
CO 0.11 0.367
HF 1.826178 6.0915
HCl 1.109 3,700
HBr 0.827 2.759
HI 0.448 1.495
NH 3 1.471 4.907
PF 3 1.025 3.419
H 2 O 1.84 6,152
H 2 S 0.97 3.236
CH 2 O 2.34 7.806
NaCl 8.5 28,356
Theatrical Version 7.33 28.690
KCl 10.48 34.261
KBr 10.41 34.728
AI 11.05 30.825
CsCl 10.387 34.647

If there is a positive charge   with the normalized connection vector at a distance from a negative charge  (this points from the negative charge in the direction of the positive charge) and these charges are rigidly connected to one another, this structure has a dipole moment of the size:

The larger the charge  , the higher the dipole moment. Even if the charges move further apart (increasing amount of ), the dipole moment increases.

If, with a discrete charge distribution, there are charges at the locations relative to the center of gravity of the charge distribution, the total dipole moment is made up of the individual dipole moments :

In the general case of a continuous charge distribution, the dipole moment is calculated using the charge density :

The discrete case emerges from the general, if the charge density is represented by the individual charges and the delta distribution :

The volume integral then only provides contributions at the locations of the charges, so that we get:

In general, a potential can be developed into a constant part and multipole parts , including the dipole moment.

unit

Despite the change to the International System of Units (SI) , the cgs unit Debye is still used as the unit of dipole moment, named after the Dutch physicist Peter Debye . The reason for this is that when using the SI units coulomb and meter one would have to deal with very small numbers:

For molecules, the dipole moment is usually in the range from 0 Debye to 12 Debye. The most polar non-ionic, fully saturated compound is Debye all- cis -1,2,3,4,5,6-hexafluorocyclohexane with a dipole moment of 6.2 . With 14.1 Debye, the likewise nonionic but unsaturated compound 5,6-diaminobenzo-1,2,3,4-tetracarbonitrile is again significantly more polar.

The dipole moment can be determined with the help of the Debye equation by measuring the dielectric constant . Furthermore, measurements of the Stark effect provide information about the dipole moment of a substance.

Dipole moments of excited states

Knowledge of the change in molecular dipole moments with electronic excitation is essential for understanding important natural photo-induced processes such as photosynthesis or the process of vision . The measurement of solvatachromic or thermochromic wavelength shifts in solutions can be used to determine the dipole moments of excited states .

The dipole moments

  • μ G in the ground state of the molecule as well
  • μ E in the excited state of the molecule

can be calculated using the Lippert-Mataga equation :

With

Dipole moments of molecules in the gas phase can be determined much more precisely by electronic Stark spectroscopy.

See also

literature

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