Abstract

The nonrigid molecule group theory (NRG) in which the dynamical symmetry operations are defined as physical operations is a new field in chemistry. Smeyers in a series of papers applied this notion to determine the character table of restricted NRG of some molecules. In this note, a simple method is described by means of which it is possible to calculate character tables for the symmetry group of molecules consisting of a number of methyl groups attached to a rigid framework. We study the full NRG of trimethylamine and prove that it is a group of order 1296 with 28 conjugacy classes. The method can be generalized to apply to other nonrigid molecules. The full nonrigid (f‐NRG) molecule group theory is seen to be used advantageously to study the internal dynamics of such molecules.

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