Fermi resonance
Resonancia de Fermi
- Date
- 1931 · confidence low
- Place
- Rome, Italy
- Credited to
- Enrico Fermi
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Shift in the energies and intensities of absorption bands in infrared or Raman spectra caused by the mixing of near-degenerate wavefunctions; explained by Enrico Fermi.
What it led to
- Interpretation of complex vibrational spectra
- Consolidation of modern molecular spectroscopy
- Precise analysis of polyatomic molecules
- Applications in analytical Raman chemistry