Calculation of kinetic energy functions for the ring-twisting and ring-bending vibrations of tetralin and related molecules

Vector methods have been developed for the computation of the kinetic energy (reciprocal reduced mass) expressions for the ring-twisting and ring-bending vibrations of bicyclic molecules in the tetralin family. The definitions of the bond vectors in terms of these coordinates are presented. Both one- and two-dimensional kinetic energy surfaces have been calculated for tetralin and 1,4-benzodioxan and both are significantly coordinate dependent. The results for the S0 electronic ground states and S1(π, π*) excited states are presented.