%0 Journal Article %T Comparative vibrational spectra of pilosine and epiisopilosine crystals %A Bento %A R.R.F. %A Silva %A L.E. da %A Faria %A J.L.B. %A Freire %A P.T.C. %A de Oliveira %A M.C.F. %A Romero %A N.R. %A Teixeira %A A.M.R. %A Pontes %A F.M. %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332010000200016 %X this paper describes the study of two alkaloids extracted from pilocarpus microphyllus (rutaceae): pilosine and epiisopilosine. these substances have potential application in the treatment of several diseases. in this work ft-raman and the ft-ir spectra of pilosine and epiisopilosine were investigated at 300 k. vibrational wavenumber and wave vector have been predicted using density functional theory (b3lyp) calculations with the 6-31 g(d,p) basis set. a comparison with experiment, allowed us to assign most of the normal modes of the crystals. %K raman scattering %K infrared spectroscopy %K normal modes %K pilosine %K epiisopilosine. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332010000200016&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en