IR and Raman spectrometry

Infrared spectrometry is currently exploited in process analysis but less so than near IR and Raman spectrometry. The reasons for this are the strong absorbances of most mid IR bands and the sensitivity of mid IR optical materials to chemical erosion. There is also a relative lack of practical hbre optic options for use in the mid IR range since silver halide and chalcogenide glasses, which cover the whole of the mid IR region, can attenuate the radiation by as much as 95%, even over short distances. Other hbres such as zirconium fluoride cut off below 2500 cm and so the fingerprint region information is lost. 

Many methods have been developed to access the extent of oxidative deterioration, which are related to the measurement of the concentration of primary or secondary oxidation products or of both. The most commonly used are peroxide value (PV) that measures volumetrically the concentration of hydroperoxides, anisidine value (AV), spectrophotometric measurement in the UV region and gas chromatographic (GC) analysis for volatile compounds. Vibrational spectroscopy, because of its high content in molecular structure information, has also been considered to be useful for the fast measurement of lipid oxidation. In contrast to the time consuming chromatographic methods, modem techniques of IR and Raman spectrometry are rapid and do not require any sample preparation steps prior to analysis. These techniques have been used to monitor oil oxidation under moderate and accelerated conditions and the major band changes have been interpreted. ... 

Studies by IR and Raman spectrometry provide important information on the nature of water-water bonds. The O-D stretching vibration band in HDO solution containing 8.5 mol% D2O in H2O was measured at 303-673 K and 5-400 MPa and the result is depicted in Fig. 19 [64]. The O-D band was observed at 2520 cm under ambient condition. A sharp band appearing at 2719 cm in the solution of p = 0.0165 g cm and T = 673 K was ascribed to free HOD molecules. The band disappeared in SCW with p — 0.095 gcm . On the other hand, a new band was observed around 2650 cm in water with p = 0.036 gem and the intensity of the band increased and shifted toward the low frequency side with increasing density. In water with p = 0.9gem the band appeared at 2600 cm . The band was ascribed to the O-D frequency of hydrogen-bonded water in SCW. 

High performance spectroscopic methods, like FT-IR and NIR spectrometry and Raman spectroscopy are widely applied to identify non-destructively the specific fingerprint of an extract or check the stability of pure molecules or mixtures by the recognition of different functional groups. Generally, the infrared techniques are more frequently applied in food colorant analysis, as recently reviewed. Mass spectrometry is used as well, either coupled to HPLC for the detection of separated molecules or for the identification of a fingerprint based on fragmentation patterns. ... 

In polymer/additive deformulation (of extracts, solutions and in-polymer), spectroscopic methods (nowadays mainly UV, IR and to a lesser extent NMR followed at a large distance by Raman) play an important role, and even more so in process analysis, where the time-consuming chromatographic techniques are less favoured. Some methods, as NMR and Raman spectrometry, were once relatively insensitive, but seem poised to become better performing. Quantitative polymer/additive analysis may benefit from more extensive use of 600-800 MHz 1-NMR equipped with a high-temperature accessory (soluble additives only). 

A full range of spectral data was routinely reported for each of the new compounds isolated. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography have essentially only been used as methods of structure determination/ confirmation and the results are unexceptional. The use of mass spectrometry in these series of compounds has been mainly confined to molecular ion determination. Ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR), and Raman techniques have been used for confirmation of structures, but no special report has been published. The major data in this field are well documented in CHEC-II(1996) and will not be reproduced in this chapter. Over the last decade, all these methods played a major role in establishing the structure, but did not provide new interesting structural information on these bicyclic systems. In consequence, these methods are not considered worthy of mention in detail here. 

Over the past decades several techniques have been used to obtain direct experimental information on the speciation of peroxo metal complexes heteronuclear NMR, IR and Raman spectroscopy, potentiometry and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). Often, more than one technique was used at the same time for acquiring complementary evidence. A significant, although nonexhaustive, list of examples related to several metals is given in Table 2. They include cases with hydrogen peroxide or alkyl... 

The compounds RSHgX (R = Me, Et, Pr, Bu X = Cl, Br, I) have been studied by vibrational spectrometry.367,368 The species MeSHgX (X = Cl, Br) are isostructural369 with a polymeric structure in which the mercury is in a pseudo-octahedral environment.368 IR and Raman measurements on a series of RSHgX have demonstrated the formation of a range of monomeric, dimeric and polymeric structures in the solid state, but they also have established the compounds to be monomeric in pyridine solution.367 In pyridine solution the equilibrium... 

Identifying pharmaceuticals, whether APIs or excipients used to manufacture products, and the end products themselves is among the routine tests needed to control pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Pharmacopoeias have compiled a wide range of analytical methods for the identification of pharmaceutical APIs and usually several tests for a product are recommended. The process can be labor-intensive and time-consuming with these conventional methods. This has raised the need for alternative, faster methods also ensuring reliable identification. Of the four spectroscopic techniques reviewed in this book, IR and Raman spectroscopy are suitable for the unequivocal identification of pharmaceuticals as their spectra are compound-specific no two compounds other than pairs of enantiomers or oligomers possess the same IR spectrum. However, IR spectrometry is confronted with some practical constraints such as the need to pretreat the sample. The introduction of substantial instrumental improvements and the spread of attenuated total reflectance (ATR) and IR microscopy techniques have considerably expanded the scope of IR spectroscopy in the pharmaceutical field. Raman spectroscopy,... 

Quahtative information on the structme of the colored corrinoids in solution can be extracted rapidly from UV/Vis and CD spectra most of the spectroscopic features can be rationalized nowadays by comparison with theoretically calculated spectra. For more precise constitutional information, some of the newly developed methods of mass spectrometry allow the analysis even of the involatile Bi2-derivatives. Modem one-and two-dimensional proton, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphoms NMR spectroscopy has proven a powerful instrument for the delineation of the stmcture of diamagnetic cobalt-corrins in solution. ESR-spectroscopy has given important information on paramagnetic corrinoid Co"-complexes, whether in frozen solutions or bound in corrinoid enzymes. X-ray adsorption fine spectroscopy (EXAFS) spectroscopy and vibrational (IR and Raman) spectroscopy are other spectroscopic techniques used more frequently now in the B12 field. 

Nomnetal fluorides and oxyfluorides have been studied by nearly every available modem spectroscopic and diffraction technique. This is due in part to the strong practical and theoretical interest in the stracture and reactivity of simple molecules of this type, the diversity of compounds that can be obtained, and their amenability to study by many different techniques. Many stractures of simple ffnorides and oxyfluorides have been determined by electron diffraction, microwave specttoscopy. X-ray diffraction, and vibrational analysis. For many chemists interested in the synthesis and reactivity of main group fluorides and derivatives, F NMR, IR, and Raman spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry are the indispensable routine tools of analysis. 

Transient intermediates are most commonly observed by their absorption (transient absorption spectroscopy see ref. 185 for a compilation of absorption spectra of transient species). Various other methods for creating detectable amounts of reactive intermediates such as stopped flow, pulse radiolysis, temperature or pressure jump have been invented and novel, more informative, techniques for the detection and identification of reactive intermediates have been added, in particular EPR, IR and Raman spectroscopy (Section 3.8), mass spectrometry, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The technique used for detection need not be fast, provided that the time of signal creation can be determined accurately (see Section 3.7.3). For example, the separation of ions in a mass spectrometer (time of flight) or electrons in an electron microscope may require microseconds or longer. Nevertheless, femtosecond time resolution has been achieved,186 187 because the ions or electrons are formed by a pulse of femtosecond duration (1 fs = 10 15 s). Several reports with recommended procedures for nanosecond flash photolysis,137,188-191 ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy,192 crystallography193 and pump probe absorption spectroscopy194,195 are available and a general treatise on ultrafast intense laser chemistry is in preparation by IUPAC. 

The mass spectrometer is now widely accepted as a crucial analytical tool for organic molecules in the pharmaceutical industry. Although usually treated as a spectroscopic technique, it does not rely on the interaction with electromagnetic radiation (light, infrared, etc.) for the analysis. Rather it is a micro-chemical technique relying on the production of characteristic ions in the gas phase, followed by the separation and acquisition of those ions. By its operation, it destroys the sample unlike other techniques, such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR) and Raman/UV spectroscopies. Nonetheless, mass spectrometry is so sensitive that molecular weight and structural information can be provided on very small samples (attomolar (10" molar) quantities). 

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