Spectroscopic techniques according

Table I. Better-Known Spectroscopic Techniques According to the Excitation Source and Measured Emission0...

Electron spectroscopic techniques require vacuums of the order of 10 Pa for their operation. This requirement arises from the extreme surface-specificity of these techniques, mentioned above. With sampling depths of only a few atomic layers, and elemental sensitivities down to 10 atom layers (i. e., one atom of a particular element in 10 other atoms in an atomic layer), the techniques are clearly very sensitive to surface contamination, most of which comes from the residual gases in the vacuum system. According to gas kinetic theory, to have enough time to make a surface-analytical measurement on a surface that has just been prepared or exposed, before contamination from the gas phase interferes, the base pressure should be 10 Pa or lower, that is, in the region of ultrahigh vacuum (UHV). 

Attempts to use for this purpose some spectroscopic techniques (IR, NMR) have not provided reliable data because of their low sensitivities. Another approach was found to be successful. If the interaction of benzene with a-oxygen actually produces phenol, and if this phenol can be extracted from the surface, its amount will be sufficient for reliable chromatographic analysis. Based on this idea, experiments were carried out according to the following three stage scheme [18] ... 

The absorption spectroscopy has been widely used for monitoring the rate of chemical reactions. During the reaction, if there is either appearance of colour in a colourless solution or disappearance of colour in a coloured solution or a species which absorbed at a specific wavelength is formed, the spectroscopic technique can be used. Instruments like colorimeters and spectrophotometers are available to cover the visible, near infrared and ultra violet region of the spectrum (200-1000 nm). The absorption spectroscopy is governed by well-known Beer-Lambert s Law according to which ... 

It is easy to imagine a variety of spectroscopies, as many as the number of possible classifications according to the radiation used and/or the state of the matter (solid, liquid, or gas) interacting with this radiation. The tremendous development of new experimental techniques, as well as the sophistication of those that already exist, is giving rise to the continuous appearance of new spectroscopic techniques. Nevertheless, the different spectroscopies and spectroscopic techniques are rooted in a basic phenomenon the absorption, reflection, emission, or scattering of radiation by matter in a selective range of frequencies and under certain conditions. ... 

Finally, highly reactive salts such as triphenylmethyl hexachloroantimonate provide very convenient scavenging agents for the removal of the last traces of nucleophilic impurities in polymerisation solvents. Penczek (35) has taken this further in developing a spectroscopic technique for the determination of trace quantities of residual water by reaction of the latter with known concentrations of triphenylmethyl salts, according to the following equilibria ... 

Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (DOSY)45 is a NMR spectroscopic technique that separates the NMR signals of different compounds according to their diffusion coefficient (D, their rate of diffusion in a particular medium). A series of spin echo spectra is measured with different pulsed field gradient strengths, and the signal decays are fitted to give diffusion coefficients for each compound present. In 2D DOSY this... 

We wish to report data on a series of whole coals and coal macerals using conventional CP/MAS, dipolar dephasing, and 2-D dipolar dephasing techniques. These data provide a wealth of new structural information and demonstrate that multiple pulse and 2-D spectroscopic techniques can be utilized on complex carbonaceous materials. We also report data obtained on maceral samples separated by the density gradient centrifugation method which separates coal maceral groups according to density. 

In conclusion, the investigation of catalytic problems by using a combination of spectroscopic techniques, applied under conditions which resemble as closely as possible those of the reaction in which the catalyst operates, according to an integrated approach in which experts in catalysis and spectroscopy work in close harmony, offers the best perspectives for successful research into catalysts. 

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