Visible absorption

Absorption in the visible is perceived as color. A number of mechanisms exist for the creation of color in glasses. The most important commercial colored glasses contain either 3d transition metal ions or 4f rare earth (lanthanide) ions, where the coloration arises from the so-called ligand field effect. Other sources of color include the formation of metal or semi-conductor colloidal particles, optical defects induced by solarization or radiation, and charge transfer bands in the visible region of the spectrum. 

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The UV-visible absorption spectrum of Ru(2,2 -bipyridine)3 maximum at about 450 nm, from which the energy in volts for process XI-39 may be estimated. The standard reduction potential for the R" /R couple is about 1.26 V at 25°C. Estimate from this information (and standard reduction potentials) the potential in volts for processes XI-40 and XI-41. Repeat the calculation for alkaline solutions. 

Rinnen K D, Kolenbramder K D, DeSantolo A M and Mandioh M L 1992 Direst infrared and visible absorption speotrosoopy of stoiohiometrio and nonstoiohiometrio olusters of indium phosphide J. Chem. Phys. 96 4088... 

Determination of purity. The ultraviolet and visible absorption is often a fairly intensive property thus e values of high intensity bands may be of the order of 10 -10 . In infrared spectra e values rarely exceed 10 . It is therefore often easy to pick out a characteristic band of a substance present in small concentration in admixture with other materials. Thus small amounts of aromatic compounds can be detected in hexane or in cyclohexane. 

Many organic compounds such as lycopene are colored because their HOMO-LUMO energy gap is small enough that appears m the visible range of the spec trum All that is required for a compound to be colored however is that it possess some absorption m the visible range It often happens that a compound will have its k m the UV region but that the peak is broad and extends into the visible Absorption of the blue to violet components of visible light occurs and the compound appears yellow... 

Ultraviolet/visible absorption spectrum for bromothymol blue. 

There is a wide variety of dyes unique to the field of hair coloring. Successive N-alkylation of the nitrophenylenediamines has an additive bathochromic effect on the visible absorption to the extent that violet-blue dyes can be formed. Since the simple A/-alkyl derivatives do not have good dyeing properties, patent activity has concentrated on the superior A/-hydroxyalkyl derivatives of nitrophenylenediamines (29,30), some of which have commercial use (31). Other substituents have been used (32). A series of patents also have been issued on substituted water-soluble azo and anthraquinone dyes bearing quaternary ammonium groups (33). 

The Wiesner Reaction. The reaction of lignified tissue and phloroglucinol—hydrochloric acid gives a visible absorption spectmm with a maximum at 550 nm. This has been attributed to coniferaldehyde units in lignin as the groups responsible for the color formation. 

Substance A has an absorption spectmm in one or more regions of the ultraviolet or visible spectral range. Irradiation of A at a wavelength corresponding to one of the absorption bands results in formation of substance B, which has a visible absorption spectmm different from A. Most commonly, substance A is uncolored or only slightly colored, whereas substance B is colored or appears darker than A. 

This facile reaction involves a modest change in the absorption of visible light, largely because of the visible absorption band of <7 -azobenzene [1080-16-6] having a larger extinction coefficient than azobenzene [17082-12-1]. Several studies have examined the physical property changes that occur upon photolysis of polymeric systems in which the azobenzene stmcture is part of the polymer backbone (17). 

In the example shown, the reduced form [49765-27-7] is blue with a visible absorption maximum at 610 nm. The rate of the reoxidation of the reduced form (cation radical, C24H22N" 2) is usually, but not always, strongly dependent on the presence of oxygen. 

NMR and visible spectra have established that a number of S-N anions are present in such solutions.The primary reduction products are polysulfides Sx, which dissociate to polysulfur radical anions, especially the deep blue 83 ion (/Imax 620nm). In a IM solution the major S-N anion detected by NMR spectroscopy is cycZo-[S7N] with smaller amounts of the [SSNSS] ion and a trace of [SSNS]. The formation of the acyclic anion 5.23 from the decomposition of cyclo-Sjl is well established from chemical investigations (Section 5.4.3). The acyclic anions 5.22 and 5.23 have been detected by their characteristic visible and Raman spectra. It has also been suggested that a Raman band at 858 cm and a visible absorption band at 390 nm may be attributed to the [SaN] anion formed by cleavage of a S-S bond in [SSNS]. ° However, this anion cannot be obtained as a stable species when [SsN] is treated with one equivalent of PPhs. 

In solution the cis and trans isomers may co-exist, as demonstrated by N NMR and UV-visible spectra. The N NMR chemical shift of the trans isomer is shifted ca. 60 ppm downfield relative to the cis isomer." The visible absorption band of S-nitrosothiols corresponds to a weak n K transition in the 520-590 nm region. The absorption maxima of trans conformers are red-shifted by ca. 30 nm relative to those of the cis isomer. Two absorptions are observed in the 520-590 nm region in the experimental spectra of RSNO derivatives." ... 

The preceding empirical measures have taken chemical reactions as model processes. Now we consider a different class of model process, namely, a transition from one energy level to another within a molecule. The various forms of spectroscopy allow us to observe these transitions thus, electronic transitions give rise to ultraviolet—visible absorption spectra and fluorescence spectra. Because of solute-solvent interactions, the electronic energy levels of a solute are influenced by the solvent in which it is dissolved therefore, the absorption and fluorescence spectra contain information about the solute-solvent interactions. A change in electronic absorption spectrum caused by a change in the solvent is called solvatochromism. 

FIGURE 21.9 Typical visible absorption spectra of cytochromes, (a) Cytochrome c, reduced spectrum (b) cytochrome c, oxidized spectrum (c) the difference spectrum (a) minus (b) (d) beef heart mitochondrial particles room temperature difference (reduced minus oxidized) spectrum (e) beef heart submitochondrial particles same as (d) but at 77 K. a- and /3- bauds are labeled, and in (d) and (e) the bauds for cytochromes a, h and c are indicated. 

Moreover, solutions of TII3 in MeOH do not show the visible absorption spectrum of I3 and, when shaken with aqueous Na2C03, give a precipitate of TI2O3, i.e. ... 

A. Electronic (Ultraviolet and Visible) Absorption Spectra The electronic absorption spectra of heterocyclic molecules have their origins in the transitions of electrons between different molecular orbitals. In general, the more these orbitals are spread out in space, the closer together are their energy levels and the longer the wavelengths... 

Chase, A. M., and Brigham, E. H. (1951). The ultraviolet and visible absorption spectra of Cypridina luciferin solutions. J. Biol. Chem. 190 529-536. 

Spectroscopic Data. Freshly prepd nitrosomethane has an IR absorption band at 6.3—6.4 p which slowly decays and is replaced by a band at 11 y characteristic of formaldehyde oxime (Ref 8). The visible absorption Amax is 287my in eth and at 266—7m p in w (Ref 4)... 

W.A. Schroeder et al, Ultraviolet and Visible Absorption Spectra in Ethyl Alcohol. 

The arenediazocyanides have been known since 1879. They played an important role in the Hantzsch-Bamberger debate on the (Z)/( ,)-isomerism of diazo compounds (see Sec. 7.1). When an aqueous solution of a diazonium salt is added to a solution of sodium or potassium cyanide, both in relatively high concentration, at a temperature below 0°C, a yellow to red (Z)-arenediazocyanide starts to crystallize. Hantzsch and Schulze (1895 a) found that these compounds rearrange into the (ii)-isomers, which have a bathochromically shifted visible absorption (see Sec. 7.1). Under strongly alkaline conditions a 1 2 adduct is formed, to which Stephenson and Waters (1939) assigned the structure 6.36. It was never corroborated, however, by modern instrumental analysis. 

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