UV-VIS spectroscopy and its applications / Heinz-Helmut Perkampus ; translated by H. Charlotte Grinter and T.L. Threlfall

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

1: Introduction -- 2: Principles. 2.1: The Bouguer-Lambert-Beer Law and Its Practical Application. 2.2: Primary Photophysical Processes. 2.3: Vibrational Structure of Electronic Spectra. 2.4: Electronic Spectra and Molecular Structure -- 3: Photometers and Spectrophotometers. 3.1: Photometers. 3.2: Spectrophotometers. 3.3: The Stray Light Error. 3.4: Light Sources for UV-VIS Spectroscopy -- 4: Analytical Applications of UV-VIS Spectroscopy. 4.1: Photometric Determination of a Single Substance. 4.2: Multicomponent Analysis. 4.3: Identification and Structure Determination. 4.4: Chemometrics -- 5: Recent Developments in UV-VIS Spectroscopy. 5.1: Dual-Wavelength Spectroscopy. 5.2: Derivative Spectroscopy. 5.3: Reflectance Spectroscopy. 5.4: Photoacoustic Spectroscopy. 5.5: Luminescence-Excitation Spectroscopy -- 6: Investigation of Equilibria. 6.1: General. 6.2: Protolytic Equilibria; pK-Values. 6.3: Complex-Forming Equilibria -- 7: Investigation of the Kinetics of Chemical Reactions. 7.1: Fundamental Equations of Kinetics. 7.2: The Number of Linearly Independent Partial Reactions. 7.3: Evaluation of Kinetic Measurements. 7.4: Examples. 7.5: Fast Reactions. 7.6: Photoreactions. 7.7: Spectrometers for Kinetic Measurements. 7.8: Determination of the Spectra of Intermediates -- 8: Evaluation of UV-VIS Spectral Bands. 8.1: Oscillator Strength and Transition Moment. 8.2: Band Analysis. 8.3: Vibrational Structure -- Index of Illustrated Absorption Spectra