FTIR Tutorial

Here are some links and references you may find useful

• Books
  
  
  • Socrates, George , Infrared and Raman Characteristic Group Frequencies
    Tables and Charts , 3rd Edition, Wiley (2001). Socrates @ Amazon.com

  - A great help in assigning both infrared and Raman peaks - similar to Bellamy, but more modern. Excellent charts for band assignment. Highly recommended

  • Bellamy, L. J.. - Advances in infrared group frequencies. - London : Methuen, 1968. Advances in infrared group frequencies @ Amazon.com

  - This book contains highly detailed information on infrared frequencies, very useful for peak assignment.

  • Sadtler Research Laboratories. - The Sadtler handbook of infrared spectra. - Philadelphia : Sadtler Research Laboratories, 1978. Sadtler Handbook @ Amazon.com

  - Useful reference spectra.

  • Banwell, C. N. and Elaine McCash. - Fundamentals of molecular spectroscopy. - 4th ed. - London : McGraw-Hill, 1994.
  Banwell @ Amazon.com

  - Good general text covering theory of several spectroscopies.

  • Hollas, J. M.. - Modern Spectroscopy. - 4th ed. - Wiley, 2004. Modern Spectroscopy @ Amazon.com

  - Detailed text covering several spectroscopies including infrared, and the theory behind them.

  • Williams, Dudley H., - Spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry. - 5th ed., London : McGraw-Hill, 1995 .(In library) Williams and Fleming @ Amazon.com

  - Another good, simple text, covering lots of useful techniques.

• Web Links
  
  
• The Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy - An excellent online IR and Raman Journal
  
  
• KBR Disk technique - a very good online article at IJVS, showing you how to prepare KBr disks
  
  
• Spectroscopy Europe - the website of the magazine Spectroscopy Europe
  
  
• Society for Applied Spectroscopy - the publishers of Applied Spectroscopy
  
  
• Infrared Windows - Useful list of the IR windows of various materials
  
  
• Warren Vidrine's Page - with IR correlation charts, and information on IR Optical Materials
  
  
• Spectroscopy Wizard - a quick lookup table to help you identify IR peaks
  
  
• Reference Spectra - IR spectra at IJVS
  
  
• Thermo Scientific - the manufacturers of the Mattson RS/1 spectrometer.
  
  
  
• Infrared and Raman Users Group - site of international users group - includes a searchable databse of spectra.
  
  
• FDM Reference Spectra Databases - searchable database - commercial but with a free trial available