Subsections
[Cr:3, Lc:2, Tt:1, Lb:0]
- Introduction to spectroscopy: Electromagnetic spectrum, representation
of spectra, resolution and sensitivity, width and intensity of
spectral transitions, fourier transform spectroscopy.
- Microwave spectroscopy: Interaction of radiation with a rotating
molecule, rotational spectra of rigid diatomic molecules, isotope
effect, intensity of rotational lines, non-rigid rotor.
- Infrared spectroscopy: The vibrating diatomic molecule, diatomic
vibrating rotor, vibration-rotation spectrum of polyatomic molecules.
- Raman spectroscopy: Theory of Raman scattering, rotational Raman
spectra, vibrational Raman spectra, mutual exclusion principle,
structure determination using Raman and IR spectroscopy.
- Electronic spectroscopy of atoms and diatomic molecules. Photoelectron
spectroscopy, Auger spectroscopy, and ESCA. Zeeman effect, the
influence of nuclear spin.
- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy: NMR & EPR, the concept of spin,
principles of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, principles of
electron spin resonance spectroscopy.
- Types of magnetic behavior, magnetic moment and molar susceptibility,
volume susceptibility measurement. High-spin low-spin crossover with
examples and applications.
- Principles and applications of diffraction methods in chemistry.
Single crystal and powder samples. Space lattice, unit cell, Laue
symmetry, point groups and space groups, Bravais lattices, Bragg's
equation. Miller indices and their relationship with diffraction angle
and unit cell parameters. Reciprocal space lattice. Brief discussion
on selection of a single crystal, data collection and structure
solution.
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Spectroscopy, 4th Ed, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi (1995).
- D. L. Pavia, G. M. Lampman, G. S. Kriz, Introduction to
Spectroscopy, 3rd Ed, Cengage, India Edition (2001).
- W. Kemp, Organic Spectroscopy, 3rd Ed, Palgrave, New York
(1991).
- I. N. Levine, Physical Chemistry, 5th Ed, Tata McGraw-Hill, New
Delhi (2007).
