1. An Introduction to Ultraviolet/visible Molecular Absorption Spectrometry

2. 1 Measurement of transmittance and absorbance
2 Beer’s law
3 The effects of instrumental noise on spectrophotometric analysis
4 Instrumentation

3. 1 Measurement of Transmittance and Absorbance

4. 2 Beer’s law 2-1 application of beer’s law to mixtrures
2-2 limitation to beer’s law

5. 3 The Effects of Instrumental Noise on spectrophotometric Analysis
3-1 instrumental noise as a function of transmittance
3-2 sources of instrumental noise
3-3 effect of slit width on absorbance measurements
3-4 effect of scattered radiation at wavelength extremes of an instrument

6. 4 Instrumentation 4-1 instrument components 4-2 types of instruments
4-3 some typical instruments

7. Applications of Ultraviolet/visible Molecular Absorption Spectrometry

8. 1 the magnitude of molar absorptivities
2 absorbing species
3 application of absorption measurement to qualitative analysis
4 quantitative analysis by absorption measurements
5 Photometric titrations
6 Photoacoustic spectroscopy

9. 1 the magnitude of molar absorptivities

10. 2 Absorbing Species
2-1 absorbing species containing π,σ,and n electrons
2-2 absorption involving d and f electrons
2-3 charge-transfer absorption

11. 3 application of absorption measurement to qualitative analysis
3-1 methods of plotting spectral data
3-2 solvents
3-3 detection of functional groups

12. 4 Quantitative Analysis by Absorption Measurements
4-1 scope
4-2 procedural details
4-3 derivative and dual-wavelength spectrophotometr

13. 5 Photometric titrations
5-1 titration curve
5-2 instrumentation
5-3 application of photometric titrations

14. 6 Photoacoustic Spectroscopy
6-1 the photoacoustic effect
6-2 photoacoustic spectra
6-3 instruments
6-4 applications