NICODOM IR Inorganics
(1803 spectra)
The infrared spectral library
"NICODOM IR Inorganics" contains 1.803 infrared spectra of inorganic
and related substances. It can be delivered as a book or a scanned book (*.pdf
file). The spectra are printed in 4 volumes. The digital searchable library is distributed
exclusively via Thermo sales channels.
Go to description of the volumes:
Volume I. contains 600 spectra of
minerals
Volume II. contains 296 spectra of
boron compounds
Volume III. contains 698 spectra of inorganic
compounds (663 in KBr pellets and 35 as nujol mulls)
Volume IV. contains 219 spectra of
inorganic commercial materials
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Brief
description of the library
Infrared spectroscopy has been commonly used for
analysis of organic molecules. Inorganic analysis has been done less
frequently. There are several reasons for that:
1. Some typical inorganic compounds are not
molecules but have ionic structure, vibrational spectra in the typical IR
region do not exist, are too weak or not characteristic enough compared to
organic molecules
2. Most inorganic compounds include heavy atoms,
their vibrations do not appear in common middle infrared region (4000 - 400
cm-1) but in far infrared region (under 400 cm-1) or Raman spectroscopy is used
3. Spectra of typical inorganic compounds have
usually broad bands compared to organic molecules
4. Inorganic chemists prefer other than spectral
analytical methods
5. Infrared spectra of inorganic compounds are more
difficult to obtain
Also the choice of measurement technique is here
more difficult than by organics. The common sampling method of KBr pellet cannot
be used in all cases, as KBr is also an inorganic compound and several types of
solid phase reactions with the sample may appear, like ion exchange,
precipitation, redox reaction and decomposition. Furthermore many inorganic
compounds are hydrates causing also technical difficulties in preparation of
KBr pellets. For this type of samples where KBr pelet technique seems to be
irreproducible nujol mulls technique is prefered. Other techniques like diffuse
reflectance or ATR are less suitable for creating a spectral library. Such
spectra would be more difficult to interpret and to reproduce as their shape is
influenced by particle size and refractive index of the sample.
From those reasons not many spectral libraries of
inorganic compounds are commercially available or they are collected on older
dispersive instrument /6/. Nevertheless infrared spectroscopy can be
successfully used for analysis of inorganic compounds and a spectral database
can be very helpful here, as shown in this work.
The purpose of this work was to build a
representative collection of IR spectra of inorganic compounds to allow
comparison of unknown inorganic sample with the database and identification of
unknown inorganic sample.
In our work the definition of inorganic compounds
was extended to more groups of compounds which can be found in modern inorganic
laboratory, like organometalic compounds, salts of organic acids, metal
complexes with organic ligands, common organic ligands, organic indicators and
dyes used in inorganic analysis and a few commonly used organic compounds.
The samples were taken from many different sources.
Most samples were available from original commercial packings with declared
purity, but some samples (typically boron compounds, metal complexes) were synthesised
in local laboratories and no information about their purity was
available.
The spectra were collected using Nicolet FTIR
spectrometers Nicolet 740, Impact 410 and Nicolet 210 equipped with Ge/KBr
beamsplitter and dGTS/KBr detector. The collection time was about 1 minute (64
scans) for background and sample. The spectrometer was purged with dry air.
To prepare KBr pellets, about 2 mg of sample were
taken, grinded 1-2 minutes together with about 200 mg of KBr (FT-IR grade,
Fluka, dried). The pellets were pressed in a dye under vacuum for 4-6 minutes
at 12t pressure to produce transparent disks about 1mm thick and 13mm in
diameter. The samples were not dried before preparation. An empty KBr pellet
was used as reference and its spectrum was subtracted from the sample spectrum
to suppress the spectral artifacts caused by KBr impurities and water.
Nujol mulls were prepared in agate mortar by mixing
the sample with nujol. The nujol spectrum was not subtracted. Liquid samples
were dropped on a KBr window which was covered by second KBr window.
This library is available
as printed book or scanned book (*.pdf file).
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NICODOM IR Inorganics, 1803 IR spectra of inorganics
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