FT-IR Workshop

An Intensive Course in

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Principles, Instrumentation

& Practices

Lectures

The workshop will feature lectures - 18 hours total on:

• 1. An introduction to Multiplex Spectrometry
• 2. FT-IR Spectrometry - Theory The Michelson Interferometer. Introduction to the Fourier Transform Phase. Spectral Resolution - Instrumental Considerations Laser Reference Signal and Wavenumber Accuracy.
• 3. FT-IR Spectrometer Design Interferometer Designs - Michelson, Cube-Corner, Refractive Scanning, Dynamic Alignment. Spectrometer Components - Sources, Optics, Detectors. Factors affecting Signal-to-noise Ratio. Step-Scan FT-IR Spectrometers - Application to Time-Resolved and Phase-Resolved Measurements.
• 4. Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy 5. Spectral Processing and Spectral Enhancement Data processing and Fourier transforms. Interpolation, Derivatives, Deconvolution.
• 6. Transmission Spectrometry Kinetics Atmospheric monitoring. Microsampling and use of a Diamond cell. Microscopes for FT-IR.
• 7. Reflection Spectrometry Specular reflection. Reflection-absorption spectrometry. Attenuated total reflection. Diffuse reflection.
• 8. Quantitative Analysis Instrumental effects on photometric accur. Single and multicomponent analysis. Least-squares, K and P matrix, PLS.
• 9. Some Common Pitfalls/Artefacts in FT-IR
• 10. Chromatography and FT-IR Optics, detectors, software. Chromatographic considerations.
• 11. Photoacoustic Spectrometry Measurements with rapid-scan interferom Measurements with step-scan spectromet
• 12. Introduction to Practical Interpretation
• 13. Spectral Resolution and Photometry Sampling. Spectral resolution. Apodisation - Mathematical considerations. Photometric accuracy.
• 14. Synopsis of Laboratory Requirements
• 15. Testing Your Spectrometer
• 16. Remote Sampling and Process Monitoring Flow and static systems. Infrared fibres.
• 17. Course Summary, Round-up Discussions.

In addition the workshop will feature 8 Practical and Tutorial Sessions, totalling about 12 hours, to complement and exemplify the lecture contents.

The workshop will commence on Monday June 2 1997 with Registration between 10.00 and 11.00 am and close at 12.30 pm on Friday June 6 1997. Peter Griffiths and Jim de Haseth have taught more than 25 workshops and short courses on FT-IR spectrometry, both in the USA and Europe. The first edition of their book "Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry" is now in its eleventh printing, and they are working on the second edition.

Additional evening lectures 9 and 12 will be given by John Chalmers (IRDG Chairman), ICI Plc and Geoff Dent, Zeneca Specialities, respectively.

Scarman House is the largest of the University of Warwick’s three purpose-built Residential Training Centres. All bedrooms are en-suite, each equipped for private study. All have direct dial telephone, radio alarm, colour television, hair dryer and tea and coffee making facilities.

Peter Griffiths is currently a Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Idaho. After short stints with two small businesses (Digilab and Sadtler Research), he held a faculty position at Ohio University from 1972 to 1982, before moving to the University of California, Riverside, where he spent seven years, prior to taking up his present position. He has over 200 publications on the application of FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy to a wide variety of analytical problems. Peter has received several awards for his work, including in 1995 the Fritz Pregl Medal of the Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry; he was President of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in 1994.

James de Haseth received his PhD at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, before spending eighteen months as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Alabama, prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama in 1979. In 1983, Jim joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry. Jim has also published a wide variety of areas that pertain to FT-IR spectrometry. He is the General Chairman of the 11th International Conference on Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, to be held in Athens, Georgia, August 1997.

Peter and Jim’s publications on the applications of FT-IR and Raman Spectroscopy are wide and diverse, and include areas such as remote sampling methods, including the identification of hazardour wastes, open-path atmospheric monitoring, infrared spectroelectrochemistry, the hyphenation of chromatographs and FT-IR spectrometers, mathematical methods to process infrared data, vibrational circular dichroism and the study of protein conformations.

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