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Instrument
Instrument
There are several Perkin Elmer Spectrum 2 InfraRed instruments in the department and have sinc ebeen replaced in teahcing labs by the Bruker Alpha II's. These can operate either with an ATR (UATR - Single Reflection Diamond) attachment, or in transmission mode.
Specification
Specification
Wavelength range
Wavelength range
ATR: 4000 - 400 cm-1
Transmission: 8300 - 350 cm-1
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution
0.5 cm⁻¹ using J-Stop cards
Instructions
Instructions
ATR
ATR
Solid samples
Solid samples
Perkin Elmer Spectrum 2 - ATR Student instructions (PDF) ↓
Liquid samples
Liquid samples
Please ask a technician to be shown how to record a sample.
Transmission
Transmission
Gas cells
Gas cells
Please ask a technician to be shown how to record a sample.
Liquid samples
Liquid samples
Please ask a technician to be shown how to prepare and record a sample.
Nujol Mulls
Nujol Mulls
Please ask a technician to be shown how to prepare and record a sample.
Disc Press
Disc Press
Please ask a technician to be shown how to prepare and record a sample.
Accessing data
Accessing data
Data from the IR spectrometers is automatically made available at ftp://chemtl.york.ac.uk/IRB/. Data is available in the following formats:
PDF
PDF
An autogenerated PDF spectrum printout.
CSV
CSV
Raw text format date of transmission and wavenumber values. Can be opened directly in Excel or other data manipulation packages.
SP
SP
The .sp files are the native file format for the Perkin Elmer Spectrum software. These can be opened and edited in Spectrum, or can alternatively be opened in ACD/Spectrus.
Videos
Videos
Recording an ATR-IR of a Solid on a Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 2
Recording an ATR-IR of a Solid on a Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 2
Recording an ATR-IR of a Liquid on a Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 2
Recording an ATR-IR of a Liquid on a Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 2
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