Abstract
ONE of the most remarkable features of present-day physics is the rapidity with which a novel phenomenon or effect is absorbed into the body of general doctrine, and may indeed almost immediately become a powerful tool for the investigation of intimate structural details. In the present monograph, the author has restricted himself to the study of infra-red and Raman spectra as a means to the investigation of molecular structure. The hundred and twelve pages of the book are divided between a discussion of experimental methods, of the normal vibrations of a molecule, of vibration-rotation spectra, long wave-length spectra and the correlation of infra-red and Raman spectra. An appendix gives the inter-nuclear distances and fundamental frequencies of some simple molecules as determined from infra-red and Raman spectra. Bibliographies are appended to the various chapters, and include a total of more than seventy references.
Infra-Red and Raman Spectra
By Dr. G. B. B. M. Sutherland. (Methuen's Monographs on Physical Subjects.) Pp. xi + 112. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 3s. net.
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F., A. [Short Notices]. Nature 137, 450 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137450b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137450b0