Basic Literature for UV/Vis Spectroscopy

You will find information about the basics of UV/Vis spectroscopy in all standard text books on analytical chemistry and spectroscopy, as well as in many text books about physics or physical chemistry. Only very rarely nowadays, scientific journals publish articles on UV/Vis applications or on UV/Vis instrumentation. However, an overview on new techniques and applications is presented every year in the review editions of ‘Analytical Chemistry’. As a rule the instrument manufacturers of UV/Vis instrumentation will be able to provide general and specific publications, see for example the web site of Thermo Scientific.

Below is a selected list of monographs about UV/Vis spectroscopy, both in German and in English:

Perkampus, H.H.   UV-VIS-Spektroskopie und ihre Anwendung
Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1986)

Schmidt, W.   Optische Spektroskopie
VCH, Weinheim (2000)
ISBN 3-527-29828-2

Gauglitz, G.   Praktische Spektroskopie
Attempo, Tübingen (1983)

Gottwald, W.; Heinrich, K.H.    UV/VIS-Spektroskopie für Anwender
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (1998)
ISBN 3-527-28760-4

Hampel, B.   Absorptionspektroskopie im ultravioletten und sichtbaren Spektralbereich
Vieweg, Braunschweig (1962)

Derkosch, J.  Absorptionsspektralanalyse im ultravioletten, sichtbaren und infraroten Gebiet
Akad. Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt (1967)

Knowles, A.; Burgess, C. (Eds.)    Practical Absorption Spectrometry
Chapman and Hall, London (1986)
ISBN 0 412 24390 3

Knowles, A.; Burgess, C. (Eds.)    Standards in Absorption Spectrometry
Chapman and Hall, London (1981)
ISBN 0 412 22470 4

Edisbury, J.R.    Practical Hints on Absorption Spectrometry
Hilger and Watts, London (1966)

Rao, C.N.R.    Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy
Butterworths, London (1967)

Sinclair, L.; Denney, C.    Visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy
John Wiley, Sussex, (1987)

Stern, E.S.; Timmons, C.J.    Introduction to Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy in Organic Chemistry
Arnold, London (1970)

Thomas, M.J.K.    Ultraviolet & Visible Spectroscopy
Wiley, Sussex (1996)

Sommer, L.    Analytical Absorption Spectrophotometry in the Visible and Ultraviolet
(Studies in Analytical Chemistry 8)
Elsevier, Amsterdam (1989)

Bashford, C.L.; Harris D.A.    Spectrophotometry & spectrofluorometry – a practical approach
IRL Press

Jaffe, H.H.; Orchin, M.    Theory and Applications of Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
John Wiley, New York (1951)

Lever, A.B.P.    Inorganic Electronic Spectroscopy
Elsevier, Amsterdam (1968)

Görog, S.    Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometry in Pharmaceutical Analysis
CRC Press (1995)
ISBN 0-894-38691-8

Burgess, S.; Jones D.G.    Spectrophotometry, Luminescence and Color; Science and Compliance
Elsevier, Amsterdam (1995)
ISBN 0-444-81718-2