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Manuel Aparicio-Conde

How can I convert epsilon to transmission or absorbance in IR...

Arbaz Khan  Follow

I might add that in practice the calculated transition intensities are embarked with such a substantial residual error that you may safely forget about comparing their absolute values to the experimental ones. This is the primary source of ambiguity here.
Also, how often do you measure vibrational spectra of isolated molecules? Because this is what you get in the calculations. This disregards all the dynamics occurring in real system, e.g. vibrational dephasing.
Stick to the relative intensities (that is one calculated peak vs the others) as these may be reasonably accurately resembling the analogous relationships observable in the experimental spectra.

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Angelo Paredes  Follow

Gaussian should be able to give out either the functions of the absorption index, or the absorption coefficients etc. It could not calculate an absorption (absorbance?) spectrum otherwise. I hope someone familiar with Gaussian will help you.

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Alec Smith  Follow

the UV-vis plot obtained is epsilon vs wavelength plot. I tried using the equation from the gaussian page of UV-Vis spectra, but the value deviates from the value from the plot. Thanks Thomas MayerHofer.

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Bill Jones  Follow

its an absorption spectra obtained using gaussian 16, using TD-DFT methods. from the plot I want to obtain the epsilon values of the peaks. is there a way to find it using gaussview. I tried finding in .log file. could not find anywhere.

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Alan Humason  Follow

Dear Bojidarka B. Ivanova;
Can you take the procedure how can I do this in GaussView;
Best Regards 

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Bill Chen  Follow

Be aware of the fact, that the Beer-Lambert law actually only describes propagation in but not transmission through a medium. A correct calculation of the latter does require the full dielectric function (tensor).

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Ask Jadzie  Follow

How can we get the exact value of epsilon for the peaks in UV spectra?

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Brian Asbury  Follow

you can calculate IR spectrum with Gaussian from properties , and you can convert absorbance to transmission by click option convert abs. to tra.

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Brad Moffat  Follow




Mr. Kumar,

useful software for this purpose is GaussView.
It may be found in http://www.gaussian.com/g_prod/gv5.htm.

GaussView operates with *.out file and visualizes as well 1H, 13C-NMR, Raman, NBO data, MOs and more. It is really a good software for visualization (and not only for visualization) of your theoretical data in publs.

Please find as attchment an example how looks a theoretically predicted IR-spectrum by Gaussian.


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Ahmed Jawad  Follow

Depends. What kind of spectra did you record (transmission or reflection spectra? If reflection, internal, external or diffuse? If transmission, layer or liquid sample? If layer, what kind of substrate, if liquid, what is the thickness of the cuvette etc.). In other words, to help you we would require much more information...

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