Views Total views. Actions Shares. No notes for slide. Molar extinction coefficient 1. Solvent Dhruv Sharma 2. How to find Molar Extinction Coefficient? Absorbance A , is a measurement without any units, obtained from a spectrophotometer at a particular wavelength of light. Path length is usually considered to be 1. Concentration of the substance c should also be known. Again here path length will be 1. Thus, the slope will give you the molar absorptivity.
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The higher the molar absorptivity, the higher the absorbance. Therefore, the molar absorptivity is directly proportional to the absorbance. If we return to the experiment in which a spectrum recording the absorbance as a function of wavelength is recorded for a compound for the purpose of identification, the concentration and path length are constant at every wavelength of the spectrum. The only difference is the molar absorptivities at the different wavelengths, so a spectrum represents a plot of the relative molar absorptivity of a species as a function of wavelength.
Measuring the concentration of a species in a sample involves a multistep process. One important consideration is the wavelength of radiation to use for the measurement. Remember that the higher the molar absorptivity, the higher the absorbance. What this also means is that the higher the molar absorptivity, the lower the concentration of species that still gives a measurable absorbance value.
The second step of the process is to generate a standard curve. The standard curve is generated by preparing a series of solutions usually with known concentrations of the species being measured. Every standard curve is generated using a blank. The blank is some appropriate solution that is assumed to have an absorbance value of zero.
It is used to zero the spectrophotometer before measuring the absorbance of the standard and unknown solutions. Assuming a linear standard curve is obtained, the equation that provides the best linear fit to the data is generated. If the path length is known, the slope of the line can then be used to calculate the molar absorptivity. The third step is to measure the absorbance in the sample with an unknown concentration. The absorbance of the sample is used with the equation for the standard curve to calculate the concentration.
The way to think about this question is to consider the expression we wrote earlier for the absorbance. Since stray radiation always leaks in to the detector and presumably is a fixed or constant quantity, we can rewrite the expression for the absorbance including terms for the stray radiation. At low concentration, not much of the radiation is absorbed and P is not that much different than P o. If the sample is now made a little more concentrated so that a little more of the radiation is absorbed, P is still much greater than P S.
As the concentration is raised, P, the radiation reaching the detector, becomes smaller. If the concentration is made high enough, much of the incident radiation is absorbed by the sample and P becomes much smaller. At its limit, the denominator approaches P S , a constant.
The ideal plot is the straight line. Spectroscopic instruments typically have a device known as a monochromator. There are two key features of a monochromator. The first is a device to disperse the radiation into distinct wavelengths. You are likely familiar with the dispersion of radiation that occurs when radiation of different wavelengths is passed through a prism.
The term effective bandwidth defines the packet of wavelengths and it depends on the slit width and the ability of the dispersing element to divide the wavelengths. The important thing to consider is the effect that this has on the power of radiation making it through to the sample P o. Reducing the slit width will lead to a reduction in P o and hence P. An electronic measuring device called a detector is used to monitor the magnitude of P o and P. All electronic devices have a background noise associated with them rather analogous to the static noise you may hear on a speaker and to the discussion of stray radiation from earlier that represents a form of noise.
P o and P represent measurements of signal over the background noise. As P o and P become smaller, the background noise becomes a more significant contribution to the overall measurement. Ultimately the background noise restricts the signal that can be measured and detection limit of the spectrophotometer. Therefore, it is desirable to have a large value of P o. Since reducing the slit width reduces the value of P o , it also reduces the detection limit of the device.
Selecting the appropriate slit width for a spectrophotometer is therefore a balance or tradeoff of the desire for high source power and the desire for high monochromaticity of the radiation. It is not possible to get purely monochromatic radiation using a dispersing element with a slit.
Molar absorptivity compensates for this by dividing by both the concentration and the length of the solution that the light passes through.
It is an intrinsic property of chemical species that is dependent upon their chemical composition and structure. The molar extinction coefficient is frequently used in spectroscopy to measure the concentration of a chemical in solution. August Beer Formulated by German mathematician and chemist August Beer in , it states that the absorptive capacity of a dissolved substance is directly proportional to its concentration in a solution.
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