Th e chemical composition and sensory characteristics vary signifi cantly within different honey types. In order to determine botanical origin of honey, it is necessary to conduct rather complicated and time consuming analytical methods. IR spectroscopy has not yet been experimentally explored for honey analysis in Croatia, so the aim of this study was to determine claimed botanical origin of h...

Protein dynamics and interactions in myoglobin (Mb) were characterized via two vibrational dynamics labels (VDLs): a genetically incorporated site-specific azide (Az) bearing unnatural amino acid (AzPhe43) and an active site CO ligand. The Az-labeled protein was studied using ultrafast two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) vibrational echo spectroscopy. CO bound at the active site of the heme serves...

a novel complex of cadmium (ii) [cdl0.5(no3)(h2o)](1), l= n,n-bis (o-hydroxyacetophenone) ethylene diamine, have been synthesized as single crystal and nano size. compound 1 in nano size was obtained under sonochemical irradiation and has been characterized by ir, 1hnmr spectroscopy, x-ray powder diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem). the gray single crystal of compound 1 has...

Several illustrative examples are presented in this tutorial review to demonstrate the utility of 2D correlation spectroscopy, especially in life science applications. A set of IR spectra for a model protein system, which is undergoing complex thermally induced changes in the secondary structures, is analyzed by 2D correlation spectroscopy. The method of constructing 2D correlation maps from te...

The study of organic matter content and composition in source rocks using the methods geochemistry is an important part unconventional reservoir characterization. aim this work was structural group analysis directly rock combination with a quantitative assessment surface distribution sample by FTIR spectroscopy microscopy. We have developed new experimental procedures for semi-quantitative cont...

Ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) is a promising tool for the investigation of molecular structures [1-3] and their equilibrium fluctuations [2, 4]. Similar to 2D-NMR spectroscopy [5], cross-peaks between coupled states emerge in 2D-IR spectra, and contain structural information [2, 6]. The outstanding feature of 2D-IR spectroscopy is the combination of its structure resol...

Infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy based on scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) provides intrinsic chemical specificity with nanometer spatial resolution. Here we use incoherent infrared radiation from a 1400 K thermal blackbody emitter for broadband infrared (IR) nano-spectroscopy. With optimized interferometric heterodyne signal amplification we achieve few-monolaye...

During this study, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and Raman spectroscopy were applied to 55 samples of counterfeit and imitations of Viagra and 39 samples of counterfeit and imitations of Cialis. The aim of the study was to investigate which of these techniques and associations of them were the best for discriminating genuine from counterfeit a...