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Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy

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Being an undergraduate student of the Kazakh National State University, Almaty, Kazakstan, CIS, Faculty if Physics, I dealed with spectroscopy. This book was easy to read,perfectly composed and contained all information I need for my research. It stressed upon physical sence of the phenomena and had good illustration material.

I must say that I've read it in Russian. The year of edition was 1985 approximately.

I strongly recommend this book to people with or without physical background, making researshes on any kind of spectroscopy(IR,UV,NMR).

This book is well writen, well defined, compleate and aside from being mahematicall well defined gives all the qualitative understanding you need to get by. I suggest you use this to replace your confusing and overly dense spectroscopy chapters in any intro to P.chem book.

Even when this book was first published it was inadequate for use as a text in undergrad molecular spectroscopy courses.

What's wrong with it? It provides the barest, thinnest introduction to the subject that you'll ever read. The treatment of the mathematical aspect is superficial to say the least. In short, it's just not rigorous enough.

For those of you considering a proper text look at:

1. Modern Spectroscopy by J. Michael Hollas

2. Symmetry and Spectroscopy by Harris & Bertolucci

3. Spectra of Atoms and Molecules by Peter F. Bernath

4. Molecular Spectroscopy (Oxford Chemistry Primers) by John M. Brown

5. Molecules and Radiation: An Introduction to Modern Molecular Spectroscopy by Jeffrey I. Steinfeld

For those who DO want a skimpy book try:

1. Basic Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (Basic Concepts In Chemistry) by J. Michael Hollas

2. Foundations of Spectroscopy (Oxford Chemistry Primers) by Duckett & Gilbert

Check out my other reviews for other chem books.