Atlas of Plastics Additives: Analysis by Spectrometric Methods [Paperback]

A must for experts in industry, this book describes the application of vibrational (FTIR, UV, Raman) and mass spectrometries and other instrumental techniques for identification and structure elucidation of plastics additives. Numerous tables and figures compress the state of the art.

Instrumental, especially spectrometric methods are widely used in analytical laboratories for identification and quantitative determination of complex organic systems. The author has shown this in earlier works for polymeric materials of all kind. In this book he describes the application of vibrational (FTIR, UV, Raman) and mass spectrometries and of other instrumental techniques for identification and structure elucidation of plastics additives, e.g., antioxidants, stabilisers, plasticisers, pigments, rubber chemicals. The state of the art is compressed in numerous tables and figures; these also allow the interpretation of spectra. Especially remarkable is a collection of the FTIR spectra of 780 selected additives, together with structures and legends. This book is especially useful for the practitioner in plastics processing and production as well as plastics additives industry for the quality control of educts.A Therory und Practical Applications.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Extraction, Solution Precipitation and Separation of Additives.- 2.1 Extraction.- 2.2 Solution Precipitation.- 2.3 Separation of Additive Mixtures into Components.- 3 Infrared Spectrometry.- 3.1 Fundamentals.- 3.2 Sample Preparation and Measurement.- 3.3 Conventional and Computer-Supported Interpretation of IR Spectra.- 3.4 Some Aspects of FTIR Spectrometry.- 3.4.1 Storage of Spectra in the Computer.- 3.4.2 The Search for Similarity and Equality (Identity).- 3.5 Recent Work in IR Spectrometry of Additives.- 3.5.1 Additives with Preventive or Curative Properties.- 3.5.1.1 Empirical IR Band Assignments.- 3.5.1.2 Separation of Additives and Identification by (FT)IR Spectrometry.- 3.5.1.3 Solubility oflc-