The Spectroscopy and Kinetics Unit gives scientific support to the institute research groups in spectroscopic techniques and in the study of reaction mechanisms focusing on reaction rates measurements.
In addition, the Unit collaborates with the research groups in the design and the set up of the kinetic experiments in order to elucidate the reaction mechanism of the systems under study. For these experiments the instrumentation of the unit, as well as other devices available in the institute, are used.
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The current instrumentation of the Unit, allows acquisition of UV-Vis, FTIR, FT-Raman, Circular Dichroism and Fluorescence spectra as well as polarimmetric measurements. Moreover, the Unit trains the users in order to achieve optimal use of the instruments.
From a mechanistic point of view, the tasks of the unit involve treatment, fitting and interpretation of the kinetic data. Among other devices, the unit has a stopped flow system to measure fast reaction rates in the millisecond range at different temperatures (from -90 to +100 ºC).