xxxii
30 D.B. Chase and T. Hirschfeld, Appl. Spectrosc., 40 (1986) 133. 31 D.B. Chase, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108 (1986) 7485. 32 V.M. Hallmark, C.G. Zimba, J.D. Swalen and J.F. Rabolt, Spectroscopy, 2 (1987) 40. 33 D.E. Jennings, A. Weber and J.W. Brault, Appl. Opt., 25 (1986) 284. 34 A. Mooradian and G.B. Wright, Solid State. Commun., 4 (1960) 431. 35 R. Zallen, M.L. Slade and A.T. Ward, Phys. Rev. B, 3 (1971) 4257. 36 R. Zallen and, M.L. Slade, Phys. Rev. B, 9 (1974) 1627. 37 R. Zallen, Phys. Rev. B, 9 (1974) 4485. 38 E.A. Vinogradov, G.N. Zhizhin, N.N. Melnik, S.I. Subbotin, et al., Phys. Stat. Solidi (B), 99 (1980) 215. 39 A. Polian, J.C. Chervin and J.M. Besson, Phys. Rev. B, 22 (1980) 3049. 40 B. Schrader and A. Simon, Proceedings of the 6th FTS Conference, August 24-28, 1987, Vienna, Mikrochimica Acta, II (1988) 227. 41 D.B. Chase, in J.G. Grasselli and B.J. Bulkin (Editors), Chemical Analysis.A Series of
Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and Its Applications, Vol. 114, Wiley, New York, 1991, p. 21. 42 J.G. Radziszewski and J. Michel, Appl. Spectrosc., 414 (1990) 44.
Appendix 43 J.P. Coates, Appl. Spectrosc. Rev., 31 (1996) 179.
Spectral interpretation literature 44 R.M. Silverstein, G.C. Bassler and T.C. Morril, Spectrometric Identification of Organic
Compounds, Wiley, New York, 1980. 45 P.C. Painter, M.M. Coleman and J.L. Koenig, Theory of Vibrational Spectroscopy and its
Application to Polymeric Materials, Wiley, New York, 1982. 46 H. Ishida (Editor) Fourier Transform Infrared Characterization of Polymers, Plenum, New York, 1987. 47 D.I. Bower and W.F. Maddams The Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polymers, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. 48 N.B. Colthup, L.H. Daly and S.E. Wiberley, Introduction to Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy, 3rd edn., Academic Press, San Diego, 1990.
xxxiii 49 W.J. Griddle and G.P. Ellis, Spectral and Chemical Characterization of Organic Compounds." A
Laboratory Handbook, Wiley, New York, 1990. 50 D. Lin-Vien, N.B. Colthup, W.G. Fateley and J.G. Grasselli, Infrared and Raman Characteristic
Group Frequencies, Academic Press, San Diego, 1991. 51 P. Hendra, C. Jones and G. Warnes, Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy. Instrumentation
and Chemical Applications, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1991. 52 G. Socrates, Infrared Characteristic Group Frequencies, 2nd edn., Wiley, New York, 1994. 53 N.P.G. Roeges, A Guide to the Complete Interpretation of Infrared Spectra of Organic
Structures, Wiley, New York, 1994. 54 A.H. Fawcett (Editor), Polymer Spectroscopy, Wiley, New York, 1996. 55 A.H. Kuptsov, J. Forensic Sci., 39 (1994) 305. 56 A.A. Tager, Physics and Chemistry of Polymers, 2nd edn., Khimia, Moscow (1968) (in Russian).
Spectral collections 57 @rouse Collection of Infrared Spectra. Book I, Polymers, Sprouse Scientific Systems, Charlotte, NC, 1987. 58 D.O. Hummel and F.K. Scholl, Atlas of Polymer and Plastics Analysis, Vols. 1-3, Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1981. 59 B. Schrader, Raman /Infrared Atlas of Organic Compounds, 2nd edn, VCH, Weinheim and New York, 1989. 60 Infrared Spectra Atlas of Polymer Additives, Vols. 1-3, Sadtler Research Laboratories (Division of Bio-Rad), Philadelphia, PA ,1987. 61 K.E. Sterin, V.T. Aleksanian and G.N. Zhizhin, Raman Spectra of Hydrocarbons: A Data
Handbook, Franklin, 1980. 62 J.D. Dillon, Infrared Spectroscopy Atlas of Polyurethanes, Technomic, 1989.
Acknowledgements The authors are very grateful to Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbH and personally to Dr J. Gast, Dr H. Somberg, Drs Uve and Barbara Eichoff for their kind attention, valuable