Vibration-Rotation Spectroscopy

Since the general background of vibration-rotation spectroscopy has quite recently been brought up to date in reviews of this series it seems possible to dispense with any general introduction to this subject. In this review it is proposed to indicate some present trends and to give a reasonably complete though not exhaustive account of recent contributions of general interest in the fields of infrared, microwave, and Raman spectroscopy. This account will largely be confined to the year 1954, which will be covered as far as certain practical limitations will permit. Though it will have been noted that the first and last of the fields mentioned were not reviewed in this series in the previous year, the greater part of that period is adequately covered by the comprehensive reviews on Infrared Spectroscopy by Gore (1), and Raman Spectroscopy by Stature (2)