ACD/UV-IR Manager

ACD/UV-IR Manager provides you with the capability to manipulate and manage optical spectra in a continuous range from 1 cm^-1 to 100,000 cm^-1 (100 to 10,000,000 nm). We chose the name UV-IR to emphasize the extent of the spectral range covered, which spans the entire optical spectroscopy region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This range encompasses the Ultraviolet, Visible, Near-, Middle-, Far-Infrared, and Raman techniques, and even spills over into the Microwave region. ACD/UV-IR Manager is designed to handle with equal ease absorption, reflectance, fluorescence, phosphorescence spectra, as well as other more specialized techniques like circular dichroism (CD) and spectroscopic ellipsometry. By offering an extensive tool set to treat all these different optical spectroscopy techniques within a single interface, ACD/UV-IR Manager provides a general solution for all your optical spectroscopy needs.

ACD/UV-IR Manager is composed of three tightly integrated industry-leading modules for universal analytical data processing, for storing chemical data in a database, and for chemical drawing and reporting. The high degree of integration between these is demonstrated by the following series of examples that show inter- and intra-module connections. First, attach a drawn chemical structure to an infrared or Raman spectrum. Next, click Verify to check the structure-spectrum correspondence between functional groups and the peaks in the middle-IR or Raman region with the built-in functional group analysis algorithm. Then, lasso a substructure therein, and assign it to an interactively suggested spectrum band. Finally, click Copy-to-Report to lay out the spectrum, its chemical structure, assignment tables, as well as comments from the analysts. All of these report elements can be pasted directly into other software applications, significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to format reports.

ACD/UV-IR Manager is augmented with the ability to work with data from series and hyphenated techniques such as HPLC/DAD and TGA/FT-IR. Interactive conversion and processing of series can be done in one step with respect to most processing and analysis functions. Further, univariate calibrations can be performed interactively and easily with respect to concentration series. Advanced visualization and data extraction of minplot, maxplot, or selected slices for hyphenated data can be performed through the ACD/Labs Matrix module. For hyphenated data, it can be particularly useful to organize and store related analytical curves, chromatographic, and spectral data in a clear hierarchical system developed for the ACD/SpecManager* database.

To improve report access and dissemination, reports can be easily saved in Adobe PDF file format from the ACD/ChemSketch module. Furthermore, finding reports is made easier by the ability to perform structure-based searches through PDF, *.sk2, or Microsoft Office-based files located on your computer that contain structures from the ACD/ChemSketch report editor.

See the Key Capabilities of ACD/UV-IR Manager, which include vibrational interpretation tools, multivariate curve resolution, multilayer annotation, and structural intelligence.

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*Additional ACD/SpecManager modules are required for creating links to NMR and mass spectra, chromatograms, and other analytical curves not supported directly by ACD/UV-IR Manager.