’’New Range of Fibre Optic ATR Probes for Reaction Monitoring Launched’’

Accurate, real time and in-situ reaction monitoring is critical to the effectiveness of chemical research, development and scale up in pharmaceutical, food & drink, speciality chemical and petro industries.

Fibre Photonics (UK) can now provide a range of fibre optic ATR immersion probes for real-time in situ reaction monitoring. Designed for operation in laboratory and in process environments, an ATR immersion probe allows the user to change the point of measurement from the sample chamber of a bench-to FTIR to directly in the chemistry.

As a result, the formation and reactive activity of key functional groups including carbonyl, unsaturated hydrocarbon, amine and alkyl halide containing compounds, can be accurately monitored and quantified through their individual fundamental vibrations using the broad spectral range of one single Mid-IR ATR probe. However, there is often a requirement to analyse the near infrared and visible spectral regions. Consequently, Fibre Photonics can now provide ATR immersion probes that cover this entire spectral range and that can be coupled to existing FTIR spectrometers by means of SMA connectors.