Importance of the Reference Spectrum on Generalized Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy: Relation between Intensity Variations and Synchronism
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Abstract
Generalized two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2D-COS) establishes correlations between intensity variations within a series of ordered spectra generated by an external perturbation. The influence of the reference spectrum on the synchronicity has been investigated by using spectral simulations and mathematical analysis. With a two-state model, it is found that for two synchronous bands, 2D asynchronous peaks appear when no reference is used, whereas when the mean or the first spectrum of the series is chosen, no asynchronous peak occurs, as expected. In the latter cases, the intensity ratio of the dynamic spectra is constant throughout the experiment, which is not the case if a reference is not subtracted. The proportionality constant is equal to the ratio of the amplitudes of the intensity variations. This result is mathematically demonstrated and generalized to any form of intensity variation: if the intensity ratio of two bands is constant throughout the experiment, the elements of the 2D asynchronous matrix are zero at any wavenumber. In addition, it is established that any spectrum of the series can be used as a reference to evidence the occurrence of synchronisms. In the case of linear intensity variations, the correlations between two bands are always synchronous as long as a spectrum of the series or the mean spectrum is chosen as the reference. Thus, it is very difficult to determine whether the intensity variations have different variation rates. All the conclusions drawn from the mathematical analysis are confirmed with spectral simulations. These mathematical considerations are applied to absorbance spectra.
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| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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