Abstract: | In order to clarify the possibilities of classifying the IR spectra of organic compounds by methods of multidimensional statistics, with the object of casting further light on the relationship between the structure of a compound and noncharacteristic spectral criteria, an experiment was carried out, in which methods of factor analysis were applied to the entire set of spectra. A clusterization was obtained of the original spectra conforming with the chemical classification of the compounds studied and universal vectors for transition into a low-dimensionality space, where the spectra studied are described by 11 factors instead of the initial 65. The concept of spatial identification of the spectra is discussed.K. A. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 94–100, January–February, 1993. |