| Abstract: | We present new ideas underlying a self‐modelling factor analytical method which allows to extract pure component spectra and the associated concentration profiles from a set of spectroscopic measurements. The usefulness of the method is demonstrated and compared with established tools for model problems and for a system from catalytic hydroformylation by Rhodium complexes both with overlapping component spectra. Self‐modelling methods tend to minimize the overlap of the recovered spectra, which can result in an unwanted distortion of the spectra and concentration profiles. For strongly overlapping spectra a penalty condition on a specific singular value of the absorptivity matrix factor and a global decomposition approach are appropriate tools to construct improved factorizations. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
