I have plotted absorption spectra in terms of absorbance in arb units. How can I represent the same graph in terms of the molar extinction coefficient?
Io and I are the intensities of incident and emergent light, respectively; d is the thickness, in cm, of the material or optical path length in the medium; C is the concentration of the absorbing species in moles per litre or gm ions per litre.
Optical absorption coefficient cannot be determined from a powder diffusion spectra. The theory shows that in that case one can obtain only alpha/S, where S is coefficient of dispersion: see e.g. Judd and Wyshezci (1975).