Electron Spin Resonance

• Chapter 1: What is ESR Spectroscopy;The ESR Experiment;Sensitivity;Saturation;Nuclear Hyperfine Interaction;Operation of an ESR Spectrometer;Optimization of Operating Parameters;Applications of ESR Spectroscopy;Electronic Structure Determination;Analytical Applications;Determination of Rates;References;Chapter 2: Isotropic ESR Spectra;Line Positions in Isotropic Spectra;Hyperfine Coupling Parameters;Second-order Splittings;Spin Hamiltonian Parameters from Spectra;Interpretation of Isotropic Parameters;Linewidths in Isotropic Spectra;Incomplete Averaging of Anisotropies;Rates of Fluxionality from Linewidths;Organic Radical Reactions;Analysis of Isotropic ESR Spectra;Preliminary Examination of the Spectrum;What do you expect to see?;Are the Gross Features of the Spectrum Consistent with the Model?;An Example;Detailed Analysis for Determination of Parameters;Computation of Multiplet Intensity Ratios;Multiplet Patterns Due to Isotopomers;Second-order Shifts in Line Positions;Related Techniques (ENDOR);References;Chapter 3: Second-order Effects on Line Positions;Understanding the Variation in Line Widths;Puzzling Line Shapes;Use of ESR Spectra to Determine Formation Constants;References;Chapter 4: Introduction: Solid-State ESR Spectra;Spectra of Dilute Single Crystals;Analysis of Frozen Solution Spectra;Interpretation of the g-Matrix;Interpretation of the Hyperfine Matrix;Organometallic Examples;A Low-spin Manganese(II) Complex;Some Cobalt(0) Radical Anions;Organic Examples of Solid-State ESR Spectra;Irradiated Single Crystal Of Glycylglycine;X-irradiated Single Crystal of Methylene Diphosphonic Acid;Non-Coincident Matrix Axes;Symmetry Considerations;Experimental Determination of Matrix Axis Orientations;Organometallic Examples of Non-Coincident Matrix Axes;A Chromium Nitrosyl Complex;Iron Pentacarbonyl Ions;Another Low-Spin Manganese(II) Complex;Chromium(I) Piano-Stool Complex;[(RCCR')Co2(CO)6]- and [SFeCo2(CO)9]-;(o-xylylene)-Mn(dmpe)2;Cobalt Dithiolene Complexes;"g-Strain";References;Chapter 5: Bloch's Phenomenological Model;Derivation of the Bloch Equations;Steady-State Solution;Chemical Exchange-The Modified Bloch Equations;Further Discussion of Line Shapes;Applications of the Modified Bloch Equations;Alternating Linewidth Effects;Spin Labels;References;Chapter 6: Biradicals;Exchange Coupling;Organic Triplet-State Molecules and the Dipolar Interaction;Organic Triplet-State Molecules;Transition Metal Complexes with S>1/2;Spin-Orbit Coupling;High-Spin Transition Metal Ions;Examples: K3Cr(CN)6 and K4V(CN)6;References;Chapter 7;Second-order Perturbation Theory Treatment of Spin Hamiltonian with;Non-Coincident g- and A-Axes;The Electron Zeeman Term;Nuclear Hyperfine Interaction;Perturbation Theory Treatment of Hyperfine Term;Example of Application of These Results;Quadrupole Coupling;Perturbation Theory Treatment of Quadrupole Term;Example of Application of Analysis of Quadrupole Effects;References

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