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Senesi, N., and Steelink, C. (1989). Application of ESR spectroscopy to the study of humic substance structure. In Humic Substances II. In Search of Structure, Hayes, M. B. H., MacCarthy, R, Malcolm, R., and Swift, R., eds., John Wiley Sons, New York, pp. 373 107. 

N. M. Atherton Principles of Electron Spin Resonance, Ellis Horwood/Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstad, 1993. [185] M. C. R. Symons Application of ESR Spectroscopy to the Study of Solvation, Pure Appl. Chem. 49, 13 (1977). [186] (a) L. R. Dalton, A. Bain, and C. K. Westbrook Recent Advances in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 41, 389 (1990). (b) J. H. Freed New Techniques in ESR, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 57, 655 (2000). [187] G. R. Luck-... 

In the application of ESR spectroscopy to the study of monolayers, one is particularly interested in comparing the resulting spectra with the known state of the monolayer. To this end, it is necessary to consider the surface pressure-area curve of the system. The expected spectra... 

Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy a technique used for the study of substances that are paramagnetic, a property caused by the presence of unpaired electrons. In biological materials paramagnetism is principally found in two main types of molecular species, free radicals and those that contain a transition metal ion. Some spectroscopists confine the term ESR spectroscopy to the study of free radicals, because they have an identifiable electron spin, and use the term electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy for the study of transition metals, where paramagnetism arises from the distribution of electrons in the d orbitals. However the spectra are taken with the same instrumentation and most authors use the terms ESR- and EPR spectroscopy either interchangeably or according to personal preference. 

A limitation to the application of ESR spectroscopy to the study of short-lived tran.sient radicals is the difficulty of producing sufficient free radicals for direct observation. Spin trapping provides a simple and efficient means of overcoming this problem [83], [84]. 

Table 10.21 Application of ESR spectroscopy to the study of photodegradation of polymers-references...

Ti ossbauer spectroscopy is the term now used to describe a new ana-lytical technique which has developed using y-ray nuclear resonance fluorescence or the Mossbauer effect. For most of the time since Rudolf Mossbauer s discovery in 1958 it was the physicist who utilized this new tool. Starting approximately in 1962 some chemists realized the potential of this new technique. Since then they have applied Mossbauer spectroscopy to the study of chemical bonding, crystal structure, electron density, ionic states, and magnetic properties as well as other properties. It is now considered a complimentary tool to other accepted spectroscopic techniques such as NMR, NQR, and ESR. 

One of the first applications of electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy to catalysis was in a study of the chromia-alumina system, and during the last five years or so a number of publications have appeared dealing with this subject. The ESR spectra of supported chromia catalysts have been interpreted in terms of various chromium ion configurations or phases, each of which wiU be discussed below. It will be seen that these data substantiate many of the conclusions drawn from the magnetic susceptibility data described above, and, in addition, they provide a deeper insight into the molecular structure of chromia-alumina catalysts than can be obtained from static susceptibility measurements alone. This body of research serves as a very good illustration of the potential usefulness of ESR spectroscopy to the catalytic chemist, particularly when one considers that all of the data to be discussed below were obtained on poorly crystallized, high surface area powders, typical of practical catalysts. 

Infrared spectroscopy has been a late addition to the spectroscopic inventory of the membrane biophysicist. The reason has been the presence of water. Biological membranes not only encompass a range of widely different molecular structures, but like most biological structures require an aqueous environment whereby water is not only the solvent of choice, but often part of the molecular structure itself. Water which does not impair spectroscopic measurements using the NMR, ESR, UV or Raman techniques is a strong infrared absorber, a fact which has precluded or severely limited the application of conventional infrared spectroscopy to the study of biological systems. 

Norman and coworkers21 23 used ESR spectroscopy to study in detail the reaction of several organic compounds containing the sulfinyl moiety with the Ti(III)-H202 system in particular, dimethyl sulfoxide yields the methyl and methanesulfonyl radicals as shown in reactions 1-321. 

The compounds formed were studied by esr spectroscopy, with the magnetic parameters being used to determine the geometries. Mn02 is linear, whereas MnOa is trigonal planar (Dsh), and Mn04 is distorted tetrahedral with Csv symmetry. 

A review of the application of ESR to the study of free radical polymerisation is given by Yamada and co-workers [146]. A survey of the application ESR spectroscopy spin label/probe methods in heterogeneous polymer systems is provided by Veksli and co-workers [147]. Spin probe methods allow the study of the MD of the polymer, its free volume, phase separation and phase morphology. 

When several magnetically equivalent nuclei are present in a radical, some of the multiplet lines appear at exactly the same field position, i.e., are degenerate , resulting in variations in component intensity. Equivalent spin-1/2 nuclei such as 1H, 19F, or 31P result in multiplets with intensities given by binomial coefficients (1 1 for one nucleus, 1 2 1 for two, 1 3 3 1 for three, 1 4 6 4 1 for four, etc.). One of the first aromatic organic radical anions studied by ESR spectroscopy was the naphthalene anion radical,1 the spectrum of which is shown in Figure 2.2. The spectrum consists of 25 lines, a quintet of quintets as expected for hyperfine coupling to two sets of four equivalent protons. 

Although sulfur vulcanization has been studied since its discovery in 1839 by Goodyear, its mechanism is not well understood. Free-radical mechanisms were originally assumed but most evidence points to an ionic reaction [Bateman, 1963]. Neither radical initiators nor inhibitors affect sulfur vulcanization and radicals have not been detected by ESR spectroscopy. On the other hand, sulfur vulcanization is accelerated by organic acids and bases as well as by solvents of high dielectric constant. The ionic process can be depicted as a chain reaction involving the initial formation of a sulfonium ion (XI) by reaction of the polymer with polarized sulfur or a sulfur ion pair. The sulfonium ion reacts with a polymer molecule by hydride... 

So far, there have been no experimental tests of the subtle distinction between the parity and disjoint mnemonics on the parent PMP, which remains an unknown substance. However, a number of PMP derivatives have been synthesized, starting with the dicarbene 58, a disjoint, equal-parity structure that was studied by Itoh as early as and shown by ESR spectroscopy to consist of both triplet and... 

Several factors have contributed to this goal in the recent past development of electrochemical techniques for the study of complex reactions at solid electrodes, use of physical methods such as ESCA, Auger, LEED, etc. for the study of surfaces in the ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) environment and in situ techniques under the same conditions as the electrode reaction. Ellipsometry, electroreflectance, Mossbauer, enhanced Raman, infrared, electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopies and measurement of surface resistance and local changes of pH at surfaces were incorporated to the study of electrode kinetics. 

The corrinoid-mediated reduction of polyhaloethenes has been the subject of a recent study, which reports reaction via homolytic C-halogen bond fission. The elimination of a further halogen radical affords haloalkynes, which lead to acetylene itself.56 The electron transfer-induced reductive cleavage of alkyl phenyl ethers with lithium naphthalenide has been re-examined in a study which showed that it is possible to reverse regioselectivity of the cleavage (i.e. ArOR to ArH or ArOH) by introduction of a positive charge adjacent to the alkyl ether bond.57 A radical intermediate has been detected by ESR spectroscopy in the reduction of imines to amines with formic acid58 which infers reacts takes place via Lukasiewicz s mechanism.59... 

Based on these results we used electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy to study the formation and stability of free radicals in paper samples after irradiation. Free radicals formed during irradiation but disappeared during storage. Figure 5 shows the... 

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