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A combination of kinetic studies and EPR spectroscopy has allowed characterization of intermediate X in R2 from C. trachomatis [306]. Since R2 from C. trachomatis has a phenylalanine in the position corresponding to Tyrl22 in E. coli R2, an exceptionally stable intermediate X is formed in the Rl/R2/substrate holo-complex. Observed hyperfine couplings in a Fe-substituted sample are consistent with the presence of an Fe -Fe cluster that stores an extra electron equivalent required for catalysis [307]. While the tyrosyl radical is believed to be the initiator 

An additional reaction intermediate, labeled intermediate P, has been observed and kinetically as well as speetroseopieally eharaeterized in two variants of E. coli R2 D84E R2 and W48F/D84E R2. Intermediate P is best described as a symmetrically bridged p,-l,2-diferric peroxo complex similar to peroxo intermediates trapped in MMO ( 2.1) and A desaturase ( 4) [99,105,308-313]. 

Various studies have also foeused on probing the mechanism of the ribonucleotide reduction process [314-316]. Notably, a compound proposed to be an intermediate in the reduction process, 3 -keto-2 -deoxynucleotide, has recently been trapped and characterized by high-field EPR speetroseopy [317]. 

Application of EPR in the study of amino acid radicals in ribonucleotide reductase. Advanced EPR methods (high-field and high-frequency EPR, ENDOR, and ELDOR) have been employed extensively in the study of intermediate amino 

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Figure Bl.22.11. Near-field scanning optical microscopy fluorescence image of oxazine molecules dispersed on a PMMA film surface. Each protuberance in this three-dimensional plot corresponds to the detection of a single molecule, the different intensities of those features being due to different orientations of the molecules. Sub-diffraction resolution, in this case on the order of a fraction of a micron, can be achieved by the near-field scaiming arrangement. Spectroscopic characterization of each molecule is also possible. (Reprinted with pennission from [82]. Copyright 1996 American Chemical Society.)...

The initiation mechanism is well defined because of the recent isolation and spectroscopic characterization of the initial zwitterion from ethyl cyanoacrylate (ECA) and a phosphine [8,9]. Specifically, zwitterion 4 was prepared from the reaction of equimolar amounts of dimethylphenyl phosphine, 5, and ECA, 6,... 

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X-ray Photoelectron and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization of Cobalt Catalysts... 

IR Spectroscopic Characterization of Adsorbed Species and Processes on Surfaces... 

Spectroscopic Characterization of Organometallic Centers on Insulator Single Crystal Surfaces ... 

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When we started our experimental work, the synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of the bisphosphine 12 had been reported shortly ago by Karsch [16]. Subsequently, a new synthesis, making... 

H. Dohi, S. Kikuchi, S. Kuwahara, T. Sugai, and H. Shinohara, Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of single-wall carbon nanotubes wrapped by gly-coconjugate polymer with bioactive sugars, Chem. Phys. Lett., 428 (2006) 98-101. 

In this chapter, we will discuss electrochemical sensors based on CNTs. First, the properties and structures of CNTs, the preparation and purification of CNTs, and the advantages of electrochemical sensors based on CNTs are described, then, the fabrication of electrochemical sensors based on CNTs, applications of electrochemical sensors based on CNTs, and the spectroscopic characterization of CNT sensors are described. In conclusion, we will look into some aspects of the future direction for CNT sensors in clinical and biomedical research. 

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The direct spectroscopic characterization of la in an LFP experiment was achieved by using a different precursor. LFP of p-chlorophenol in aqueous solution produces, at the end of the laser pulse, a transient with absorption maxima at 250, 370, and 384 nm.26 These absorptions are in reasonable agreement with the strong and medium intensity absorptions of la in argon at 10 K (290 and 379 nm), especially if a solvent shift of the highly polar la in water compared to argon is taken into account. The assignment of the transient... 

The smallest [n]paracycloph ane so far isolated is the [6]paracyclo-phane, first prepared by Jones et al. in 1974. Bickelhaupt prepared and succeeded in spectroscopic characterization of [5]paracyclophane, which is stable at low temperature in solution, but not isolable. As the first example of [n paracyclophanes bridged by heteroatom chains, Ando et al. reported preparation and the crystal structure of heptasila[7]paracyclophane (47) (42) (Scheme 12). 

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