Subject paramagnetic

After the discovery of the oscillatory magnetic interlayer coupling between ferromagnetic films separated by a paramagnetic spacer these sandwiched systems have been a subject of intense research. There have been many attempts to explain the magnetic interlayer coupling and a great number of theoretical and experimental studies have been performed . ... 

The failures of CeOj alone or RhjOj alone to yield RO or 01-type paramagnetic centers, when subjected to the same experimental strategy as that which did yield such centers over RhOj/CeOj after T > 573 K, pointed to synergism between the RhO, and CeO components of the latter in producing at 300 K the dioxygen species required for 01 and for RO-type signals, possibly through the intermediacy of Rh-O-o-Ce and Rh-O-O-Ce interfacial sites. 

The chapter Electron Spin Resonance in Catalysis by Lunsford was prompted by the extensive activity in this field since the publication of an article on a similar subject in Volume 12 of this serial publication. This chapter is limited to paramagnetic species that are reasonably well defined by means of their spectra. It contains applications of ESR technique to the study of adsorbed atoms and molecules, and also to the evaluation of surface effects. The application of ESR to the determination of the state of transition metal ions in catalytic reactions is also discussed. 

At the beginning of this century slow magnetic relaxation in the paramagnetic phase of a ID system was reported for a Co2+ nitronyl-nitroxide chain [58]. The dynamics was under many respects very similar to that of SMMs and these ID systems were later named SCM to underline the analogies [9]. Since then an intense research activity, though not as spread out as for SMMs, has been devoted to SCMs. The interested reader can find extensive literature on the subject, including exhaustive reviews and a book chapter [59-63]. The aim here is to provide some basic concepts of the phenomenon and to introduce some selected examples of SCMs based on lanthanide ions. 

Early attempts to fathom organic reactions were based on their classification into ionic (heterolytic) or free-radical (homolytic) types.1 These were later subclassified in terms of either electrophilic or nucleophilic reactivity of both ionic and paramagnetic intermediates - but none of these classifications carries with it any quantitative mechanistic information. Alternatively, organic reactions have been described in terms of acids and bases in the restricted Bronsted sense, or more generally in terms of Lewis acids and bases to generate cations and anions. However, organic cations are subject to one-electron reduction (and anions to oxidation) to produce radicals, i.e.,... 

The primary measure of the amount of free radical must depend on those properties unambiguously due to the unpaired electron. In the past the most common method has been the measurement of the paramagnetic susceptibility, now subject to difficulties of quantitative interpretation. The method of paramagnetic resonance absorption is... 

When one of the aromatic groups of the triarylmethyl free radical is replaced by an alkyl group, a decrease in stability due to a loss of resonance stabilization is to be expected. The paramagnetism and reactions associated with these less stable radicals will therefore appear only when the ethane is heated well above room temperature, the dissociation being endothermic. The rate of formation, but not the equilibrium constant, is experimentally accessible for these radicals since the radical once formed is subject to rearrangement, cleavage, and disproportionation reactions ... 

The decomposition of aliphatic peroxides produces oxygen radicals too unstable for paramagnetic measurement. These radicals initiate the polymerization of olefins and give the complex mixtures of decomposition products associated with radical mechanisms. On the other hand, aliphatic peroxides are also capable of polar decomposition reactions, a subject to be taken up in Chapter VIII. The characteristic reactions of the less stable oxygen free radicals are /3-cleavage to form... 

Poly (methyl methacrylate) was also subjected to mechanical reaction in a vibrating mill in common solvent for several monomers (ethylene, acrylic acid and its esters, acrylonitrile and styrene) at temperatures from —196 to 20° C (22). The formation of macroradicals and their reactions were followed by EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance). The macroradicals reacted with vinyl monomers at temperatures less than —100° C, while quinones underwent reaction as low as —196° C. The same experiments were performed also with polystyrene and polybutylenedimethacrylate. The radicals from polystyrene were more reactive than those from poly(methyl methacrylate). 

Alanine dosimeters are based on the ability of 1-a alanine (a crystalline amino acid) to form a very stable free radical when subjected to ionizing radiation. The alanine free radical yields an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signal that is dose dependent, yet independent of the dose rate, energy type, and relatively insensitive to temperature and humidity. Alanine dosimeters are available in the form of pellets or films and can be used for doses ranging from 10 Gy to 200 kGy. A reference calibration service using the alanine EPR system was developed and the scans were sent to the service center by mail. Currently the available system allows transferring the EPR scan to a NIST server for a calibration certificate. This way the procedure has been shortened from days to hours. ... 

It is now well known that many diamagnetic, square-planar nickel(II) chelates develop temperature-dependent paramagnetic moments in solution. The subject was last reviewed by Sacconi (221) in 1959, but later developments make a further summary worthwhile. 

A complete coverage of the literature of EPR in photosynthesis is, not manageable and we will therefore give a rather subjective personal view of the field. The focus will be on major applications, i.e. where EPR was applied to get detailed information on structure and function of the particular paramagnetic species. The review contains selective work from the last 10 years with special emphasis on recent work that appeared in 2002 and 2003. The current work will be set in context of earlier results via critical review. 

The tetrakis-dithiophosphinate complex [PPI14][Pr(S2PMe2)4], whose crystal structure has also been determined, has a distorted tetragonal antiprismatic geometry with Pr—S = 2.888-3.0150.400 The complex ions [M S2P(OEt)2 4]", have been the subject of an NMR paramagnetic shift study (see Section 39.2.9.4). 

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