EPR Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Methods

By Stefan Stoll

This unique, self-contained resource is the first volume on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy in the eMagRes Handbook series. The 27 chapters cover the theoretical principles, the common experimental techniques, and many important application areas of modern EPR spectroscopy. EPR Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Methods is presented in four major parts: A: Fundamental Theory, B: Basic Techniques and Instrumentation, C: High-Resolution Pulse Techniques, and D: Special Techniques.

The first part of the book gives the reader an introduction to basic continuous-wave (CW) EPR and an overview of the different magnetic interactions that can be determined by EPR spectroscopy, their associated theoretical description, and their information content. The second provides the basics of the various EPR techniques, including pulse EPR, and EPR imaging, along with the associated instrumentation. Parts C and D builds on parts A and B and offer introductory accounts of a wide range of modern advanced EPR techniques, with examples of applications. The last two parts presents most of the new advances that do not appear in most of the classical EPR textbooks that focus on CW EPR.

EPR Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Methods contains, in concise form, all the material needed to understand state-of-the-art EPR spectroscopy at the graduate school/research level, whilst the editors have ensured that it presents the topic at a level accessible to newcomers to the field and others who want to know its range of application and how to apply it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Mar 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781119162988

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Cover Images: (Background) © kWaiGon/Gettyimages; (Top, left to right) Pulse shape image, courtesy of Stefan Stoll; HYSCORE, courtesy of Sabine Van Doorslaer; Energy Level Diagram, courtesy of Jeffrey Harmer; Tyrosyl Radical, courtesy of Franke Neese; (Bottom, left to right) DEER, courtesy of Gunnar Jeschke; Spectra, courtesy of Enrica Bordignon

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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Roderick E. Wasylishen

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta

Canada

From 1st January 2018

Sharon Ashbrook

University of St Andrews

St Andrews

UK

Section Editors

SOLID-STATE NMR & PHYSICS

Marina Carravetta

University of Southampton

Southampton

UK

SOLUTION-STATE NMR & CHEMISTRY

George A. Gray

Applications Scientist (formerly Varian Inc. & Agilent)

Portola Valley, CA

USA

BIOCHEMICAL NMR

Tatyana Polenova

University of Delaware

Newark, DE

USA

ENVIRONMENTAL & ECOLOGICAL NMR

André J. Simpson

University of Toronto

Ontario

Canada

Myrna J. Simpson

University of Toronto

Ontario

Canada

MRI & MRS

John R. Griffiths

Cancer Research UK

Cambridge Research Institute

Cambridge

UK

Ian R. Young

Imperial College

London

UK

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Edwin D. Becker

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

USA

International Advisory Board

David M. Grant (Past Chairman)

(deceased)

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

USA

Chris Boesch

University of Bern

Bern

Switzerland

Graeme M. Bydder

UCSD Medical Center

San Diego, CA

USA

James W. Emsley

University of Southampton

Southampton

UK

Lucio Frydman

Weizmann Institute of Science

Rehovot

Israel

Harald Günther

Universität Siegen

Siegen

Germany

Gareth A. Morris

University of Manchester

Manchester

UK

Robin K. Harris (Chairman)

University of Durham

Durham

UK

Isao Ando

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tokyo

Japan

Paul A. Bottomley

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

USA

Paul T. Callaghan (deceased)

Victoria University of Wellington

Wellington

New Zealand

Richard R. Ernst

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH)

Zürich

Switzerland

Bernard C. Gerstein

Ames, IA

USA

Herbert Y. Kressel

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

USA

C. Leon Partain

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, TN

USA

Adriaan Bax

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

USA

William G. Bradley

UCSD Medical Center

San Diego, CA

USA

Melinda J. Duer

University of Cambridge

Cambridge

UK

Ray Freeman

University of Cambridge

Cambridge

UK

Maurice Goldman

Villebon sur Yvette

France

Ann E. McDermott

Columbia University

New York, NY

USA

Alexander Pines

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

USA

George K. Radda

University of Oxford

Oxford

UK

John S. Waugh (deceased)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, MA

USA

Hans Wolfgang Spiess

Max-Planck Institute of Polymer Research

Mainz

Germany

Bernd Wrackmeyer (deceased)

Universität Bayreuth

Bayreuth

Germany

Charles P. Slichter

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL

USA

Kurt Wüthrich

The Scripps Research Institute

La Jolla, CA

USA

and

ETH Zürich

Zürich

Switzerland

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