Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

by Gilbert, B. C.; Murphy, Damien M.; Chechik, Victor; Tordo, Paul (CON); Bennati, Marina (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781847550613
• ISBN10: 1847550614
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-16
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Summary

Reflecting the growing volume of published work in this field, researchers will find this book an invaluable source of information on current methods and applications.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Recent developments and applications of the coupled EPR/Spin trapping technique (EPR/ST)	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
New spin traps	p. 1
Applications of EPR/ST in biological systems	p. 9
Combined liquid chromatography/EPR/Mass spectrometry (LC/EPR/MS) approaches to identify spin adducts	p. 16
Immuno-spin trapping	p. 18
Kinetic aspects of spin trapping	p. 21
EPR/ST of organic, organometallic and inorganic radicals	p. 24
Application of EPR/ST to study the degradation of ionomer membranes used in fuel cells	p. 29
Radical formation in beer and wine studied by EPR/ST	p. 30
Theoretical calculations	p. 30
Conclusion	p. 33
References	p. 33
EPR investigations of organic non-covalent assemblies with spin labels and spin probes	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
Host-guest Chemistry: Cyclodextrins	p. 41
Host-guest Chemistry: Cucurbit[n]urils	p. 49
Non covalent interactions: halogen bonding	p. 56
Self-organised architectures investigated by EPR spin probes	p. 59
Switching of the spin-spin interactions	p. 62
Conclusions	p. 68
References	p. 68
Spin labels and spin probes for measurements of local pH and electrostatics by EPR	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
Physical Aspects of pH-measurements by EPR	p. 72
Recent developments in application of spin labels and probes with pH-dependent EPR spectra	p. 80
Conclusions and outlook	p. 102
Acknowledgments	p. 103
References	p. 103
High-field EPR of bioorganic radicals	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
The g tensor	p. 108
Experimental aspects	p. 114
Comparison of g tensors of biological radicals	p. 117
Amino acid radicals	p. 119
Cofactor radicals	p. 128
Substrate radicals	p. 138
Other radicals	p. 139
Summary	p. 140
References	p. 141
Dynamic nuclear polarization in liquids	p. 155
Introduction	p. 155
Theoretical Background	p. 157
Mechanistic Studies of DNP	p. 162
Methods for High Resolution DNP-NMR in Liquids	p. 169
Applications	p. 174
Acknowledgements	p. 178
References	p. 178
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