Electron Spin Resonance: Analysis and Interpretation

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 242 pages
• Published by: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Edition: 1st Edition August 17, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0854043551
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0854043552
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Review


Basic ESR

Electron spin resonance: analysis and interpretation

Philip H. Rieger 
RSC Publishing 2007, Cambridge, UK, 382pp, (HB), ISBN 978-0-85404-355-2


Reviewed by Damien Murphy 

Electron spin resonance: analysis and interpretation  is an introductory level textbook which presents the fundamental concepts of the subject in a simple pedagogical manner. It therefore offers an ideal starting point for any student wishing to understand and analyze ESR spectra in solution and solid state. 

The book is concise and clearly written with the beginner in mind, since the extensive use of complex and difficult theory is kept to a minimum. It contains numerous illustrative and worked examples throughout, covering the fundamental core ideas in continuous wave ESR and also providing an great overview on the many applications of this technique. The book has a strong 'chemistry feel', reflecting the author's life-long interests in organometallic species, so at all times the theory and analyses are constantly related back to solving real chemical problems. Furthermore the numerous subtle perturbations that determine the final appearance of an ESR spectrum are emphasized and explained, enabling the reader to approach an interpretation armed with the best possible advice and guidance. 

The book also contains many great features that the expert reader will appreciate, including the treatment of non-coincident axes, second order effects and perturbation theory calculations. It logically progresses from isotropic systems to anisotropic polycrystalline species, followed by more specialist chapters on kinetic studies and high spin systems.  

Overall this is an great textbook, presenting the subject of ESR in a straightforward manner and unraveling the complexities of spectral analyses and interpretation. I would thoroughly recommend it.  


Chemistry World, 2008, 5(7), p. 76

Product Description


Electron Spin Resonance covers the obtaining, analysing and interpreting of cw X-band ESR spectra of molecules with unpaired electron (s). The purpose of the book is to describe in mathematical terms the extraction of useful information from ESR spectra about the interaction of unpaired electrons with atoms in the molecules being studied. A reader familiar with quantum mechanics should gain a thorough understanding of the origins of the phenomena which make ESR spectra possible. The information that can be obtained from the spectra are explained in detail and in a logical step-by-step fashion. Examples of spectra of organic, inorganic and organometallic molecules, both in solution and in frozen solution are shown, analysed and interpreted and the mathematical basis of this interpretation clearly presented. The examples start with straightforward cases and proceed to more complicated ones. The ESR of biradicals, triplet states and other systems with more than one unpaired electron is also addressed. Particular attention is paid to the analysis and interpretation of spectra obtained from frozen solutions of paramagnetic organometallic compounds in which the g-matrix and the molecular axes are non-coincident.

This book lays a firm groundwork for understanding more sophisticated experiments, which the availability of newer commercial instruments have made possible.