Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Transition Metal Chemistry

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

   Pages 1-3

3. Basic Physical Concepts

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

   Pages 4-12

4. Hyperfine Interactions

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

   Pages 13-40

5. Experimental

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

   Pages 41-52

6. Mathematical Evaluation of Mössbauer Spectra

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

   Pages 53-55

7. Interpretation of Mössbauer Parameters of Iron Compounds

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

   Pages 56-110

8. Mössbauer-Active Transition-Metals Other than Iron

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

   Pages 111-222

9. Some Special Applications

   • Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link, Alfred Trautwein

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10. Back Matter

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Two decades have passed since the original discovery of recoilless nuclear gamma resonance by Rudolf Mossbauer; the spectroscopic method based on this resonance effect - referred to as Mossbauer spectroscopy - has developed into a powerful tool in solid-state research. The users are chemists, physicists, biologists, geologists, and scientists from other disciplines, and the spectrum of problems amenable to this method has become extraordinarily broad. In the present volume we have confined ourselves to applications of Mossbauer spectroscopy to the area of transition elements. We hope that the book will be useful not only to non-Mossbauer special­ ists with problem-Oriented activities in the chemistry and physics of transition elements, but also to those actively working in the field of Mossbauer spectroscopy on systems (compounds as well as alloys) of transition elements. The first five chapters are directed to introducing the reader who is not familiar with the technique to the principles of the recoilless nuclear resonance effect, the hyperfme interactions between nuclei and electronic properties such as electric and magnetic fields, some essential aspects about measurements, and the evaluation of Moss­ bauer spectra. Chapter 6 deals with the interpretation of Mossbauer parameters of iron compounds. Here we have placed emphasis on the information about the electronic structure, in correlation with quantum chemical methods, because of its importance for chemical bonding and magnetic properties.

• Mössbauer-Spektroskopie
• chemical bond
• chemistry
• iron
• metals
• spectroscopy
• transition element
• transition metal
• Übergangselement

• Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Deutschland

  Philipp Gütlich, Rainer Link

• Fachbereich „Angewandte Physik“, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 11, Deutschland

  Alfred X. Trautwein

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