It has proven an indispensable tool in a large range of applications in physics, materials science, chemistry and biology, including studies of impurity states, molecular clusters, natural or induced radicals, optically excited paramagnetic states, electron spin-based quantum information devices, transition-metal based catalysts; and for structural and dynamical studies of metalloproteins, spin-labeled proteins and other complex bio-molecules and their synthetic models.
EPR/ESR when performed at high frequencies (hundreds of GHz rather than conventional 9 or 35 GHz) and high fields (up to 45 T instead of 0.3 – 1.2 T), correspondingly named HFEPR/HFESR, offers distinct advantages over traditional measurements. HFEPR/HFESR experiments can be crudely categorized as high resolution or broadband. In the former case, one concentrates on the g ~ 2 spectral region and studies it in great detail, often using pulsed techniques. This technique is appropriate mainly to radicals and defects. Broadband HFEPR/HFESR experiments cover a full frequency/field space and are particularly suitable to studying paramagnetic metal complexes and their clusters.
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Instrumentation
Compatible EMR Spectrometers
- Broadband Backward Wave Oscillator (BWO) Spectrometer
- Broadband Millimeter Wave Vector Network Analyzer (MVNA) Spectrometer
- Heterodyne Quasi-Optical Spectrometer
- Transmission Spectrometer
- W-Band HiPER Spectrometer
- XW-Band Bruker Pulsed Spectrometer
Compatible Magnets
Related Publications
Telser, J., et al, High-frequency and -field electron paramagnetic resonance (HFEPR) – a new spectroscopic tool for bioinorganic chemistry, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. (2014) Read online
Telser, J., et al, High-frequency and -field electron paramagnetic resonance of transition metal ion (d block) coordination complexes, Specialist Periodical Reviews of the Royal Chemical Society: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, 23 (2013) Read online
Hill, S., et al, Magnetic quantum tunneling: insights from simple molecule-based magnets, Dalton Trans., 39 (2010) Read online
Krzystek, J., et al, Multi-frequency, high-field EPR as a powerful tool to accurately determine zero-field splitting in high-spin transition metal coordination complexes, J. Coord. Chem. Rev., 250 (2006) Read online
Brunel, L. C., et al, Modern developments and prospects in multi frequency high field EMR, Biological Magnetic Resonance 22 (2004) Read online
Edwards, R. S., et al, High field high frequency EPR techniques and their application to single molecule magnets, Physica B, 346-347 (2004) Read online