General Information

Instructor:	Professor Tien-Sung Tom Lin	Email:	lin@wustl.edu
Office:	McMillen Labs Room 405
Telephone:	(314) 935-6580
Teaching Assitants:	TBA	Email:	TBA@artsci.edu
Lecture Schedule:	Tu/Th (10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)

Course Description:

Princples of magnetic resonance of paramagnetic species, structure, and dynamics of organic free radicals and transition metal ions in the condensed phase. Detection of transient paramagnetic species generated in photochemical reactions and photo physical processes. Prereq: Chem 401 (3 units)

Course Outline:

I.	Introduction An overview: electromagnetic radiation and spectroscopy in general
II.	Angular momentum, spin properties and magnetic resonance Two-level system Density matrix From NMR to EPR
III	EPR spectra of the hydrogen atoms Hyperfine structure, Fermi contact interaction Singlet-triplet mixing and forbidden transitions
IV	EPR spectra of paramagnetic organic species (free radicals, biradicals and triplet states)
V	EPR spectra of transition metal ions and complexes
VI	Spin relaxation, molecular rate processes and double resonance
VII	Coherence effects and time domain spectroscopy
VIII	Topics of current interest: applications to biomedicine and nanomaterials

Reserved Reference Books (in Chemistry Library)

1. Abragram, The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism

2. Abragram and Bleaney, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Transition Ions

3. Atherton, Electron Spin Resonance, Theory and Applications

4. Atkins and Friedman, Molecular Quantum Mechanics

5. Carrington and McLachlan, Introduction to Magnetic Resonance

6. Schweiger and Jeschke , Principles of pulse electron paramagnetic resonance

7. Slichter, Principles of magnetic Resonance

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