Applications of Physical Methods to Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (EIC Books)

Modern spectroscopic and instrumental techniques are essential to the practice of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. This text provides a consistent and comprehensive description of the practical aaplicability of a large number of techniques to modern problems in organic and bioinorganic chemistry. Abstract: Scientific investigations of the synthesis and properties of materials on the nanoscale are the hottest developments in inorganic chemistry. Nanomaterials provides, in a single volume, a timely overview of contributions made by inorganic chemists to nanomaterials research. Read more... Energy production and storage are central problems for our time. In principle, abundant energy is available from the sun to run the earth in a sustainable way. Solar energy can be directly harnessed by agricultural and photovoltaic means, but the sheer scale of the energy demand poses severe challenges, for example any major competition between biomass production and food production would simply transfer scarcity from energy to food. Indirect use of solar energy in the form of wind looks also promising, especially for those regions not blessed with abundant sunlight. Other modes such as tidal and wave energy may well become important niche players. Inorganic chemistry plays a decisive role in the development of new energy technologies and this Volume covers some promising modes of alternative energy production and storage that minimize the atmospheric burden of fossil-derived carbon monoxide. No one production or storage mode is likely to dominate, at least at first, and numerous possibilities need to be explored to compare their technical feasibility and economics. This provides the context for a broad exploration of novel ideas that we are likely to see in future years as the field expands. This Volume covers a wide range of topics, such as: - Water splitting, only water is a sufficiently cheap and abundant electron source for global exploitation; - Energy conversion by photosynthesis; - Molecular catalysts for water splitting; - Thermochemical water splitting; - Photocatalytic hydrogen production; - Artificial photosynthesis, progress of the Swedish Consortium; - Hydrogen economy; - Reduction of carbon dioxide to useful fuels; - Conversion of methane to methanol; - Dye sensitized solar cells; - Photoinitiated electron transfer in fuel cells; - Proton exchange membranes for fuel cells; - Intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells; - Direct Ethanol fuel cells; - Molecular catalysis for fuel cells; - Enzymes and microbes in fuel cells; - Li-Ion batteries; - Magic Angle Spinning NMR studies of battery materials; Supercapacitors and electrode materials. About EIC Books The Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (EIC) has proved to be one of the defining standards in inorganic chemistry, and most chemistry libraries around the world have access either to the first or second print edition, or to the online version. Many readers, however, prefer to have more concise thematic volumes, targeted to their specific area of interest. This feedback from EIC readers has encouraged the Editors to plan a series of EIC Books, focusing on topics of current interest. They will appear on a regular basis, and will feature leading scholars in their fields. Like the Encyclopedia, EIC Books aim to provide both the starting research student and the confirmed research worker with a critical distillation of the leading concepts in inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, and provide a structured entry into the fields covered. This volume is also available as part of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 5 Volume Set. This set combines all volumes published as EIC Books from 2007 to 2010, representing areas of key developments in the field of inorganic chemistry published in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Find out more. Content: Circular dichroism (cd) spectroscopy -- Electrochemistry -- Electron paramagnetic resonance (epr) spectroscopy -- Electron spin echo envelope modulation (eseem) spectroscopy -- Electronic spectroscopy -- Electron-nuclear double resonance (endor) spectroscopy -- Freeze-quench kinetics -- High-energy electron diffraction -- High resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy -- Magnetic circular dichroism (mcd) spectroscopy -- Metal analysis -- Microwave rotational spectroscopy -- Mossbauer spectroscopy -- Neutron diffraction -- Neutron scattering -- Nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy of inorganic/organometallic molecules -- Nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy of metallobiomolecules -- Nuclear quadrupole resonance (nqr) spectroscopy -- Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (nrvs) -- Perturbed angular correlations of?-rays (pac) spectroscopy -- Photoelectron spectroscopy -- Photoluminescence and electroluminescence, solid state -- Rapid scan, stopped-flow kinetics -- Vibrational spectroscopy -- X-ray absorption spectroscopy -- X-ray powder diffraction. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy / P. Anthony Presta and Martin J. Stillman -- Electrochemistry / Mark C. Elvington and Karen J. Brewer -- Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy / Brian J. Hales -- Electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy / John McCracken -- Electronic spectroscopy / Joseph L. Hughes and Elmars Krausz -- Electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy / Joshua Tesler -- Freeze-quench kinetics / Simon de Vries -- High-energy electron diffraction / Jian-Min Zuo -- High resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy / Manuel P. Soriaga [and others] -- Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy / John Mack and Martin J. Stillman -- Metal analysis / KatarzynaWrobel, Kazimierz Wrobel and Joseph A. Caruso -- Microwave rotational spectroscopy / Yunjie Xu and Wolfgang Jäger -- Mossbauer spectroscopy / Volker Schünemann and Hauke Paulsen -- Neutron diffraction / Muhammed Yousufuddin and Robert Bau -- Neutron scattering / J.Z. Larese -- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of inorganic/organometallic molecules / Jonathan A. Iggo, Jianke Liu and Yaroslav Z. Khimyak -- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of metallobiomolecules / Kara L. Bren -- Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy / Gary P. Wulfsberg -- Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS) / Weiqiao Zeng [and others] -- Perturbed angular correlations of y-rays (PAC) spectroscopy / Lars Hemmingsen and Tilman Butz -- Photoelectron spectroscopy / Nadine E. Gruhn and Dennis L. Lichtenberger -- Photoluminescence and electroluminescence, solid state / Joel R. Deye and Keith A. Walters -- Rapid scan, stopped-flow kinetics / Rui-Yong Wang -- Vibrational spectroscopy / R. Brian Dyer and William H. Woodruff -- X-ray absorption spectroscopy / Krisztina Z. Bencze, Kalyan C. Kondapalli and Timothy L. Stemmler -- X-ray powder diffraction / Abraham Clearfield and Nattamai Bhuvanesh. Nuclear energy is the one energy source that could meet the world's growing energy needs and provide a smooth transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the coming decades and centuries. It is becoming abundantly clear that an increase in nuclear energy capacity will, and probably must, take place. However, nuclear energy and the use of radionuclides for civilian and military purposes lead to extremely long-lived waste that is costly and highly problematic to deal with. Therefore, it is critically important ot understand the environmental implications of radionuclides for ecosystems and human health if nuclear energy is to be used to avoid the impending global energy crisis. The present volume of the EIC Books series addresses this critical need by providing fundamental information on environmentally significant radionuclides. The content of this book was developed in collaboration with many of the authors of the chapters. Given the enormity of the subject the Editor and the Authors had to be judicious in selecting the chapters that would appropriately encompass and describe the primary topics, particularly those that are of importance to the health of ecosystems and humans. The resulting chapters were chosen to provide this information in a book of useful and appropriate length. Each chapter provides fundamental information on the chemistry of the radionuclides, their occurrence and movement in the enivornment, separation and analyses, and the technologies needed for their remediation and mitigation. The chapters are structured with a common, systematic format in order to facilitate comparions between elements and groups of elements. About EIC Books The Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry (EIC) has proved to be one of the defining standards in inorganic chemistry, and most chemistry libraries around the world have access either to the first of second print editon, or to the online version. Many readers, however, prefer to have more concise thematic volumes, targeted to their specific area of interest. This feedback from EIC readers has encouraged the Editors to plan a series of EIC Books, focusing on topics of current interest. They will appear on a regular basis, and will feature leading scholars in their fields. Like the Encyclopedia, EIC Books aims to provide both the starting research student and the confirmed research worker with a critical distillation of the leading concepts in inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, and provide a structured entry into the fields covered. This volume is also available as part of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 5 Volume Set. This set combines all volumes published as EIC Books from 2007 to 2010, representing areas of key developments in the field of inorganic chemistry published in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Find out more. Over the past several decades there have been major advances in our ability to computationally evaluate the electronic structure of inorganic molecules, particularly transition metal systems. This advancement is due to the Moore's Law increase in computing power as well as the impact of density functional theory (DFT) and its implementation in commercial and freeware programs for quantum chemical calculations. Improved pure and hybrid density functionals are allowing DFT calculations with accuracy comparable to high-level Hartree-Fock treatments, and the results of these calculations can now be evaluated by experiment. When calculations are correlated to, and supported by, experimental data they can provide fundamental insight into electronic structure and its contributions to physical properties and chemical reactivity. This interplay continues to expand and contributes to both improved value of experimental results and improved accuracy of computational predictions. The purpose of this EIC Book is to provide state-of-the-art presentations of quantum mechanical and related methods and their applications, written by many of the leaders in the field. Part 1 of this volume focuses on methods, their background and implementation, and their use in describing bonding properties, energies, transition states and spectroscopic features. Part 2 focuses on applications in bioinorganic chemistry and Part 3 discusses inorganic chemistry, where electronic structure calculations have already had a major impact. This addition to the EIC Book series is of significant value to both experimentalists and theoreticians, and we anticipate that it will stimulate both further development of the methodology and its applications in the many interdisciplinary fields that comprise modern inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. This volume is also available as part of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 5 Volume Set. This set combines all volumes published as EIC Books from 2007 to 2010, representing areas of key developments in the field of inorganic chemistry published in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Find out more. "Over the past several decades there have been major advances in our ability to evaluate computationally the electronic structure of inorganic molecules, particularly transition metal systems. This advancement is due to the Moore's Law increase in computing power as well as the impact of density functional theory (DFT) and its implementation in commercial and freeware programs for quantum chemical calculations. Improved pure and hybrid density functionals are allowing DFT calculations with accuracy comparable to high-level Hartree-Fock treatments, and the results of these calculations can now be evaluated based on experiment. When calculations are correlated to and supported by experimental data they can provide fundamental insight into electronic structure and its contributions to physical properties and chemical reactivity. This interplay continues to expand and contributes to both improved value of experimental results and improved accuracy of computational predictions. The purpose of this EIC Book is to provide state-of-the-art presentations of quantum mechanical and related methods and their applications by many of the leaders in the field. Part One of this volume focuses on methods, their background and implementation, and their use in describing bonding properties, energies, transition states and spectroscopic features. Part Two focuses on applications in bioinorganic chemistry and Part Three discusses inorganic chemistry, where electronic structure calculations have already had a major impact. This addition to the EIC Book series is of significant value to both experimentalists and theoreticians, and we anticipate that it will stimulate both further development of the methodology and its applications in the many interdisciplinary fields that comprise modern inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. Have the content of this Volume and the complete content of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry at your fingertips! Visit: www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/EIC/"--Provided by publisher.

Over the past several decades there have been major advances in our ability to computationally evaluate the electronic structure of inorganic molecules, particularly transition metal systems. This advancement is due to the Moore’s Law increase in computing power as well as the impact of density functional theory (DFT) and its implementation in commercial and freeware programs for quantum chemical calculations. Improved pure and hybrid density functionals are allowing DFT calculations with accuracy comparable to high-level Hartree-Fock treatments, and the results of these calculations can now be evaluated by experiment.

When calculations are correlated to, and supported by, experimental data they can provide fundamental insight into electronic structure and its contributions to physical properties and chemical reactivity. This interplay continues to expand and contributes to both improved value of experimental results and improved accuracy of computational predictions.

The purpose of this EIC Book is to provide state-of-the-art presentations of quantum mechanical and related methods and their applications, written by many of the leaders in the field. Part 1 of this volume focuses on methods, their background and implementation, and their use in describing bonding properties, energies, transition states and spectroscopic features. Part 2 focuses on applications in bioinorganic chemistry and Part 3 discusses inorganic chemistry, where electronic structure calculations have already had a major impact. This addition to the EIC Book series is of significant value to both experimentalists and theoreticians, and we anticipate that it will stimulate both further development of the methodology and its applications in the many interdisciplinary fields that comprise modern inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry.

All areas of (bio-) inorganic chemistry depend on a variety of physical methods and instruments to characterize molecules and materials and their reactions. It is difficult, however, for newcomers to the field, and even experts in allied fields, to establish the utility of a given physical method for the characterization of their particular system.

This book provides a practical introduction to a comprehensive set of physical methods that have been applied to (bio-)inorganic systems, with an emphasis on answering questions such as, "what kind of information would this method provide?" or "what type of sample can be examined?" and, more importantly, "what information will not be available if I employ this method (i.e, what are its limitations)? The book provides a quick reference guide (like the "Quick Start" manuals that often come with computers and peripherals) that non-experts can consult to select physical methods appropriate for the characterization of a given materials.

Each method is introduced by a Methods Summary. These summaries are structured consistently to quickly answer practical questions about what information is, and is not, available using each technique, and what kinds of materials can be probed. Thus, at a glance, a non-expert can identify potentially useful methods, and then concentrate on those chapters to determine which methods will be most useful for solving their problem with specific examples of how that method is utilized. Researchers will also find sufficient information to determine if collaboration with others is the best course of action.

The global growth of the nuclear power industry will require a complete understanding of the impact of radionuclides in the environment. A great deal is known about the sources of radionuclides and their occurrence in the environment. However, the basic chemistry of these elements is a continually growing area of research. There is no single resource for obtaining a holistic understanding of radionuclide environmental chemisty. The proposed book will provide this resource with an element-specific coverage of the occurrence, chemistry, and speciation of environmental radionuclides written by experts in the area. The coverage for each element will be presented in a standard format, which will make it easier for the user to find all relevant information: 1. Occurrence 2. Chemistry and Speciation with regards to: a) soil (with adsorption or reactions on humic matter and mineral phases) b) water (may include biological uptake where this information is known) c) air (if applicable) 3. Separation Techniques 4. Analytical Characterization Techniques 5. Remediation (potential techniques or existing technologies Modern spectroscopic and instrumental techniques are essential to the practice of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. This first volume in the new Wiley Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry Methods and Applications Series provides a consistent and comprehensive description of the practical applicability of a large number of techniques to modern problems in inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. The outcome is a text that provides invaluable guidance and advice for inorganic and bioinorganic chemists to select appropriate techniques, whilst acting as a source to the understanding of these methods. This volume is also available as part of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 5 Volume Set. This set combines all volumes published as EIC Books from 2007 to 2010, representing areas of key developments in the field of inorganic chemistry published in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Find out more. Connecting inorganic chemistry to the hottest topic in materials science, this timely resource collects the contributions made by leading inorganic chemists towards nanomaterials research. The second volume in the “Wiley Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry Methods and Applications Series,” this signature title concentrates on recent developments in the field and includes all key topics such as nanowires, nanotubes, biomineralization, supramolecular materials and much more. This volume is also available as part of Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 5 Volume Set. This set combines all volumes published as EIC Books from 2007 to 2010, representing areas of key developments in the field of inorganic chemistry published in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Find out more. New forms of energy production, storage and transport are one of the key scientific challenges in the 21st Century. Inorganic chemistry contributes to the development of new types of solar and fuel cells, batteries, and catalytic processes. New forms of energy production, storage and transport are one of the key scientific challenges in the 21st Century. Inorganic chemistry contributes to the development of new types of solar and fuel cells, batteries, and catalytic processes