Physical Inorganic Chemistry: Principles, Methods, and Models

Preface ix

Contributors xi

1 Inorganic and Bioinorganic Spectroscopy 1
Edward I. Solomon and Caleb B. Bell III

2 ⁵⁷Fe Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Chemistry and Biology 39
Marlene Martinho and Eckard Munck

3 Magnetochemical Methods and Models in Inorganic Chemistry 69
Paul Kogerler

4 Cryoradiolysis as a Method for Mechanistic Studies in Inorganic Biochemistry 109
Ilia G. Denisov

5 Absolute Chiral Structures of Inorganic Compounds 143
James P. Riehl and Sumio Kaizaki

6 Flash Photolysis and Chemistry of Transients and Excited States 199
Guillermo Ferraudi

7 Application of High Pressure in the Elucidation of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanisms 269
Colin D. Hubbard and Rudi van Eldik

8 Chemical Kinetics as a Mechanistic Tool 367
Andreja Bakac

9 Heavy AtomIsotope Effects as Probes of Small Molecule Activation 425
Justine P. Roth

10 Computational Studies of Reactivity inTransition Metal Chemistry 459
Jeremy N. Harvey

Index 501