The editorial team of the journal Inorganic Chemistry has put together a virtual edition that highlights the many different applications and the power of spectroscopy in the study of inorganic systems.
With this compilation of highlight articles from the field of inorganic chemistry, Associate Editors Franc Meyer and Frank Neese hope that young scientists in particular will be motivated to engage in spectroscopic studies.
The development and application of spectroscopic methods for the characterization of compounds is an important aspect in the field of inorganic chemistry. Especially in recent years there has been rapid progress in both experimental and theoretical applications of spectroscopy to inorganic compounds.
The virtual issue entitled "The Impact of Modern Spectroscopy in Inorganic Chemistry" contains articles published in the journal between January 2018 and July 2020 as well as an additional selection of articles from the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
These include two articles from the DeBeer department that appeared in Inorganic Chemistry in 2018 and 2019, and a publication that was produced in collaboration with the neighboring MPI für Kohlenforschung in the Joint Workspace:
Mathe, Z., Pantazis, D.A., Lee, H.B., Gnewkow, R., Van Kuiken, B., Agapie, T., DeBeer, S. (2019). Calcium Valence-to-Core X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: A Sensitive Probe of Oxo Protonation in Structural Models of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex Inorganic Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02866
Hahn, A.W., Van Kuiken, B.E., Chilkuri, V.G., Levin, N., Bill, E., Weyhermüller, T., Nicolaou, A., Miyawaki, J., Harada, Y., DeBeer, S. (2018). Probing the Valence Electronic Structure of Low-Spin Ferrous and Ferric Complexes Using 2p3d Resonant Inelastic X‑ray Scattering (RIXS) Inorganic Chemistry 57(37), 11918-11923. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01550
Chang, H., Mondal, B., Fang, H., Neese, F., Bill, E., Ye, S. (2019). Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Signature of Tetragonal Low Spin Iron(V)-Nitrido and -Oxo Complexes Derived from the Electronic Structure Analysis of Heme and Non-Heme Archetypes Inorganic Chemistry 141(6), 2421-2434.
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b11429