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Nuclear Techniques in the Elucidation of Chemical Structure

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The paper offers three applications of nuclear methods in the research of chemical structure. First, progress in positron annihilation spectroscopy is illustrated by a positron beamline study, which obtained results that are not available through conventional experiments. The positron beam was used for the study of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films containing 4-58 layers of arachidic acid and its salts. These measurements have shown that this emerging technique is capable of characterizing even such elusive systems. Second, the potential of Mössbauer spectroscopy to answer current challenges of solid state chemistry are shown in a study on perovskites of recent interest. 151Eu Mössbauer spectroscopy was used to study the effect of Pr substitution in EuBa2Cu3O7-δ. It was shown that the introduction of Pr into the rare earth site as well as into the Ba site results in the appearance of extra electrons both in the copper oxide planes and at the 4f shell of Eu cations. The observed effects were explained by the hole filling effect of Pr. Finally, a survey is presented on the recently developed techniques for nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation, an exciting and very rapidly developing extension to conventional Mössbauer spectroscopy. An interesting new result is that nuclear inelastic scattering experiments performed on solutions of 57Fe complexes show contribution from vibrations rather than from diffusion to the inelastic spectra.

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    A. Vértes, Z. Klenesár, Gy. Vankó, T. Marek, K. Süvegh, Z. Homonnay & E. Kuzmann

  2. Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1518, Budapest, POB. 32, Hungary

    A. Vértes, Z. Klenesár, Gy. Vankó, T. Marek, K. Süvegh, Z. Homonnay & E. Kuzmann

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Vértes, A., Klenesár, Z., Vankó, G. et al. Nuclear Techniques in the Elucidation of Chemical Structure. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 243, 241–253 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006716708476

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