Mössbauer Spectroscopy

Author

Gary J. Long, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Fernande Grandjean, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Abstract

The use of Mössbauer spectroscopy is now ubiquitous throughout inorganic, solid state, materials, and coordination chemistry, especially for the study of iron-containing coordination compounds and, to a lesser extent, for tin, antimony, tellurium, europium, dysprosium, and gold-containing compounds.1 Indeed, in the case of iron-containing coordination complexes, Mössbauer spectroscopy is often effective in determining the iron oxidation state or states in the case of mixed-valence complexes, as well as the electronic spin-state, coordination number, coordination environment, and often the number of crystallographically unique iron sites; these results are often used to better understand or to confirm the results of other spectroscopic, magnetic, and X-ray structural studies. Because this chapter is a sequel to our earlier introduction to Mössbauer spectroscopy published in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II, it will not deal with the fundamentals of the technique discussed in detail earlier and the reader is referred to this introduction2 and to references 3–14 given therein; only a few more recent fundamental sources are given here.15 There are now several hundreds of papers published each year reporting the Mössbauer spectral results for iron containing coordination complexes and the nature of the complexes dealt with in these papers may be found in the Mössbauer Effect Reference and Data Journal.3 By far the majority of these papers are limited to spectra obtained at room temperature or in some cases between 78 and 298 K, temperatures that are useful for obtaining the basic hyperfine parameters, for example, the isomer shifts, quadrupole interactions, and in some cases....

Recommended Citation

G. J. Long and F. Grandjean, "Mössbauer Spectroscopy," Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry III, vol. 1 thru 9, pp. 129 - 159, Elsevier, Jul 2021.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.14575-5

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Chemistry

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-008102688-5;978-008102689-2

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Article - Journal

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English

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Publication Date

21 Jul 2021