W-band PELDOR with 1 kW microwave power: Molecular geometry, flexibility and exchange coupling

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 216, Issue , 2012, Pages 175-182

  Reginsson, Gunnar W ^a,b   Hunter, Robert I ^a   Cruickshank, Paul A S ^a   Bolton, David R ^a   Sigurdsson, Snorri Th ^b   Smith, Graham M ^a   Schiemann, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

DEER; Exchange coupling; Nitroxide spin labels; Orientation selective PELDOR; PELDOR

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; BIOMACROMOLECULES; CONFORMATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; DATA SETS; DEER; DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; DOUBLE RESONANCE; HIGH-POWER; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; LARGE MODULATION DEPTH; MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY; MEASURING DISTANCES; MICROWAVE POWER; MODEL SYSTEM; MODULATION DEPTH; MOLECULAR GEOMETRIES; NITROXIDES; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; PELDOR; QUANTITATIVE TOOL; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; SPIN LABEL; TIME TRACE; X-BAND FREQUENCIES;

EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; PARAMAGNETISM; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

NITROGEN OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SPIN LABELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X RAY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITROGEN OXIDES; SPIN LABELS; X-RAYS;

EID: 84862796009     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2012.01.019     Document Type: Article

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