Spin Chemistry Tutorials

This page is designed for those new to the field of spin chemistry.

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Jupyter Notebooks (coding in Python)

Introduction to Spin Chemistry with RadicalPy These tutorials cover electrons, spins, magnetic moments, the Zeeman effect, Hyperfine interactions, J-coupling, dipolar coupling, chemical kinetics, molecular motion, spin Hamiltonians, density matrices, time evolution, kinetic and relaxation superoperators, and more.

Books

In alphabetical (author) order:

G. Bodenhausen, R. Ernst, and A. Wokaun, Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in One and Two Dimensions, 1997.

A. L. Buchachenko and E. L. Frankevich, Chemical Generation and Reception of Radio-and Microwaves, 1993.

A. Carrington and A. D. McLachlan, Introduction to Magnetic Resonance: With Applications to Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 1967.

M. D. E. Forbes, Carbon-Centered Free Radicals and Radical Cations: Structure, Reactivity, and Dynamics, 2009.

D. Gamliel and H. Levanon, Stochastic Processes in Magnetic Resonance, 1995.

H. Hayashi, Introduction to Dynamic Spin Chemistry: Magnetic Field Effects on Chemical and Biochemical Reactions, 2004.

P. J. Hore, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 2nd Edition, 2015.

P. J. Hore, J. Jones, and S. Wimperis, NMR: The Toolkit, 2nd Edition, 2015.

M. H. Levitt, Spin Dynamics: Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 2nd Edition, 2008.

S. Nagakura, H. Hayashi, and T. Azumi, Dynamic Spin Chemistry: Magnetic Controls and Spin Dynamics of Chemical Reactions, 1999.

J. J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Edition, 2020.

K. M. Salikhov, Magnetic Isotope Effect in Radical Reactions. Springer Verlag, Wien New-York, 1996.

K. M. Salikhov, Y. N. Molin, R. Z. Sagdeev, A. L. Buchachenko, Spin Polarization and Magnetic Effects in Radical Reactions, Academic Kiado Budapest, Elsevier Amsterdam, 1984.

A. Schweiger and G. Jeschke, Principles of Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, 2001.

Review Articles

In chronological order:

U. E. Steiner and T. Ulrich, Magnetic field effects in chemical kinetics and related phenomena, Chemical Reviews 1989, 89, 1, 51–147.

J. R. Woodward, Radical Pairs in Solution, Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism. 27, 165–207. 2002.

K. L. Ivanov, A. N. Pravdivtsev, A. V. Yurkovskaya, H.-M. Vieth, R. Kaptein, The role of level anti-crossings in nuclear spin hyperpolarization, Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 81, 1-36, 2014.

P. J. Hore and H. Mouritsen, The Radical-Pair Mechanism of Magnetoreception, Annual Review of Biophysics 2016 45:1, 299-344.

K. L. Ivanov, A. Wagenpfah, C. Deibe and J. Matysik, Spin-chemistry concepts for spintronics scientists, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 2017, 8, 1427–1445.

O. B. Morozova, A. V. Yurkovskaya, H.-M. Vieth, D. V. Sosnovsky, K. L. Ivanov, Light-induced spin hyperpolarization in condensed phase, Molecular Physics, 115, 2907-2943, 2017.

G. Buntkowsky, K. L. Ivanov, H.-M. Vieth, From Free Radicals and Spin-Chemistry Over Spin-Dynamics and Hyperpolarization to Biology and Materials Science, Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 231, 167-175, 2017.

O. B. Morozova, K. L. Ivanov, Time-resolved CIDNP of biologically important molecules, ChemPhysChem, 20, 197-215, 2019.

D. A. Barskiy, S. Knecht, A. V. Yurkovskaya, K. L. Ivanov, SABRE: chemical kinetics and spin dynamics of the formation of hyperpolarization, Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 114-115, 33-70, 2019.

P. J. Hore, K. L. Ivanov, M. R. Wasielewski, Spin Chemistry, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 152, 120401, 2020.

J. Matysik, Y. Ding, Y. Kim, P. Kurle, A. Yurkovskaya, K. Ivanov and A. Alia, Photo-CIDNP in Solid State, Applied Magnetic Resonance volume 53, 521–537, 2022.

YouTube

Spin dynamics tutorials by Ilia Kuprov.

EPR tutorials by Ranjan Das.

Global NMR Discussion Meetings

EasySpin Academy

Tutorial by Peter J. Hore on the radical pair mechanism of magnetoreception at the FENS Hertie Winter School 2017.