Mossbauer spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation: a new technique entering biological inorganic chemistry

摘要

Nuclear resonant forward scattering (NFS) of synchrotron radiation was employed as Mossbauer spectroscopy in the time domain only recently, while conventional Mossbauer spectroscopy in the energy domain is widely applied since its discovery in 1958. Experimental setup and theoretical background required for NFS are explained, and examples are given for detecting quadrupole splitting, isomer shift, thickness effect and magnetic hyperfine interaction. Nuclear inelastic scattering provides the possibility to detect molecular vibrations. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. [References: 15]