The aim of this course is to give an overview of different applications for EPR experiments and offer the basis for interpretation of EPR spectra.

The role of simulation in understanding EPR results.

- Review of the spin Hamiltonian and the EPR experiment

- Extracting information from spectra: EPR lineshapes, fitting of experimental spectra and interpretation of parameters

- Single crystal spectra

- Powder spectra

Introduction to EasySpin, its core functions and its uses:

- cw EPR solid state

- cw EPR liquid state (isotropic, fast motion, slow motion)

- susceptibility data

Optimization

- esfit function for refining spin Hamiltonian parameters

Examples

- transition metal compounds

- organic radicals

- spin label (NO)

- spin trapping technique

- hemeproteins