EPR spectroscopy is a versatile nondestructive technique widely used in chemistry biology
and physics. It detects molecules and materials with unpaired electrons making it a very
selective technique that produces a wealth of information on such systems. Its high sensitivity
makes it suitable in analyzing very small samples single crystals or reaction intermediates
like radicals. This textbook takes a practical approach that introduces the basic concepts of
EPR to sufficient detail to allow the reader to gain a basic knowledge of EPR and understand
how experiments are carried out and how spectra are analyzed and interpreted. Many illustrative
examples are included drawn from solid-state physics and bioinorganic chemistry. It is suitable
as a short introduction for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students taking their
first steps into EPR research.
