This presentation will focus on a number of areas in copper and iron bioinorganic chemistry where MCD spectroscopy has had a major impact.   These include; 1) using the excited states of  non-Kramers' ions to probe the ground state and obtain spin Hamiltonian parameters from EPR inactive sites; 2) probing low lying excited states that are the frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs) involved in reactivity; 3) defining the nature of the intermediates involved in the reduction of dioxygen to water, thus the mechanism of this key reaction in biology.

Variable temperature variable field magnetic circular dichroism (VTVH MCD) spectroscopy in bioinorganic chemistry

241st National Meeting (2011)

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