Summary

Integrating theory and practice, this volume brings together different branches of both academic and industrial research through the presentation of critical review articles in fundamental and applied spectroscopy. Covers many aspects of the spectroscopy of groups I and II compounds and of minerals, and embraces topics such as chemisorption and catalysis at metal, oxide, semiconductor, zeolite, and clay mineral surfaces, the study of metal-metal bonded complexes, and of a wide range of molecules of bioinorganic interest. In addition to infrared and Raman spectroscopy, the volume includes detailed information on nuclear quadrupole coupling, time-resolved spectroscopy, electron spin resonance, and photoelectron spectroscopy.