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PELDOR or DEER spectroscopy is a magnetic resonance method to probe spin interactions between free radicals. It was proposed and demonstrated in the 1980s and has developed into a powerful means to routinely measure distances in non-crystalline chemical, macromolecular and biological systems on the nanometer length scale. The basis of PELDOR spectroscopy is introduced using a simple model with two unpaired electron spins.

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  1. The Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Yuri D. Tsvetkov

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Michael K. Bowman

  3. The Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Yuri A. Grishin

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Tsvetkov, Y.D., Bowman, M.K., Grishin, Y.A. (2019). Introduction. In: Pulsed Electron–Electron Double Resonance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05372-7_1

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