EARLY STUDIES OF EXCHANGE BETWEEN PARAMAGNETIC AND DIAMAGNETIC MOLECULES

This chapter deals with some of the early magnetic resonance studies of rates and pathways of exchanges, either via electron transfer or atom transfer, between paramagnetic and diamagnetic molecules. The cited examples are of systems at equilibrium. The average concentrations of the species involved are constant but are accompanied by the fluctuations about the average that are an inevitable consequence of the stochastic nature of dynamic equilibrium.