EMR Teaching

Oxford Instruments launched its Affirmoex Electron Magnetic Resonance (EMR) system to regenerate the teaching of EMR in universities and colleges. The Company has developed and customized this compact benchtop spectrometer, regenerating the teaching of EMR in higher education.

Electron Magnetic Resonance (EMR) (also known as Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) or Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)) is a valuable but often neglected technique. It is the only technique that directly measures unpaired electrons, a key chemical moiety, important in a range of areas such as free radical studies, oxidation, transition metal oxidation states, catalysis, reaction mechanism elucidation and reaction kinetics. Together with the spectrometer, the company is introducing a comprehensive package of undergraduate teaching materials, making it easy to incorporate both theoretical and practical aspects of the technique into the undergraduate curriculum.