The Mössbauer Effect and its Applications in Chemistry

I. Resonance Fluorescence.- Energy and Width of Resonance Transitions.- Role Played by Doppler Broadening and Recoil.- II. The Mössbauer Effect.- Mössbauer's Discovery.- Elements of the Theory of Recoilless Resonance Gamma Fluorescence.- Fundamentals of the Experimental Method of Observing the Mössbauer Effect.- Illustrations of the General Importance of the Mössbauer Effect.- III. Shift and Splitting of Mössbauer Spectrum Lines.- IV. General Reasons It Is Possible to Apply the Mössbauer Effect in Chemistry.- Frequency of Occurrence of Mössbauer Transitions.- Role Played by a Light-Atom Environment.- Delimitation of the Role Played by the Nearest Chemical Bonds and by the Macrostructure.- Possible Complications from a Preceding Conversion of the Emitting Nucleus.- Asymmetric Doublet Splitting in Mössbauer Spectra.- V. Principal Results of the First Studies of the Mössbauer Effect in Iron Compounds.- VI. Principal Results of the First Studies of the Mössbauer Effect in Tin Compounds.- VII. Some Prospects for Using the Mössbauer Effect in Chemistry.- Problems in the Nature of Chemical Bonds.- Problems in Chemical Kinetics, Radiation Chemistry, and the Physical Chemistry of Polymers ....- Literature Cited.- Supplement. New Results of Using the Mössbauer Effect in Chemistry.- Use of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance in Chemical Crystallography (Reprinted from Journal of Structural Chemistry, Volume 1, Numbers 1 and 2).