Abstract
The technique of x-ray absorption spectroscopy using tuneable, very intense x-rays from a high energy electron storage ring has been applied to study of the estended x-ray absorption fine structure for Cu and Ni tetraphenylporphyrin and methemoglobin. Preliminary analysis shows that the spectra may be interpreted as a super-position of modulations arising from the nearest neighbor nitrogen and pyrrole alpha-carbon coordination sheels of the metal atoms. We estimate that with the observed magnitude of noise to modulation amplitude, relative shifts of 0,5% in the metal-nitrogen to metal-carbon bond distances in the prophyrins should be observable using extended x-ray absorption fine structure and that this technique may provide a method of observing these types of structural changes in solution.
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