I also suggest taking a look at the attached reference. Some Mn oxides have both edge and corner sharing octahedra and one can use one form of oxide to extract the paths for both types of octahedra. Azzam Mansour -----Original Message----- From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of fred.mosselmans@diamond.ac.uk Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 6:52 AM To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] How to identify Mn Mn Corner edge paths in Artemis Hi Sathish, There are no corner sharing paths in your feff calculation as the "perfect" birnessite model you are using only has edge sharing octahedra. I am not a phyllomanganate expert so can't help with a structure suggestion to try but using google I would think you could find a structure with corner sharing MnO6. Then you could take the corner sharing path from there and the edge sharing from your original structure. In Sam Webb's paper he has refined his model to give shell occupancy numbers as he has a non totally crystalline structure. This is effectively the path degeneracy from the Feff calculation but you cannot refine this number in artemis, you have to refine Nmncor or some other variable the name is irrelevant and then define the path occupancy of the corner as 1 and the S02 for this path as amp * Nmncor . Bruce's videos are pretty good in getting started in fitting from scratch, which is really not the easiest thing to do, so keep going. I assume you have watched some of them. http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Events/Past_events/XAS-workshop-2011.html?mgnl... HTH Cheers Fred -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit