“…However, the insufficiency in numbers and intensities of the observed (00l) reflections due to their lower dimensionality might make it impossible for the powder X-ray diffraction method to determine directly the geometry and ligand environment of the metal complex ion intercalated into clay material. In addition, even though nearly all the conceivable permutations have been proposed by means of spectroscopies such as IR, ,, UV−visible, , and EPR, ,,, it is still unclear how the intercalation of metal complex into the charged layer affects the changes in coordination of a transition metal and bonding character. In these points of view, X-ray absorption spectroscopy would be a useful tool to probe the metal ions absorbed in the interlayer, − because of its peculiar property of being sensitive to both structural and electronic evolutions in a specific atom due to its element selectivity and no requirement of long-range order in the crystal structure.…”