Chemically induced dynamic electron spin

VI. Chemically Induced Dynamic Electron Spin Polarization (CIDBP)... 

Chain processes, free radical, in aliphatic systems involving an electron transfer reaction, 23,271 Charge density-NMR chemical shift correlation in organic ions, 11,125 Chemically induced dynamic nuclear spin polarization and its applications, 10, 53 Chemiluminescence of organic compounds, 18,187... 

Time-resolved laser flash ESR spectroscopy generates radicals with nonequilibrium spin populations and causes spectra with unusual signal directions and intensities. The signals may show absorption, emission, or both and be enhanced as much as 100-fold. Deviations from Boltzmann intensities, first noted in 1963, are known as chemically induced dynamic electron polarization (CIDEP). Because the splitting pattern of the intermediate remains unaffected, the CIDEP enhancement facilitates the detection of short-lived radicals. A related technique, fluorescence detected magnetic resonance (FDMR) offers improved time resolution and its sensitivity exceeds that of ESR. The FDMR experiment probes short-lived radical ion pairs, which form reaction products in electronically excited states that decay radiatively. ... 

Appropriate modifications of the ESR spectrometer and generation of free radicals by flash photolysis allow time-resolved (TR) ESR spectroscopy [71]. Spectra observed under these conditions are remarkable for their signal directions and intensities. They may be enhanced as much as one hundredfold and may appear in absorption, emission, or in a combination of both modes. These spectra indicate the intermediacy of radicals with substantial deviations from equilibrium populations. Significantly, the splitting pattern characteristic for the spin density distribution of the intermediate remains unaffected thus, the CIDEP (chemically induced dynamic electron polarization) enhancement facilitates the detection of short-lived radicals at low concentrations. 

CIDEP (Chemically Induced Dynamic Electron Polarization) Non-Boltzmann electron spin state population produced in thermal or photochemical reactions, either from a combination of radical pairs (called radical-pair mechanism), or directly from the triplet state (called triplet mechanism), and detected by ESR spectroscope... 

In 1963, Fessenden and Schuler [1] found during irradiation of liquid methane (CH4 and CD4) at 98 K with 2.8 MeV electron that the low-field signals (al and bl) for both hydrogen and deuterium atoms appeared inverted (emissive signals) and that the central deuterium atom signal (b2) was very weak as shown in Fig. 4-1. Although the cause of such anomalous ESR spectra was not clear at that time, similar anomalous ESR signals have been observed in many reactions and have been called Chemically Induced Dynamic Electron Polarization (CIDEP)". CIDEP should be due to non-equilibrium electron spin state population in radicals. 

Although EPR signals related to hydrocarbon cations radicals generated by electrochemical oxidation or chemical oxidation can be readily detected, only a few examples have been reported for cation radicals that are produced by irradiation of solutions of electron donors and an acceptor. Because electron spin polarization offers the advantage of detecting transient species via their EPR signal intensities, chemically induced dynamic electron polarization (CIDEP) spectra can give information not only about short-lived radical intermediates... 

The fundamental processes involved in the physical formation of a radiation track and in its subsequent evolution by diffusion and reaction are stochastic in nature. Every track is unique and even identical tracks may evolve differently. Thus most recent simulation methods [5-8] are stochastic in these senses (i.e. for the underlying track and for the diffusion and reaction of the reactive particles that can take place). Unfortunately, these methods ignore the spin-dynamics because of the complexity it introduces. As most radicals in radiation chemistry are paramagnetic species, there is a possibility of spin-controlled reactions and other spin effects such as quantum beats [9], chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarisation (CIDNP) [10-13] and chemically induced dynamic electron polarisation (CIDEP) [11, 12], which would... 

Chemically induced dynamic electron polarisation (CIDER) [6, 32], a related phenomenon to CIDNP is the non-Boltzmann distribution of electron spin states. This section will examine how electron polarisation arises from the 5 — To and S T mixing mechanisms (assuming 7(r) < 0) and show how these polarisations can be readily understood within the framework of quantum mechanics. 

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