Electron spin transient nutation methods

To investigate multispin systems, the so-called electron spin transient nutation (ESTN) spectroscopy is recently elaborated. This is a version of pulsed ESR. Nutation is the precessional motion of spin. The method and its applications are detailed in the paper of Itoh et al. (1997). Chapters 1 and 8 describes that the determination of spin multiplicity becomes a very important problem in organic chemistry of ion-radicals. 

In order to identify the spin multiplicity of the tris(carbene), field-swept two-dimensional electron spin transient nutation (2D-ESTN) spectroscopy was used. This technique is based on pulsed fourier transform (FT) EPR spectroscopic methods and is capable of elaborating straightforward information on electronic and environmental strucmres of high-spin species even in amorphous materials, information that conventional CW EPR cannot provide. The nutation spectra unequivocally demonstrated that the observed fine structure spectrum is due to a septet spin state. 

It is of interest to describe spin systems that are completely different from nitrox-ide-labeled dendrimers, but that also bear in their organic structure a high-spin multiplicity (with S > V) High-spin polycarbenes with ji-conjugation, which are the first and second generations of the spin-mediated dendrimers based on pheny-lacetylenes, were studied by a two-dimensional electron-spin transient nutation (2D-ESTN) method based on pulsed-ESR to determine the spin mulliphcity. The contour plots of the 2D-ESTN spectra of the dendrimer at 3.5 K allowed to identify the nutation frequencies, which were attributed to 4, 4> 4, 3>, 4, 3> <-> 4, 2>, 4, 2> 4, 1>, and 4, 1> 4, 0>. The ESR allowed the detec-... 

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