Nuclear magnetic resonance environmental effects

Autschbach and co-workers have presented a method for a subsystem-based calculation of indirect nuclear spin-spin coupling tensors. This approach was based on the frozen-density embedding scheme within density-functional theory and was an extension of a previously reported subsystem-based approach for the calculation of nuclear magnetic resonance shielding tensors. The method was particularly useful for the inclusion of environmental effects in the calculation of nuclear spin-spin coupling constants. According to this method, the computationally expensive response calculation had to be performed only for the subsystem of interest. As an example, the authors have demonstrated the results for methylmercury halides which exhibited an exceptionally large shift of the V(Hg,C) upon coordination of dimethylsulfoxide solvent molecules. 

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