Nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation processes

RELAXATION PROCESSES IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXATION MECHANISMS A GENERAL SURVEY... 

Werbelow L G 1996 Relaxation processes cross correlation and interference terms Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ed D M Grant and R K Harris (Chichester Wiley) pp 4072-8... 

Although relaxation measurements have been widely used in nuclear magnetic resonance studies of solid catalysts and adsorbed molecules, they have not found such favor in similar ESR work. Relaxation phenomena, however, do play a very important role in any magnetic resonance experiment, whether or not this aspect of the problem is studied. In fact, the temperature at which most ESR experiments are conducted is dictated by the relaxation process. Furthermore, even qualitative data on relaxation times can be used as supporting evidence in the identification of a paramagnetic species. 

The process is reversible, and the excited particle can thus return to the ground state by reemission of the radiation. This is known as the relaxation process. Relaxation following resonance is the basis for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It turns... 

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a most effective and significant method for observing the structure and dynamics of polymer chains both in solution and in the solid state [1]. Undoubtedly the widest application of NMR spectroscopy is in the field of structure determination. The identification of certain atoms or groups in a molecule as well as their position relative to each other can be obtained by one-, two-, and three-dimensional NMR. Of importance to polymerization of vinyl monomers is the orientation of each vinyl monomer unit to the growing chain tacticity. The time scale involved in NMR measurements makes it possible to study certain rate processes, including chemical reaction rates. Other applications are isomerism, internal relaxation, conformational analysis, and tautomerism. 

Several spectroscopic techniques, namely, Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (UV-Vis), Infrared (IR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), etc., have been used for understanding the mechanism of solvent-extraction processes and identification of extracted species. Berthon et al. reviewed the use of NMR techniques in solvent-extraction studies for monoamides, malonamides, picolinamides, and TBP (116, 117). NMR spectroscopy was used as a tool to identify the structural parameters that control selectivity and efficiency of extraction of metal ions. 13C NMR relaxation-time data were used to determine the distances between the carbon atoms of the monoamide ligands and the actinides centers. The II, 2H, and 13C NMR spectra analysis of the solvent organic phases indicated malonamide dimer formation at low concentrations. However, at higher ligand concentrations, micelle formation was observed. NMR studies were also used to understand nitric acid extraction mechanisms. Before obtaining conformational information from 13C relaxation times, the stoichiometries of the... 

Secondary Relaxation Processes in Molecular Glasses Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy... 

We review nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of secondary relaxation processes in glasses. The main focus is work on molecular glasses, where the secondary relaxation is usually associated with spatially highly restricted motion. 

From its very beginning nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used to unravel dynamic processes in amorphous matter, where the high selectivity of this technique was exploited. Recent progress has largely benefited from the development of multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, significantly extending the traditional techniques such as spin-lattice relaxation and line-shape analyses. Modern NMR techniques helped a lot to understand the molecular dynamics in disordered systems such as the a-process. 

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has been extensively used to assess structural properties, electronic parameters and diffusion behavior of the hydride phases of numerous metals and alloys using mostly transient NMR techniques or low-resolution spectroscopy [3]. The NMR relaxation times are extremely useful to assess various diffusion processes over very wide ranges of hydrogen mobility in crystalline and amorphous phases [3]. In addition, several borohydrides [4-6] and alanates [7-11] have also been characterized by these conventional solid-state NMR methods over the years where most attention was on rotation dynamics of the BHT, A1H4, and AlHe anions detection of order-disorder phase transitions or thermal decomposition. There has been little indication of fast long-range diffusion behavior in any complex hydride studied by NMR to date [4-11]. 

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