Paramagnetic spins

The neutral radical 11.12 is an interesting heterocyclic analogue of 2,2 -bipyridyl. This paramagnetic (spin-bearing) ligand forms an N, -chelated complex with bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)cobalt(ir). ... 

The equivalent of the spin-other-orbit operator in eq. (8.30) splits into two contributions, one involving the interaction of the electron spin with the magnetic field generated by the movement of the nuclei, and one describing the interaction of the nuclear spin with the magnetic field generated by the movement of the electrons. Only the latter survives in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, and is normally called the Paramagnetic Spin-Orbit (PSO) operator. The operator is the one-electron part of... 

Here, yc stands for the (giant) magnetic moment of the cluster which replaces the "y" for single. Isolated paramagnetic spins k is the Boltzmann constant. 

The temperature dependence of the molar magnetic susceptibility (x) of an assembly of paramagnetic spins without interaction is characterized by the Curie behavior with x = C/T where C = /Vy2( 2.S (.S + l)/3k. It is a very common situation in the organometallic chemistry of radical species when the spin density is essentially localized on the metal atom. Since, in most cases, this atom is surrounded by various innocent ligands, intermolecular interactions are very weak and in most cases are reflected by a small contribution described by a Curie-Weiss behavior, with x = C/(T 0) where 0 is the Curie-Weiss temperature. A positive value for 0 reflects ferromagnetic interactions while a negative value — the most common situation — reflects an antiferromagnetic interaction. 

The scission product from the diamagnetic [Ga(BPG)(DTBC)] complex is considerably less (4%) than that from the corresponding Fe complex (97%) (29). Gallium(III) is a diamagnetic d10 ion with an ionic radius very similar to that of iron(III) and expected to possess similar Lewis properties to that of Fe(III). Thus, the results clearly demonstrate that the ability of the metal center to transfer paramagnetic spin density to... 

Specific Molecular Interactions (Jardetzky) Nuclear Paramagnetic (Spin-Spin) Relaxation in Solids 7 499... 

According to NMR theory [30], contributions to spin-spin coupling come from paramagnetic spin-orbital (PSO), diamagnetic spin-orbital (DSO), Fermi contact (FC), and spin-dipolar (SD) interactions [30] ... 

In ref. 5, a method has been suggested of controlling the character of the spatial distribution of the additive in solid matrices, which is based on analyzing the EPR spectra of spin-labelled molecules introduced into the system under study. Due to the magnetic dipole dipole interactions of the paramagnetic spin-labelled molecules, the width of their EPR lines in the diluted (concentration N < 1 M) vitrified solutions changes in proportion to their concentration... 

For paramagnetic spin systems, there are two major processes of relaxation (55). One relaxation mode involves spin-flipping accompanied by lattice phonon creation and/or annihilation (spin-lattice relaxation), and the other mode is due to the mutual flipping of neighboring spins such that equilibrium between the spins is maintained (spin-spin relaxation). For the former mode of relaxation, th decreases with increasing temperature, and the latter relaxation mode, while in certain cases temperature dependent, becomes more important (th decreases) as the concentration of spins increases. 

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