EPR Studies of Cu2+ in dl-Aspartic Acid Single Crystals

EPR studies of Cu2+ doped dl-Aspartic Acid [NH2CH(CH2COOH)COO] powder and single crystal have been carried out at 113 and 300 K. The principal hyperfine and g values, covalancy parameter, mixing coefficients and Fermi-contact term of the complex were obtained, and the ground-state wavefuntion of the Cu2+ ion in the lattice has been constructed.

An EPR Study on VO2+ and Mn2+ Ions in Some Zeolites

The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) of hydrated VOSO4 ·3H2O and MnCl2 · 2H2O, adsorbed on the synthetic zeolites 3A, 4A, 5A and 13X of pore diameters 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 1.0 nm, respectively, and the natural zeolites heulandite and clinoptilolite was investigated. The spectra indicated that the coordination structures are VO(H2O)52+ and Mn(H2O)62+ , and that their EPR line widths vary with the pore diameters and the surface areas of the zeolites. The spectra of VO(H2O)52+ in natural zeolites at room temperature display an isotropic behavior and therefore indicate that the water ligands are mobile. The EPR spin Hamiltonian parameters, the molecule orbital constant ß2*2 , and the Fermi contact term Keff were determined and are discussed. The spectra of Mn(H2O)62+ for narrow-pore zeolites indicate the existence of mobile and immobile water, whereas for wide-pore and natural zeolites they indicated the existence of only mobile water. The obtained Mn(H2O)62+ spectra are discussed.

Experimental and Theoretical-Study of Carbon-Fluorine Couplings in the NMR-Spectra of 2-Fluoroaryl Ketones

Calculations by the IPPP-INDO method give the spin-spin coupling constants for the side-chain carbons, 3JCF and 4JCF, as 4.97 and 6.86 Hz respectively with substantial contributions to through-space coupling from the pathway CO-C-H…F. The observed values for 1-(2- fluorophenyl ) ethanone , 3.3 and 7.2 Hz, and for 1-(2,5- difluorophenyl ) ethanone , 3.7 and 7.3 Hz, are in good agreement with these predictions. Two compounds, a dihydroindenone and a naphthalenone, in which this pathway cannot be effective, show no fluorine coupling to the aliphatic carbon next to the carbonyl and the values of 3JCF are reduced to 2.2 and 2.5 Hz, consistent with the loss of a through-space Fermi contact term of the kind described above.

Theory of 13C and 1H paramagnetic shifts in uranocene. Does it indicate f orbital covalency?

The paramagnetic shift resulting from f orbital covalency for lanthanide fluorides has been successfully treated theoretically in earlier studies. This theoretical method has been modified to calculate the paramagnetic shift for 13C and 1H in uranocenes. It is shown that the very large anisotropy in the magnetic moment makes the treatments in the literature incorrect. The so-called "contact shift" in 13C is in reality three terms: (1) a dipolar contribution from spin in the carbon pz orbital, (2) a dipolar contribution from spin in the nearest neighbor carbon pz orbitals, and (3) an induced Fermi contact term. Contribution (1) is the largest. For 1H there are contributions from the direct dipolar interaction of spin in the nearest carbon pz orbital and the induced Fermi contact term. Both terms are nearly equal in magnitude. The theory, however, predicts a much smaller magnitude and the incorrect sign for the shift as measured experimentally. The measured shift must, therefore, result from a polarization mechanism in which exchange interactions between the f electrons and electrons in filled orbitals cause spin delocalization into the ligand σ orbitals. It is argued that this polarization mechanism operates primarily through the overlap of the outer 6s and 6p orbitals of the uranium atom with the σ orbitals of the ligand making the observed nmr shifts insensitive to the nature of the bonding between the ligand and the uranium atom. We conclude, therefore, that the question of how much f orbitals are involved in covalent bonds between uranium and the ligands in uranocene cannot be answered by measuring the paramagnetic shift in 13C or 1H.