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Electron-electron double-resonance investigations of irradiated organic crystals: The influence of deuterium substitution

Conference · · Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Electron-electron double resonance (ELDOR) investigations of irradiated organic crystals have shown promising uses of deuterium substitution in the ELDOR identification of magnetically different radicals associated with a poorly resolved ESR spectrum. Replacement of the water of crystallization in potassium acetate with deuterium oxide has removed the proton spin-flip lines in the ELDOR spectrum of the methyl radical and has increased the ELDOR resolution observed at 77°K. Studies of the hydrogen-deuterium exchange reactions in irradiated glycine-d3 and L-alanine crystals have shown the absence of ELDOR lines at the deuteron hyperfine frequency aD and the absence of proton-deuteron combination lines, but the presence of an intense line at the proton hyperfine splitting frequency. In addition, a decrease in the intermolecular cross-exchange near room temperature permitted a separation of the proton ELDOR spectra for each hydrogen-deuterium exchange reaction, making it possible to identify the different simultaneously occurring reactions.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
NSA Number:
NSA-29-029104
OSTI ID:
4336192
Report Number(s):
ORO--4062-13; CONF-731067--1
Journal Information:
Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Journal Name: Journal of Magnetic Resonance Vol. 14; ISSN 0022-2364
Publisher:
Elsevier BV
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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