1. Structure and dynamics of S3- radicals in ultramarine-type pigment based on zeolite A: Electron spin resonance and electron spin echo studies.
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Goslar, Janina, Lijewski, Stefan, Hoffmann, Stanisław K., Jankowska, Aldona, and Kowalak, Stanisław
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ELECTRON paramagnetic resonance ,MAGNETIC resonance ,PARAMAGNETISM ,ELECTRON spin echoes ,ZEOLITES - Abstract
X-band electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra of S
3 - radicals in ultramarine analog (pigment) prepared from zeolite A and maintaining the original structure of parent zeolite were recorded in the temperature range of 4.2–380 K. Electron spin echo experiments (echo detected ESR, electron spin-lattice relaxation, and spin echo dephasing) were performed in the temperature range of 4.2–50 K. The rigid lattice g factors are gx =2.0016, gy =2.0505, and gz =2.0355, and they are gradually averaged with temperature to the final collapse into a single line with g=2.028 above 300 K. This is due to reorientations of S3 - molecule between 12 possible orientations in the sodalite cage through the energy barrier of 2.4 kJ/mol. The low-lying orbital states of the open form of S3 - molecule having C2v symmetry are considered and molecular orbital (MO) theory of the g factors is presented. The orbital mixing coefficients were calculated from experimental g factors and available theoretical orbital splitting. They indicate that the unpaired electron spin density in the ground state is localized mainly (about 50%) on the central sulfur atom of S3 - anion radical, whereas in the excited electronic state the density is localized mainly on the lateral sulfur atoms (90%). A strong broadening of the ESR lines in directions around the twofold symmetry axis of the radical S3 - molecule (z-axis) is discovered below 10 K. It is due to a distribution of the S–S–S bond angle value influencing mainly the energy of the2 B2 -symmetry MO. This effect is smeared out by molecular dynamics at higher temperatures. A distribution of the g factors is confirmed by the recovery of the spin system magnetization during spin-lattice relaxation measurements, which is described by a stretched exponential function. Both the spin-lattice relaxation and electron spin echo dephasing are governed by localized phonon mode of energy of about 40 cm-1 . Thus, the anion-radical S3 - molecules are weakly bonded to the zeolite framework, and they do not participate in the phonon motion of the host lattice because of their own local dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2009
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