Nuclear spin conversion of water inside fullerene cages detected by low-temperature nuclear magnetic resonanceTools Mamone, Salvatore, Concistre, Maria, Carignani, Elisa, Meier, Benno, Krachmalnicoff, Andrea, Johannessen, Ole G., Lei, Xuegong, Li, Yongjun, Denning, Mark, Carravetta, Marina, Goh, Kelvin, Horsewill, Anthony J., Whitby, Richard J. and Levitt, Malcolm H. (2014) Nuclear spin conversion of water inside fullerene cages detected by low-temperature nuclear magnetic resonance. Journal of Chemical Physics, 140 (19). p. 194306. ISSN 0021-9606 Full text not available from this repository.AbstractThe water-endofullerene H2O@C60 provides a unique chemical system in which freely rotating water molecules are confined inside homogeneous and symmetrical carbon cages. The spin conversion between the ortho and para species of the endohedral H2O was studied in the solid phase by low-temperature nuclear magnetic resonance. The experimental data are consistent with a second-order kinetics, indicating a bimolecular spin conversion process. Numerical simulations suggest the simultaneous presence of a spin di↵usion process allowing neighbouring ortho and para molecules to exchange their angular momenta. Cross-polarization experiments found no evidence that the spin conversion of the endohedral H2O molecules is catalysed by 13C nuclei present in the cages.
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