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wu, weimin (2006) Field-cycling NMR investigations of nuclear spin relaxation and proton tunnelling. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

A current-switched superconducting field-cycling NMR spectrometer has been designed and built for studying the role of quantum tunnelling in molecular dynamics. The instrument is designed for work in the solid state with sample temperatures extending from 4K up to 300K. The maximum field-switching rate is 10Ts-1. Among the samples studied in this thesis is the nuclear spin-relaxation and proton tunnelling.

Concerted double proton transfer in the hydrogen bonds of carboxylic acid dimers is well established as the model system for translational quantum tunnelling. The model system has been chosen to illustrate the smooth quantum-to-classical transition and at all temperatures the proton transfer is characterised by a single correlation time.

Quadrupolar interactions introduce an additional relaxation to the proton spin polarisation. The enhanced relaxation of the proton spin appears as a dip in the proton magnetisation curve. This technique is employed to measure the quadrupolar transition frequency of 14N and 35Cl and determine the structure of heroin hydrochloride.



The introduction of a second spin species has a significant effect on the spin-lattice relaxation. Compared with homonuclear systems, the spectral density acquires additional components characterised by the sum and difference Larmor frequencies of the two nuclei. Further, instead of a single relaxation time, there are four elements of a relaxation matrix. Therefore, the magnetisation recovery becomes bi-exponential and the initial polarisation state of the second nucleus strongly affects the magnetisation recovery of the nucleus which is being observed. We shall report on the results of spin-lattice relaxation investigations on 1H-13C, 1H-19F systems. The role of heteronuclear interactions in spin-lattice relaxation and the newly developed methodology of field-cycling relaxometry will be discussed. This represents the first 13C field-cycling NMR experiment and the first to measure the field dependence of the off-diagonal element of the relaxation matrix.

Item Type:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors:	A. J., Horsewill
Keywords:	NMR, Field-cycling, proton tunnelling, spin relaxation, NQR
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics > QC501 Electricity and magnetism
Faculties/Schools:	UK Campuses > Faculty of Science > School of Physics and Astronomy
Item ID:	10155
Depositing User:	EP, Services
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2006
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2017 11:22
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155

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