Magnetic deflection spectrum of vanadium tetrachloride
Magnetic deflection spectrum of vanadium tetrachloride
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四氯化钒的磁偏转谱
DOI:
10.1021/ja00197a009
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发表时间:
1989
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通讯作者:
D. Herrick
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作者:
A. Gedanken;N. A. Kuebler;M. Robin;D. Herrick
The magnetic deflection spectra of VC14 seeded into supersonic beams of the rare gases have been determined. It is found that in the heavier rare gases (Ar, Kr, and Xe) the Stern-Gerlach splitting patterns are just those expected for a molecule in a spin-doublet state, as complicated by the presence of nondeflecting (VC14) X clusters. In these beams, the satellite splittings of unclustered VC14 scale with thesquare of the beam velocities, and there is no evidence in the Stern-Gerlach spectra for the rapid (10" 9 123s) intramolecular spin relaxation (ISR) so apparent in the EPR and NMR spectra of this molecule in condensed phases. Modeling of the ISR effect on SG deflection spectraand comparison of these results with experiment shows that if ISR is in any way active in beam-cooled VC14, the spin relaxation time is longer than 10" 4 s. By contrast, the deflection spectrum of VC14 seeded into He is far more compressed than otherwise expected, suggesting that ISR may be at work in this case. Analysis of the observed Stern-Gerlach band shape of VC14 in the He beam shows that if ISR is the cause of the anomalous spectrum, then the ISR time is approximately 6 s. The use of magnetic deflection to determine the possible association of the carrier gases with the paramagnetic target molecule is presented as an illustration of neutral-molecule mass spectrometry.We havebeen involved recently in studying the interactions of magnetic molecules with inhomogeneous magnetic fields using the Stern-Gerlach deflection technique. In this method, the magnetic molecule, used either pure or seeded into a rare gas, issues from a pulsed valve/dual skimmer arrangement to form a well-collimated supersonic molecular beam passing between the poles of a gradient magnet. Depending upon the magnetic substate Mj of the molecule, it may be deflected by the field gradient into the region of higher field, into the region of lower field, or not at all. The spatial dispersion of the beam is measured by tuning a mass spectrometer to the mass of the magnetic species of interest while translating the spectrometer in each case in a direction normal to that in which the beam is traveling but parallel to the direction of the field gradient. Working in this way, we have studied the magnetic deflection spectra of oxygen and its clusters1 and of nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide, and some organic nitroxide radicals. 2