The hyperfine structure in the ethylene radical cation: An accurate CI study
β Scribed by Sten Lunell; Ming-Bao Huang
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 511 KB
- Volume
- 168
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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β¦ Synopsis
The hyperfine structure in the ethylene radical cation, including isotropic and anisotropic coupling constants for H and W, has been computed from accurate CI wavefunctions calculated at the experimental geometry. The isotropic hypexfine coupling constant for the protons is obtained as -4.5 G and for the carbon atoms -3.0 G for a torsion angle of 25". The calculated aa value was found to be very sensitive to the torsion angle around the C-C bond. This fact was used to obtain an independent estimate of 28" for the torsion angle from recent ESR measurements.
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