The Nuclear-Electron Overhauser Effect of Carbon-13 as Studied by Multi-Field Dynamic Polarization Experiments in Solutions

Abstract

Abstract Experimental dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) studies at 176 gauss, 3420 gauss, and 13 200 gauss and at various temperatures have been concerned with the Overhauser effect of solvent carbon-13 nuclei in solutions of free radicals. Detailed measurements have been made in solutions of benzene and methyl iodide. The relative importance of scalar and dipolar coupling, the correlation times and spectral intensity functions have been of the greatest interest. The importance of the “three-spin-effect” has been investigated by applying triple-resonance irradiation. Dipolar and scalar hyperfine couplings between carbon-13 nuclei and odd electrons are of comparable magnitude, where the main difference of the DNP enhancement factors is caused by different shapes of the spectral intensity function for the fluctuations of the scalar interaction. The results are discussed in terms of the molecular structure and of the collision attitudes.