Dielektrische Relaxation und Elektronenspinrelaxation von Eisen(III)acetylacetonat in verdünnter Lösung/ Dielectric Relaxation and Electron Spin Relaxation of Ferric Acetylacetonate in Dilute Solutions

Abstract

Abstract The dielectric loss and electron spin resonance linewidth of ferric acetylacetonate have been measured in dilute solutions of benzene, m-and p-xylene, mesitylene and carbon tetrachloride. Permittivity measurements were made at 10 frequencies in the microwave region (1.2 m to 1 mm wave-length), ESR measurement at 2 frequencies (X and Q band). The permittivity results show a broad non-Debye pattern, yielding a mean correlation time of about 4 ps. The ESR results yield a mean correlation time of about 3 ps. The parallelism between the results obtained by both methods is discussed in view of a common relaxation process, which is the transient deformation of the chelate system resulting from stochastic induction by neighbouring solvent molecules.