High-Field NMR Determination of Magnetic Susceptibility Tensors and Angular Correlation Factors of Halomethanes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00248a009

Quadropolar splittings in the high resolution deuteron spectra of deuterated haloforms (CX3(2)H, X=Cl, Br, I) and methylene halides (CX2H(2)H) have been measured at 14.35 T (93.5 MHz) and used to determine the anisotropy or asymmetry of their molecular magnetic susceptibility tensors.By combination with the known isotropic susceptibilities, the principal susceptibility tensors have been deduced and decomposed into bond susceptibility tensors.Neither the average susceptibilities nor the principal susceptibility tensor elements of the complete halomethane series follow Pascal's additivity rules.The phenomenon is tentatively attributed to a variable paramagnetic contribution perpendicular to the X-bond.Angular correlation Kirkwood g₂ factors have been determined for CHCl3 and CHBr3 and are compared with available literature data.