A series of four anhydrous group 13 chloride salts has been studied by (35/37)Cl solid-state NMR spectroscopy and complementary quantum chemical calculations. Due to the large (35/37)Cl quadrupolar interactions in these salts, a high magnetic field (21.1 T) and the variable-offset QCPMG technique was used to obtain full chlorine central transition (m = -1/2 <--> 1/2) NMR spectra. Analyses of th...

Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (HNMR) has become a very valuable tool in the study of the structure and dynamics of anisotropic fluids, especially lipid bilayer model and biological membranes (1,2). Because the deuterium nucleus has spin / = 1, there is a quadrupolar splitting of the nuclear Zeeman resonance line into a doublet whenever the nucleus experiences a non-zero electric field gr...

We present a microscopic theory of equilibrium solvation in solvents with zero dipole moment and nonzero quadrupole moment (quadrupolar solvents). The theory is formulated in terms of autocorrelation functions of the quadrupolar polarization (structure factors). It can be therefore applied to an arbitrary dense quadrupolar solvent for which the structure factors are defined. We formulate a simp...

Multifrequency electron spin-echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy is employed to measure the strength of the hyperfine coupling of magnetic nuclei to the paramagnetic (S = 1/2) S2 form of photosystem II (PSII). Previous X-band-frequency ESEEM studies indicated that one or more histidine nitrogens are electronically coupled to the tetranuclear manganese cluster in the S2 state of PSII. ...