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1Bone and Joint Research Unit, St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK.
Abstract:
Both 79Br and 81Br nuclei have very large magnetic moments and hence can give rise to large hyperfine splittings. However, for the title compound, dibromonitroso-p-benzene sulphonate (DBNBS), which is a widely used spin-trap, liquid-phase spectra of radical adducts are characterised by narrow EPR features with no bromine splitting, despite the expected delocalisation of spin-density onto bromine. I find that for such radicals in the solid-state the 14N parallel features are very broad, although the seven expected hyperfine features from the 79Br and 81Br nuclei were not clearly defined. I use these results to offer an explanation for the complete absence of any hyperfine splitting from bromine in the isotropic spectra.
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