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Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2016 Apr 14;18(14):9752-7. doi: 10.1039/c5cp07606d. Epub 2016 Mar 22.

Homogeneity of doping with paramagnetic ions by NMR.

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

Wenyu Li, Vinicius R Celinski, Johannes Weber, Nathalie Kunkel, Holger Kohlmann, Jörn Schmedt auf der Günne

Affiliations

  1. Inorganic Materials Chemistry, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076 Siegen, Germany. [email protected].

PMID: 27003194 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07606d

Abstract

In NMR, paramagnetic dopants change the relaxation behavior and the chemical shift of the nuclei in their immediate environment. Based on the concept that the "immediate environment" in a diamagnetic host material can be described as a sphere with radius r0, we developed a function for the fraction of unperturbed nuclei (the fraction of nuclei outside the sphere) which gives a link between the effective radius and the doping concentration. In the case of a homogeneous doping scenario a characteristic dependence is observed in both theory and experiment. We validated the model on a sample series where paramagnetic Eu(II) ions are doped into crystalline SrH2. The fraction of unperturbed nuclei was determined from the (1)H NMR signal and follows the predicted curve for a homogeneous doping scenario where the radius r0 is 17 Å.

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