Room-temperature powder ENDOR spectra of β-protons in some organic π-radicals
Abstract
Good-quality powder ENDOR spectra have been obtained at room temperature for a variety of organic π-radicals containing β-protons. For some species, rotation of methyl groups, which modulates the isotropic hyperfine interaction and drives electron–nuclear ‘flip-flop’ relaxation, shows up very clearly through the strong dependence of the ENDOR intensity on the part of the e.s.r. spectrum which is monitored.