Electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy has
been applied to several nitrogen-coordinated
oxovanadium(IV) complexes. Results for two amine-nitrogen
complexes, VO(edda) and VO(gly)2, two
imine-nitrogen complexes, VO(salen) and VO(salophen), and one
isothiocyanate complex,
VO(NCS)4
2-, are
presented.
[H2edda =
ethylenediamine-N,N‘-diacetic acid,
gly- = glycinate, H2salen =
N,N‘-bis(salicylidene)ethylenediamine,
and H2salophen =
N,N‘-bis(salicylidene)-o-phenylenediamine.]
The 14N hyperfine coupling (HFC) and
quadrupole
coupling (NQC) parameters have been determined from computer simulation
of the two-pulse and three-pulse
ESEEM data recorded at some selected field positions. Resulting
NQC parameters are e
2
qQ = 3.1 MHz
(VO(edda)), 2.7 MHz (VO(gly)2), 2.4 MHz (VO(salen)),
2.6 MHz (VO(salophen), and 1.0 MHz
(VO(NCS)4
2-).
The
isotropic HFC parameters, |A
iso|, show a
good correlation to the nitrogen type as 4.98 MHz (VO(edda)),
5.10
MHz (VO(gly)2), 5.83 MHz (VO(salen)), 5.78 MHz
(VO(salophen)), and 7.47 MHz
(VO(NCS)4
2-). The
isotropic
and anisotropic parts of the HFC parameters are analyzed in terms of
the indirect spin transfer mechanism. The
analysis has given good quantitative agreements, supporting the
validity of this mechanism. According to the
mechanism, the isotropic part of HFC depends essentially on two
factors, the degree of the (negative) polarization
of the nitrogen lone-pair sp
n
-hybrid orbital and
the s orbital content of this orbital. The analysis has shown
that
the polarization is invariably around −1%. Thus, the good
correlation can be attributed to the distinct difference
of the s-orbital contents between nitrogen types.