Structure and dynamics of organic ligand capping on the surface of clusters significantly influence the property and function of the clusters. Recently, we revealed that, in cysteine-capped (CdSe) 34 magic-sized cluster (CdSe-Cys), ligandcysteine has two capping structures, namely, monodentate ligand-cysteine with sulfur−cadmium bond and bidentate one with sulfur− and nitrogen−cadmium bonds. In this work, we examine the motion of ligand-cysteine capping on (CdSe) 34 by performing solid-state 2 H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in CdSe-Cys with the deuterated methanediyl group (−CD 2 −). 2 H quadrupolar Carr−Purcell− Meiboom−Gill (QCPMG) and quadrupolar-echo spectra of CdSe-Cys were measured. Temperature dependence of line width and spin−lattice relaxation time of spikelets in the QCPMG spectra suggested that monodentate ligand-cysteine undergoes molecular motion. The quadrupolar-echo spectra were a sum of a motionally narrowed peak at the center of the spectra and a typical 2 H Pake pattern, which are assigned to monodentate and bidentate ligand-cysteine, respectively. The lineshape analysis for the 2 H quadrupolar-echo spectra obtained at 0−40 °C revealed that the CH 2 group in monodentate ligandcysteine undergoes pseudoisotropic rotation by the combination of two intramolecular rotations around the Cd−S and S−C bonds with the activation energy of ∼19 kJ/mol. Further, no evidence was found for the exchange of the two capping structures.