Peculiarities of magnetic and spin effects in a biradical/stable radical complex (three-spin system). Theory and comparison with experiment.
The field dependencies of biradical recombination probability in the presence of paramagnetic species with spins S(3) = 1 and S(3) = (1)/(2) have been calculated in the framework of the density matrix formalism. To describe the effect of the "third" spin on the spin evolution in biradical, we have also considered the spin exchange interaction between the added spin and one of the paramagnetic biradical centers. A characteristic feature of the calculated field dependencies is the existence of several extrema with positions and magnitudes depending on the signs and values of the exchange integrals in the system. The method proposed can be used to describe the effect of spin catalysis. It is shown that for the system with the third spin S(3) = 1 spin catalysis manifests itself stronger than in the case of spin S(3) = (1)/(2). The dependence of spin catalysis efficiency on the exchange interaction with the third spin has an extremum with position independent of the value of the spin added.
Magin
Ilya M
IM
Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Institutskaya st. 3, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia. magin@kinetics.nsc.ru
Purtov
Petr A
PA
Kruppa
Alexander I
AI
Leshina
Tatiana V
TV