Bonding and dynamical phenomena in MgO: A high temperature 17O and 25Mg NMR study

Abstract

We have measured the isotropic chemical shifts (δiso) and the spin-lattice relaxation times (T1) for 17O and 25Mg in MgO from room temperature up to 1300° C. The 17O chemical shifts increase linearly from 47 ppm at room temperature to 57 ppm at 1300° C, and over the same temperature range the 25Mg chemical shift increases linearly from 25 to 27 ppm. These changes are not the result of changes in the bulk magnetic susceptibility of the samples, but may be due to increased orbital overlap which is the result of the increase in thermal vibration of the ions with temperature. In the case of 25Mg, the shift to lower shielding with increasing temperature is opposite to that expected from simple bond length versus chemical shift trends established for the oxides at room temperature. If this is a general phenomenon, high-temperature NMR data may be biased to lower shielding.