Abstract

Magnetic hyperfine interactions in the ground and first excited states of CdH and CdCH3 were studied using high resolution electronic spectroscopy. Hyperfine splittings associated with the H nucleus were observed in the X state of CdH; hyperfine splittings associated with 111Cd and 113Cd were observed in both the ground and first excited states of CdH and CdCH3. The hyperfine parameters of CdH were found to be similar to the corresponding parameters of CdCH3. Comparison of the ground state molecular hyperfine constants with values determined in an Ar matrix electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) study [L. B. Knight, Jr. and W. Weltner, Jr., J. Chem. Phys. 55, 2061 (1971)] indicates clearly a shift of unpaired electron spin density towards Cd, in the matrix. The excited state molecular hyperfine constants indicate that the unpaired electron essentially resides in a Cd 5pπ orbital.

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