Abstract
A new method for the direct determination of rotational angles based on 2-dimensional nutation exchange NQR spectroscopy is proposed. The method involves the detection of exchange processes through NQR nutation spectra recorded after the mixing interval. The response is analysed of a system of spins I = 3/2 in zero applied field, experiencing electric quadrupole couplings, to the three-pulse sequence with incrementing pulse widths. The systems investigated here were hexachloroethane and tetrachloroethylene, which show threefold and twofold reorientational jumps about the carbon-carbon axis, respectively. It is shown that the 2D nutation exchange NQR spectrum exhibits characteristic ridges, which reveal the motional mechanism in a model-independent fashion. The angles through which the molecule rotates can be read directly from elliptical ridges in the 2D spectrum, which are also sensitive to the value of asymmetry parameter of the electric field gradient tensor.
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