Proton and fluorine magnetic resonance absorption, and spin–lattice relaxation time measurements, have been carried out on crystalline ammonia–boron trifluoride complex in the temperature ranges from 4.2 to 300 K in the continuous wave method, and from 89 to 373 K using the pulse technique. The second moment results indicated that the BF3 motion is hindered at ∼200 K, as previously reported, while the NH3 group is considerably mobile at 77 K but an additional motion occurs at 4.2 K. The magnetization decay of 1H and 19F after a 180 ° pulse showed intrinsically nonexponential behavior. The T1 data, taken as the initial decay time constant, are compared with approximate theoretical estimates including three dissimilar spins. For the 19F relaxation at high temperature, a set of three differential rate equations was reduced to a pair of two differential equations in which the effect of the third atom is taken into account in the diagonal coefficients. The temperature dependence was almost completely predicted by this treatment. Three dipolar contributions 19F–19F, 19F–11B, and 19F–1H were found to be 1.244, 2.420, and 0.222×109 s−2 for the relaxation constants, respectively. A discrepancy between theory and experiment was observed in the 1H relaxation data at high temperature and for 19F at low temperature, both of which can not be explained by assuming a two-dissimilar-spins system and require the consideration of magnetic polarization in the third atom.
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