High-resolution solid-state oxygen-17 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of transition metal carbonyls

Abstract

We have obtained the first high-resolution solid-state oxygen-17 n.m.r. spectra of a series of transition metal carbonyls and results indicate that the principal elements of the ¹⁷O chemical shift tensors may be determined, that the anisotropies are very large (Δδca. 600–700 p.p.m.) while the ¹⁷O quadrupole coupling constants are very small (ca. 1 MHz), and that magnetically nonequivalent C¹⁷O groups may be detected.