The 4d S0 ground-state transitions to the 4d 9 5p configuration of palladium (Pd) have been studied. For this purpose, a tunable, single-mode, deep-UV cw laser has been built to generate the sum frequency of a frequency-doubled Ti:S laser with a second Ti:S laser. The produced wavelengths range from 244 to 276 nm. From the measured spectra the frequency splitting due to hyperfine structure and ...

The first investigation of the microwave spectrum of ethylenediamine (NH CH –CH NH ) showed that in the gas phase this molecule occurs in two conformers which both exhibit a large amplitude tunneling motion corresponding to an interchange of the roles of the amino groups. In conformer I, the tunneling splitting is about 172 MHz while it is only 2.7 MHz in conformer II. In the paper an analysis ...

The synthesis and characterization of some new binuclear copper (II) complexes, based on the use of large, pyrole-containing macrocycles, the so called "expanded porphyrins", [Cu2(macrocycle)]+4 is described. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) studies indicate a weak "half-field line", which is characteristic of the Cu(II)-Cu(II) dimer, is observed at about 1600G. The obser...

A study of the hydrogen hyperfine couplings of the Mn-cluster of the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II in the S(2) state of the Kok cycle by means of hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy was achieved. Features corresponding to hyperfine interaction of at least two hydrogen nuclei were detected. Combining our results with previous ENDOR data, hyperfine constants were determined, a...