Abstract
The molecular dynamics and electronic structure of the - radical in crystalline have been studied using muon spin rotation and relaxation. At room temperature - appears to be in a state of quasifree rotation. At the critical temperature =260 K the local electronic structure and molecular dynamics change discontinuously as expected for a first-order phase transition. The correlation times for reorientation are remarkably close to those determined by recent NMR experiments on , suggesting that the molecular dynamics of - are strongly coupled to those of its neighbors.
- Received 5 November 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1347
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