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Chemical behaviours of positive muons implanted in crystalline tris/acetylacetonato/chromium/III/, iron/III/, and cobalt/III/ were investigated by means of the muon spin relaxation technique. The muon spin relaxation function was exponential in tris/acetylacetonato/iron/III/ and Gaussian in tris/acetylacetonato/cobalt/III/, suggesting that the muon spin relaxation may be ascribed to the interaction between the muon spin and a fluctuating electronic spin in the former and between the muon and a static nuclear spin in the latter. The yield of diamagnetic muon species was found to be nearly unity in these three complexes. Based on the analysis of the relaxation function, it is likely that the positive muon implanted in the cobalt/III/ complex will reside at a distance of about 1.7 A from the cobalt atom.
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Sakai, Y., Kubo, M.K., Tominaga, T. et al. A μSR study on chemical behaviors of positive muons in crystalline tris/acetylacetonato/metal/III/ complexes. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Letters 127, 425–436 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02166770
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