The positive muon and μSR spectroscopy: powerful tools for investigating the structure and dynamics of free radicals and spin probes in complex systems

I McKenzie - Annual Reports Section" C"(Physical Chemistry), 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The positive muon (μ+) can be incorporated into free radicals where it acts as a probe of the
structure and dynamics. The muoniated radicals are characterized by a series of magnetic …

Probing Radical Addition to 1‐Phosphabutadienes by Employing Muonium as a “Light Isotope” of Hydrogen

HTG Walsgrove, PW Percival… - Chemistry–A European …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding free radical addition to multiple bonds is important to elucidating the
mechanistic details of addition polymerization reactions, albeit the fleeting radical …

Spintronic and electronic phenomena in organic molecules measured with μSR

K Wang, L Schulz, M Willis, S Zhang… - Journal of the Physical …, 2016 - journals.jps.jp
The use of implanted muons to probe the spin dynamics and electronic excitations in
organic materials is reviewed. At first, a brief introduction to the historical context and …

The reactions of imidazol-2-ylidenes with the hydrogen atom: a theoretical study and experimental confirmation with muonium

I McKenzie, JC Brodovitch, PW Percival… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The possible radicals resulting from hydrogen atom addition to the imidazole rings of 1, 3-bis
(isopropyl)-4, 5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene (1) and 1, 3-bis (2, 4, 6-trimethylphenyl) imidazol …

Difluoromethylborates and muonium for the study of isonitrile insertion affording phenanthridines via imidoyl radicals

K Konagaya, YE Huang, K Iwami, T Fujino… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The 6-(difluoromethyl) phenanthridine unit is a highly attractive fluoroalkyl-substituted planar
nitrogen heterocycle in pharmaceutical and agrochemical research. In this paper, we report …

[PDF][PDF] Probing the reactivity of a stable silene using muonium

BM McCollum, T Abe, JC Brodovitch… - Angewandte …, 2008 - academia.edu
Since the discovery of stable multiply bonded silicon compounds in 1981, the synthesis and
reactivity of silenes (R2Si= CR2) has been a major focus of research and many review …

Free radicals formed by H (Mu) addition to fluoranthene

JC Brodovitch, B Addison-Jones… - Canadian journal of …, 2003 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les radicaux libres formés par addition de l'atome d'hydrogène à la molécule aromatique du
fluoranthène ont été étudiés en utilisant le muonium comme analogue de l'atome …

Density functional theory study of 12mer single-strand guanine oligomer and associated muon hyperfine interaction

WN Zaharim, SNA Ahmad, S Sulaiman, H Rozak… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory method at the B3LYP/6-31G level was used to determine the
structure of 12mer single-strand guanine oligomers. The length and width of the optimized …

Hydrogen-atom addition to nucleobases in the solid state: characterization of the corresponding muoniated radicals using μSR

I McKenzie - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
The radicals formed by muonium (Mu) addition to four nucleobases (adenine, guanine,
cytosine, and thymine) have been characterized by avoided level-crossing muon spin …

Hyperfine coupling in methyl radical isotopomers

I McKenzie, JC Brodovitch, K Ghandi… - The Journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The hyperfine coupling constants (hfcs) of two methyl radical isotopomers, CH2Mu and
CD2Mu, have been measured over a wide range of temperature in ketene and ketene-d 2 …