Title
Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Detection of Energetic and Controlled Materials: Theoretical Study
Abbreviated Journal Title
Appl. Magn. Reson.
Keywords
MANY-BODY APPROACH; ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE; HYPERFINE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; ROTATING-FRAME; GROUND-STATE; BASIS-SETS; N-14; FIELD; Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical; Spectroscopy
Abstract
There has been a growing interest in nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) techniques useful for the detection of explosives and drugs in solid state systems. This paper uses the first-principles one-electron Hartree-Fock theoretical method to study the nuclear quadrupole interaction parameters e (2) qQ and eta for the N-14 nuclei in the explosives RDX and beta-HMX as well as the drugs cocaine and heroin. It has been found in our earlier published investigations reviewed here that there is very good agreement for our calculated e (2) qQ and eta for N-14, for all these four systems, and experiment. We also present our unpublished theoretical results for cocaine with an HCl molecule attached. We successfully explain quantitatively the drastic decrease in e (2) qQ in going to cocaine-HCl from cocaine-free base as well as the observed substantial increase in eta and discuss the implications of these dramatic changes for NQR detection in general.
Journal Title
Applied Magnetic Resonance
Volume
43
Issue/Number
4
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
591
Last Page
617
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0937-9347
Recommended Citation
"Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Detection of Energetic and Controlled Materials: Theoretical Study" (2012). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 3123.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/3123
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