Decomposition of nuclear magnetic resonance spin-spin coupling constants into active and passive orbital contributions

Gräfenstein, Jürgen and Tuttle, Tell and Cremer, Dieter (2004) Decomposition of nuclear magnetic resonance spin-spin coupling constants into active and passive orbital contributions. Journal of Chemical Physics, 120 (21). pp. 9952-9968. ISSN 0021-9606 (https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1711598)

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Abstract

The theory for calculating spin-spin coupling constants (SS-CC) was studied using density functional theory (DFT). The mechanism of NMR spin-spin coupling in dependence of the electronic structure of a molecule and its bonding characteristics was also analyzed. A simple form of the new theory for analyzing SSCCs, called decomposition of J into orbital contributions using orbital currents and partial spin polarization (J-OC-PSP), was formulated in terms of one- and two-orbital contributions based on active orbitals. The Fermi contact (FC) coupling mechanism is predominantly based on exchange interactions.

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