Mössbauer and infrared spectroscopic studies of some organotin(IV) schiff base complexes

Several organotin(IV) complexes with quadri- and terdentate anionic Schiff base ligands have been investigated in the solid state using ¹¹⁹Sn Mössbauer and IR spectroscopies, Mössbauer parameters derived from both zero-field and magnetically perturbed spectra suggest that the R₂Sn(Salen)(R = Me, Et, Ph) and Me₂Sn(Saldap-2OH) complexes have similarly distorted trans-octahedral structures. However, in Ph₂Sn(HSaldap-2-O) the ligand appears to be only terdentate, leading to a penta-coordinate structure similar to those of the R₂Sn(Sal-N-2-OC₆H₄) derivatives (R = Me, Ph). For Ph₃Sn(Sal-N-2-OC₆H₄) the asymmetry parameter of the electric field gradient is close to unity, confirming a mer-octahedral configuration for this complex.     

Experimental constraints onJ PC=1−+,I=1, Hybrid mesons

Using data on coherent production of π⁺π⁺π^- systems in π⁺ collisions with nuclei we exclude the existence ofJ ^PC=1^?+,I=1, exotic hybrid mesons with masses below 1.5 GeV and widths greater than 20 MeV, provided that their primary coupling is to πρ systems. Hybrid states with just such properties have recently been predicted from arguments based on QCD sum rules. Our experimental limit is based on Primakoff production of these states, and on an argument using vector dominance to relate their radiative widths to πρ channels. There has been increasing interest of late in the existence of hybrid states, which, in the case of mesons, contain a valence gluon in addition to aq \(\bar q\) pair in a color-octet state [1–5]. The pursuit of spectroscopic gluon degrees of freedom has been strongly motivated by the general QCD picture of hadrons, as well as by many specific calculations based on QCD sum rules, lattice simulations, and more phenomenological approaches such as QCD-bag models. Although much effort, both thoretical and experimental, has been devoted to the spectroscopy of glueballs, for which several candidates exist [6], it has also been realized that hybrid states may be as amenable to discovery, and perhaps less ambiguous to interpretation.     

The structure of bis(trialkyltin) carbonates: Evidence for two non-equivalent tin sites

Bis(tributyltin) oxide or trimethyltin hydroxide react with carbon dioxide to afford the bis(trialkyltin) carbonates, (R₃SnO)₂CO; ¹¹⁹Sn NMR (in the case of R = Bu) or ^119mSn Mössbauer spectroscopy show that these compounds contain 4- and 5-coordinate tin atom sites.     

Mössbauer spectra of organotin compounds : VI. Dithiolatotin compounds

The Mössbauer spectra of a wide range of organo(dithiolato)tin compounds R₂Sn(SR′)₂ have been measured. A comparison of calculated quadrupole splittings with the observed values has enabled structures to be assigned. Tetrahedral configurations occur in most of the compounds, the thiocetates (and probably the mercaptoacetates) being exceptional in having octahedral structures.