Proton spin relaxation in 2-chloroacrylontirile by double resonance

Nuclear magnetic double resonance experiments were performed on the strongly coupled two-proton system (AB) in 2-chloroacrylontirile to study the spin relaxation processes. The single resonance parameters of the AB spectrum are (operating frequency 100 MHz): |vA - vB|=9.85±0.1 Hz and J _AB=2.8±0.1 Hz. Frequency-sweep double resonance spectra were obtained by irradiating each of the four transitions at different strengths of irradiation in the range 0.015 Hz to 2.35 Hz. These spectra were analysed by using the ‘Bloch approximation’ in the rotating frame for the ‘high’ irradiation strengths and the ‘simple line’ approximation for the ‘low’ irradiation strengths. The analysis showed that the proton relaxation in this molecule can be described by interaction with isotropic random fields of nearly equal strengths at the two nuclei with no appreciable correlation between them. Internal dipole-dipole interaction is not a significant mechanism (at room temperature). It is shown that for analysing ‘low’ irradiation spectra the choice of certain functions of intensity changes would lead to a marked distinction between the different relaxation mechanisms.