Paramagnetic centers in pristine polycrystalline C60 samples are investigated at room temperature using
continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance (CW-EPR) and electron spin−echo spectroscopy. Two
paramagnetic species, with same measured g-values, are separated using echo-detected EPR and the PEANUT
pulse scheme. Electron-spin nutation frequencies for both species are measured using the latter technique.
For the doublet species, usually observed by CW-EPR, nutation frequency is 7.5 MHz. The second species,
with a nutation frequency of 10.4 MHz, is a spin triplet. This species is solely revealed by pulse methods and
corresponds to dipolar coupling of C60 paramagnetic centers located at the diagonals of the fullerene fcc
lattice.
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