Simultaneous multiple data set fits of all transition peaks of 133 Cs nuclei enabled us to obtain accurate cesium-133 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) parameters and Euler angles between the principal axis systems of the chemical shift (CS) and quadrupole coupling (Q) tensors of 133 Cs nuclei in Cs 2 CrO 4 . Although in a previous study of Cs 2 CrO 4 by Power et al. (W. P. Power, S. Mooibroek, R. E. Wasylishen, T. S. Cameron, J. Phys. Chem. 1994, 98, 1552, one central transition was observed for cesium sites 1 and 2 in the 133 Cs NMR spectra and one Euler angle between the CS tensors and Q tensors was obtained as 52 and 7 for cesium sites 1 and 2, respectively, the present single-crystal 133 Cs NMR measurements found two Euler angles (10(2) , 51.9(1) , 0 ) for site 1 and two central transition peaks for site 2. Three principal components of the CS tensor for Cs1 are oriented along the crystallographic a, b, and c axes, whereas none of the principal components of the Q tensor for Cs1 are oriented along the crystal axes. The principal component V 22 of the Q tensor for Cs1 is tilted 10 from the b axis in the bc plane, and the other two components are not located in the ac plane. Therefore, we have found that the requirement that "the quadrupole coupling tensor for a nucleus located in a mirror plane has one principal axis perpendicular to the mirror plane" cannot be applied to Cs1. On the other hand, δ 11 and V 22 for Cs2 are aligned along the b axis, and the other components of the CS and Q tensors deviate at an angle of 1.4(1) and 10.1(1) , respectively, from the a and c axes in the ac plane. A distortion-free powder 133 Cs NMR spectrum of Cs 2 CrO 4 was measured using a solid-state spin echo technique. Wiley Online Library 1760 errors. This situation has prompted us to re-examine Cs 2 CrO 4 in the form of a powder and single-crystal cesium-133 NMR study.
ExperimentalSample Preparation. Cs 2 CrO 4 (99.9%) was purchased from Alfa Aesar (Lancashire, UK). Large single crystals suitable for single-crystal NMR were grown by slow evaporation of an aqueous solution at room temperature. A single crystal was cut and the (1 0 1) face of the crystal (3.6 × 4 × 6 mm 3 ) was mounted on the yz plane in a Kel-F cubic box ( Figure S1 in Appendix S1, Supporting Information). Solid-state 133 Cs NMR. Single-crystal 133 Cs NMR spectra were acquired on a Varian INOVA-400WB spectrometer (Varian, Santa Clara, CA, USA) (52.50 MHz) equipped with a homemade single-crystal NMR probe (Pusan National University). A single pulse (typically 1-2 μs) sequence was applied. For each rotational axis, 19 spectra were recorded at the intervals of 10.0(1) . A distortion-free static powder NMR spectrum was measured on a Unity-Inova 600 spectrometer (KBSI, Daegu, Korea) at 78.69 MHz (14.1 T) using the solid echo (P 90 -τ 1 -P 90 -τ 2 ) pulse sequence: 1.5, 50, and 40 μs were used for P 90 , τ 1 , and τ 2 , respectively; four points in the free induction decay signals were left-shifted. Recycle delays of 20 and 80 s were used for the single pulse sequenc...