Tetrakis (dl-mande!atej hafniumflV) / y,y angular correlation Summary Retention and thermal annealing effects following (n, 7) reaction were measured in solid tetrakis(dl-mandelate) hafnium(IV) by time differential measurements of the 133-482 keV y, y angular correlation of 181 Ta. The irradiation of the inactive compound with thermal neutrons 3 leads to a large spreading of the quadrupolar interaction parameters Q,(/) = s + V" which does not allow the characterization of a definite radioactive ^0 hafnium atom site. n ~ The thermal treatment permitted the detection of the quadrupolar interaction parameters as they were determined in the labelled compound and the analysis of the data revealed an important proportion of molecular reformation. the Legendre polynomials and τ the mean-life of the intermediate level of angular momentum I. The value of fc max depends on the spins of the levels and on the multipolarities of the gamma transitions. The coefficient s G fc (f) contain all the information on the perturbation. In the case of a spin I = 5/2 of the intermediate level, s kn cos ( u n t ) e -(δ u> n t+ 2 <+>n Τβ)