Multinuclear solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance studies (185/187Re, 55Mn, 75As, and 1H NMR) were
undertaken on a series of polycrystalline inorganic salts incorporating diamagnetic XO4
- groups, X being a
half-integer quadrupolar nucleus. Exploiting data acquisition protocols that were recently developed for
observing undistorted half-integer quadrupole central transitions, some of the largest quadrupole coupling
constants reported to date by high field NMR were characterized (e
2
qQ/h ≈ 300 MHz). On repeating such
measurements as a function of temperature, certain samples displayed reversible changes that could not be
rationalized in terms of the usual temperature dependencies of the nuclear quadrupolar couplings. Instead,
dynamic exchange processes between chemically or magnetically inequivalent sites had to be invoked. To
quantitatively analyze these processes, the semiclassical Bloch−McConnell formalism for chemical exchange
was extended to account for second-order quadrupole effects. Insight into the potential nature of the chemical
dynamics was also obtained from quantum chemical calculations of the coupling parameters on model systems.