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The35Cl nuclear quadrupole resonance spin echo nutation spectroscopy method was used to determine asymmetry parameters,η, of the electric field gradient tensor in cyanuric chloride, 1,3,5-trichloro-cyanuric acid and 1,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin. For comparison of advantages and drawbacks of some data processing methods we have tried integral transforms of nutation interferogram (pseudo-FID) data (Hankel and Hartley transforms) alternative to the Fourier transform. Another processing method, which provides a power spectrum estimated from time-domain data, is the maximum entropy method (MEM), and we applied the Burg algorithm version of it. We found that MEM gives the best enhancement of the nutation spectrum resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio, provided the number of autocorrelation coefficients is chosen for optimum performance of the Burg algorithm, otherwise estimated singularities in the nutation spectrum can be obscured by multiple spurious peaks or the spectrum resolution is low. In the Hankel transform with the first-order Bessel functions the improvement in resolution is achieved at the expense of the overall signal-to-noise ratio and for noisy experimental data this transform did not show reliable results. The Hartley transform gives a resolution better than the Fourier transform but worse than the two other methods. Unlike the Hankel transform after the Hartley transform the signal-to-noise ratio is not degraded. Theη parameter determined by MEM for cyanuric chloride was 18%, which is close to previously reported values. For 1,3,5-trichloro-cyanuric acidη = 20% and for the two chlorine sites in 1,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoinη = 0 and 12% respectively. These values are in substantial agreement with the anticipated double bond character of N-Cl bonds in the two last compounds.
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Ostafin, M., Lemański, D. & Nogaj, B. Comparison of some resolution enhancement methods applied to35Cl-NQR nutation spectroscopy. Appl. Magn. Reson. 18, 137–146 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03162105
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