A multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance study of t-butylthiol
Deuterium nmr lineshapes for polycrystalline samples of (CD3)3CSH and (CH3)3CSD have been investigated between 110 and 200 K. Unlike t-butylchloride-d9 which undergoes line narrowing in three distinctive stages, t-butylthiol-d9 undergoes almost complete motional line narrowing at 120 ± 5 K. Above the solid II ↔ solid I phase transition no quadrupolar splitting is observed, consistent with rapid "isotropic" reorientation in the solid I phase.An analysis of the 2H and 13C spin–lattice relaxation times of (CD3)3CSH, (CH3)3CSD and unlabelled t-butylthiol in both liquid and solid phases is also reported. The rotational correlation time is observed to decrease by an order of magnitude at the solid II ↔ solid I transition and to increase slightly at the melting point. Deuterium T1s in solids III and IV of the labelled species indicate abrupt changes at the phase transitions and motion slower than ω0−1 in solid IV.