C. Marichal et al., V-51 MAGIC-ANGLE-SPINNING NMR AND ELECTRIC-FIELD GRADIENT CALCULATIONS IN V2O5 AND GAMMA-LIV2O5 CRYSTALS, Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance, 8(1), 1997, pp. 33-46
V-51 Magic-angle-spinning (MAS) NMR has been applied to V2O5 at two di
fferent magnetic field strengths (4.7 and 7.1 T), Both the magnitude a
nd relative orientation of the quadrupole and chemical shift (CS) tens
ors have been determined by iterative fitting of the V-51 MAS NMR line
shapes at the two magnetic field strengths, The reliability of the res
ults is discussed, Moreover, it is shown that previous low-field singl
e-crystal data are fully consistent with the high-field powder-sample
MAS NMR results provided that a slight noncoincidence between the CS t
ensor and the crystal frame axes is considered. The electric field gra
dient tensor at the vanadium and lithium sites is subsequently used to
test several electronic structure calculation at an ab initio Hartree
-Fock level in V2O5 and gamma-LiV2O5 crystals. It is shown that a wide
distribution of oxygen charges must be considered to describe the par
ticular environment of each type of oxygen atoms, Furthermore, this an
alysis supports the fact that the vanadyl bond is likely a short ionic
bond. NMR is found to be a valuable experimental tool to get insight
into the nature of chemical bonds in vanadium oxides, (C) 1997 Elsevie
r Science B,V.