From crystalline to glassy gallium fluoride materials: an NMR study of Ga-69 and Ga-71 quadrupolar nuclei

Owing to the implementation of acquisition techniques specific for nuclei w ith very large quadrupolar interaction (full shifted echo acid variable off set cumulative spectra (VOCS)), NMR spectra of Ga-69 and Ga-71 are obtained in crystallised (PbGa5, Pb-3,Ga2F12, Pb9Ga2F24 and CsZnGaF6) and glassy (P bF2-ZnF2-GaF3) gallium fluorides. Simulations of both static (full echo or VOCS) and 15 kHz MAS spectra allow to obtain consistent determinations of i sotropic chemical shifts and very large quadrupolar parameters (nu(Q) up to 14 MHz). In the crystalline compounds whose structures are unknown, the nu mber and the local symmetry of the different gallium sites are tentatively worked out. For the glassy systems, a continuous Czjzek's distribution of t he NMR quadrupolar parameters accounts for the particular shape of the NMR spectrum. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B,V. All rights reserved.