Magnetization density in frans-tetraaniniinedinitronickel(ii)

Abstract

The polarized neutron diffraction data for deuterated trans-Ni(NH3)4(NO2)2 have been reanalysed using an improved method for accounting for the oribital component in the scattering of the polarized neutrons. In this case, where the applied magnetic field was not along a principal crystal or molecular magnetic susceptibility direction, there seemed to be a possibility that the usual ‘dipole approximation’ correction might not have been fully adequate within the accuracy of the data. However, because of the smallness of the orbital contribution to the angular momentum associated with the Ni2+ ion in the compound, the effects of the ‘full correction’ do not lead to a significantly different valence orbital population analysis of the spin density than does the dipole approximation. Show more