Polarizing Nuclear Spins Via Photo‐Excited Triplet States

In this paper we discuss two methods to achieve high nuclear polarizations at room temperature using pulsed EPR techniques and triplet spins which are optically excited by a laser pulse. The results of our experiments, which are performed on a single crystal of napthalene doped with pentacene, show that an unusually high proton spin polarization can be achieved and that the transfer occurs in a time determined by the dipolar interaction between the electron spins of the pentacene guests and the proton spins on the surrounding napthalene molecules.