nLab Malcolm H. Levitt

Malcolm Harris Levitt

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Selected writings

On nuclear magnetic resonance:

• Malcolm H. Levitt: Spin Dynamics: Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2008) [ISBN:978-0-470-51117-6]

On endofullerenes:

• G.R. Bacanu, “Spectroscopy of non-metallic $C_{60}$-endofullerenes,” Chem. Phys. Rev. 6(3), 031307 (2025); doi.org/10.1063/5.0286718

• T. Jafari, A. Shugai, U. Nagel, E.S. Marsden, S. Bloodworth, G. Hoffman, G.R. Bacanu, M.C. Walkey, M.H. Levitt, R.J. Whitby, and T.Rõõm, “Terahertz spectroscopy study of the confining potential for methane in the endofullerene $CH_4$@$C_{60}$,” J. Chem. Phys. 163(8), 084308 (2025); doi.org/10.1063/5.0152628

• V.K. Vyas, G.R. Bacanu, M. Soundararajan, E.S. Marsden, T.Jafari, A. Shugai, M.E. Light, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, M.H. Levitt, and R.J. Whitby, “Squeezing formaldehyde into $C_{60}$ fullerene,” Nat Commun 15(1), 2515(2024); doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46886-5

• M. Soundararajan, G.R. Bacanu, F. Giustiniano, M.C. Walkey,G. Hoffman, M. Carravetta, M.R. Lees, R.J. Whitby, and M.H. Levitt, “Solid-State ${}^3He$ NMR of the Superconducting Rubidium Endofulleride $Rb_3$(${}^3 He$@$C_{60}$),” Appl Magn Reson 54(11), 1177–1192 (2023); doi.org/10.1007/s00723-023-01606-y

• G.R. Bacanu, T. Jafari, M. Aouane, J. Rantaharju, M. Walkey,G. Hoffman, A. Shugai, U. Nagel, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, A.J. Horsewill, S. Rols, T.Rõõm, R.J. Whitby, and M.H. Levitt, “Experimental determination of the interaction potential between a helium atom and the interior surface of a $C_{60}$ fullerene molecule,” J. Chem. Phys. 155(14), 144302 (2021); doi.org/10.1063/5.0066817

• S.S. Zhukov, V. Balos, G. Hoffman, S. Alom, M. Belyanchikov,M. Nebioglu, S. Roh, A. Pronin, G.R. Bacanu, P. Abramov, M. Wolf, M. Dressel, M.H. Levitt, R.J. Whitby, B. Gorshunov, and M. Sajadi, “Rotational coherence of encapsulated ortho and para water in fullerene-$C_{60}$ revealed by time-domain terahertz spectroscopy,” Scientific Reports 10(1), 18329(2020); doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74972-3

• G.R. Bacanu, J. Rantaharju, G. Hoffman, M.C. Walkey, S.Bloodworth, M. Concistrè, R.J. Whitby, and M.H. Levitt, “An Internuclear J-Coupling of ${}^3 He$ Induced by Molecular Confinement,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142(40), 16926–16929 (2020); doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c08586

Review:

• Malcolm H. Levitt: Endofullerenes: Nano-scale test tubes for single molecules and atoms, talk at CQTS (Jan 2026) [slides:pdf]

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