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Temperature-dependent rate coefficients for para\u2013ortho H2 conversion in gas-phase collisions with O2, NO, and NO2 were measured in 1933 in a beautiful series of experiments by Farkas and Sachsse [Z. Phys. Chem. B 23, 1\u201318 (1933)]. A complete and quantitative theoretical study of the conversion rate coefficients in collisions with O2 was published recently [X. Zhang et\u00a0al., Nat. Sci. 1, e10002 (2021)]. The present paper describes a similar, although more difficult, study of para\u2013ortho H2 conversion in collisions with NO. Not only does it yield conversion rate coefficients in good agreement with the experimental data, but it also explains the surprising finding that collisions with NO are substantially more effective in converting para-H2 into ortho-H2 than collisions with O2. It shows, moreover, that the effectivity of NO is caused by a completely unexpected mechanism: coupling with the transient magnetic dipole of NO generated by the transition of its excited spin\u2013orbit state to the ground state in collisions in which para-H2 near-resonantly converts into ortho-H2.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1063\/5.0345867","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,5]],"date-time":"2026-08-05T15:35:47Z","timestamp":1785944147000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1063\/aip-crossmark-policy-page","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Para\u2013ortho H2 conversion in collisions with NO: A surprising mechanism"],"prefix":"10.1063","volume":"165","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1856-240X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ad","family":"van der Avoird","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Heyendaalseweg 135 , 6525 AJ Nijmegen,","place":["The Netherlands"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0920-3707","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gerrit C.","family":"Groenenboom","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Theoretical Chemistry Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Heyendaalseweg 135 , 6525 AJ Nijmegen,","place":["The Netherlands"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"317","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026080511354317500_c1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"239","DOI":"10.1007\/bf01391241","volume":"41","year":"1927","journal-title":"Z. 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