Dibromonitroso benzene sulphonate spin-adducts — Why no hyperfine coupling to bromine?

Both 79Br and 81Br nuclei have very large magnetic moments and hence can give rise to large hyperfine splittings. However, for the title compound, dibromonitroso-p-benzene sulphonate (DBNBS), which is a widely used spin-trap, liquid-phase spectra of radical adducts are characterised by narrow EPR features with no bromine splitting, despite the expected delocalisation of spin-density onto bromine. I find that for such radicals in the solid-state the 14N parallel features are very broad, although the seven expected hyperfine features from the 79Br and 81Br nuclei were not clearly defined. I use these results to offer an explanation for the complete absence of any hyperfine splitting from bromine in the isotropic spectra.