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Forcing the "lazy" protons to work

Nghia Tuan Duong
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Yarava, Jayasubba Reddy  
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Trebosc, Julien
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October 28, 2018
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The combination of cross-polarization (CP) with flip-back (FB) pulse has enabled in NMR the enhancement of C-13 sensitivity and the decrease of the recycling delay at both moderate and fast magic-angle spinning (MAS) frequencies. However, only continuous-wave (CW) decoupling is presently compatible with FB-pulse (FB-CW), and depending on the CW radio-frequency (rf) field, either an insignificant sensitivity gain or an acquisition time-dependent gain and a low C-13 resolution are obtained. In this study, we propose a new FB-pulse method in which radio frequency-driven recoupling (RFDR) is used as the H-1-C-13 decoupling scheme to overcome these drawbacks. The performances of FB-RFDR in terms of decoupling efficiency and sensitivity gain are tested on both natural abundance (NA) and uniformly C-13-N-15 labeled l-histidineHClH(2)O (Hist) samples at a MAS frequency of (R) = 70 kHz. The results show the superiority of RFDR over the CW decoupling with respect to these criteria. Importantly, they reveal that the sensitivity gain offered by FB-RFDR is nearly independent of the decoupling/acquisition duration. The application of FB-RFDR on NA-Hist and sucrose yields a sensitivity gain between 60 and 100% compared to conventional FB-CW and CPMAS-SPINAL experiments. Moreover, we compare the C-13 sensitivities of NA-Hist obtained by our 1D FB-RFDR method and 2D H-1-{C-13} double-CP acquisition. Both methods provide similar C-13 sensitivity and are complementary. Indeed, the 2D method has the advantage of also providing the H-1-C-13 spatial proximities, but its sensitivity for quaternary carbons is limited; whereas our 1D FB-RFDR method is more independent of the type of carbon, and can provide a C-13 1D spectrum in a shorter experimental time. We also test the feasibility of FB-RFDR at a moderate frequency of (R) = 20 kHz, but the experimental results demonstrate a poor resolution as well as a negligible sensitivity gain.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/c8cp03601b
Web of Science ID

WOS:000448345800030

Author(s)
Nghia Tuan Duong
Yarava, Jayasubba Reddy  
Trebosc, Julien
Nishiyama, Yusuke
Amoureux, Jean-Paul
Date Issued

2018-10-28

Publisher

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY

Published in
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume

20

Issue

40

Start page

25829

End page

25840

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical

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Chemistry

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Physics

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solid-state nmr

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angle-spinning nmr

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nuclear-magnetic-resonance

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contact cross-polarization

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adiabatic frequency sweep

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ultra-fast mas

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magic-angle

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rotating solids

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sensitivity enhancement

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flip-back

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REVIEWED

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December 13, 2018
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