Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 55, Issue 11, Pages 3690-3693Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511435
Keywords
alignment medium; functionalized graphene oxide; liquid crystals; NMR spectroscopy; residual dipolar coupling
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21572164, 81530089, 21132004, 21571143, 81421091]
- Sino-German Center for Research Promotion [GZ1104]
- Max Planck Society
- DFG [FOR 934]
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Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) have attracted attention in light of their great impact on the structural elucidation of organic molecules. However, the effectiveness of RDC measurements is limited by the shortage of alignment media compatible with widely used organic solvents, such as DMSO. Herein, we present the first liquid crystal (LC) based alignment medium that is compatible with pure DMSO, thus enabling RDC measurements of polar and intermediate polarity molecules. The liquid crystals were obtained by grafting polymer brushes onto graphene oxide (GO) using free radical polymerization. The resulting new medium offers several advantages, such as absence of background signals, narrow line shapes, and tunable alignment. Importantly, this medium is compatible with -conjugated molecules. Moreover, sonication-induced fragmentation can reduce the size of GO sheets. The resulting anisotropic medium has moderate alignment strength, which is a prerequisite for an accurate RDC measurement.
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