Journal
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE
Volume 286, Issue -, Pages 158-162Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.12.009
Keywords
Methyl groups; Cross-relaxation; Quantum rotor polarization; Dissolution; Nuclear Overhauser effect; NOE
Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC-UK) [EP/N002482, EP/L505067/1]
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Wolfson Foundation
- Bruker (UK)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/P009980/1, EP/K00509X/1, EP/N002482/1, EP/P030491/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/P009980/1, EP/K00509X/1, EP/P030491/1, EP/N002482/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In cryogenic dissolution NMR experiments, a substance of interest is allowed to rest in a strong magnetic field at cryogenic temperature, before dissolving the substance in a warm solvent, transferring it to a high-resolution NMR spectrometer, and observing the solution-state NMR spectrum. In some cases, negative enhancements of the C-13 NMR signals are observed, which have been attributed to quantum-rotor induced polarization. We show that in the case of acetone (propan-2-one) the negative signal enhancements of the methyl C-13 sites may be understood by invoking conventional cross-relaxation within the methyl groups. The H-1 nuclei acquire a relative large net polarization through thermal equilibration in a magnetic field at low temperature, facilitated by the methyl rotation which acts as a relaxation sink; after dissolution, the H-1 magnetization slowly returns to thermal equilibrium at high temperature, in part by cross-relaxation processes, which induce a transient negative polarization of nearby C-13 nuclei. We provide evidence for this mechanism experimentally and theoretically by saturating the H-1 magnetization using a radiofrequency field pulse sequence before dissolution and comparing the C-13 magnetization evolution after dissolution with the results obtained from a conventional H-1-C-13 cross relaxation model of the CH3 moieties in acetone. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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