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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 105-109Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nphys211
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- Division Of Physics [1004321] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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High-resolution NMR spectroscopy is a powerful tool for non-destructive structural investigations of matter(1). EM Typically, expensive and immobile superconducting magnets are required for chemical analysis by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. Here we present the feasibility of liquid-state proton (H-1), lithium (Li-7) and fluorine (F-19) ultrahigh-resolution NMR spectroscopy' in the Earth's magnetic field. We show that in the Earth's field the transverse relaxation time T, of the Li-7 nucleus is very sensitive to its mobility in solution. The J-coupling constants(3) of silicon-containing (Si-29) and fluorine-containing molecules are measured with just a single scan. The accuracy of the measured H-1-Si-29 and H-1-F-19 J-coupling constants is between a few millihertz up to 20 mHz. This is at least one order of magnitude better than the precision obtained with superconducting magnets. The high precision allows the discrimination of similar chemical structures of small molecules as well as of macromolecules.
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