Compensation of refocusing inefficiency with synchronized inversion sweep (CRISIS) in multiplicity-edited HSQC

Use of adiabatic pulses in broadband inversion and decoupling is well known. Replacement of the rectangular pi pulses in the INEPT and rev-INEPT parts of the HSQC and gHSQC experiments with adiabatic pulses substantially improves the sensitivity of these experiments. However, modulation of cross peak intensity in multiplicity-edited HSQC or gHSQC experiments can be quite severe. These modulations arise during the multiplicity-editing periods due to the inefficient refocusing of the spin-echo caused by the mismatch of the echo delay with the one-bond coupling constant. These modulations (which we call echo modulations) are field strength (and hence spectral width) independent. Use of adiabatic pulses with the inversion sweep synchronized to the H-1-C-13 coupling constant range typically observed in a C-13 spectrum will provide substantial improvement in sensitivity. The inversion profile problems associated with rectangular pi pulses can be moderately compensated by composite pulse schemes and these schemes could prove to be reasonable alternatives to adiabatic pulses. However, the adiabatic sweep provides a unique method to compensate the echo modulations for multiplicity-edited experiments. The origin and the compensation of refocusing inefficiency with synchronized inversion sweep (CRISIS) method to minimize these modulations is described. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.