Recoupled long-range C-H dipolar dephasing in solid-state NMR,and its use for spectral selection of fused aromatic rings

This work introduces a simple new solid-state 13C NMR method for distinguishing various types of aromatic residues, e.g. those of lignin from fused rings of charcoal. It is based on long-range dipolar dephasing, which is achieved by recoupling of long-range C-H dipolar interactions, using two 1H 180 degrees pulses per rotation period. This speeds up dephasing of unprotonated carbon signals approximately threefold compared to standard dipolar dephasing without recoupling and thus provides much more efficient differential dephasing. It also reduces the effects of spinning-speed dependent effective proton-proton dipolar couplings on the heteronuclear dephasing. Signals of unprotonated carbons with two or more protons at a two-bond distance dephase to <3% within less than 0.9 ms, significantly faster than those of aromatic sites separated from the nearest proton by three or more bonds. Differential dephasing among different unprotonated carbons is demonstrated in a substituted anthraquinone and 3-methoxy benzamide. The data yield a calibration curve for converting the dephasing rates into estimated distances from the carbon to the nearest protons. This can be used for peak assignment in heavily substituted or fused aromatic molecules. Compared to lignin, slow dephasing is observed for the aromatic carbons in wood charcoal, and even slower for inorganic carbonate. Direct 13C polarization is used on these structurally complex samples to prevent loss of the signals of interest, which by design originate from carbons that are distant from protons and therefore crosspolarize poorly. In natural organic matter such as humic acids, this combination of recoupled dipolar dephasing and direct polarization at 7-kHz MAS enables selective observation of signals from fused rings that are characteristic of charcoal.     

NMR Studies of Hindered Rotation. The Diels-Alder Adduct of Phencyclone with Maleic Anhydride: Restricted Motion of Bridgehead Phenyls

¹H NMR studies at 300 MHz have been performed for the Diels-Alder adduct of phencyclone and maleic anhydride in CDCl₃ at ambient temperatures. The 1D spectrum shows four equal (2H) intensity doublets in the aryl region (in addition to other absorptions) which is fully consistent with a slow exchange limit (SEL) spectrum of a system in which the unsubstituted bridgehead phenyls exhibit hindered rotation around the C(sp²)-C (sp³) bond on the NMR timescale. These protons are assigned to H-1,8 and H-4,5 of the phenanthrene moiety and to H-2′ and H-6′ of the phenvls based on the two-dimensional (2D) homonuclear chemical shift correlation spectrum (COSY) together with arguments regarding carbonyl and aromatic ring anisotropy. Full proton assignments are given.     

13 C Saturation-Transfer Difference (STD)-NMR Experiments Using INEPT Polarization Transfer

Saturation-transfer difference (STD)-NMR spectroscopy has been widely used to screen potential ligands for binding to large receptor molecules. The STD-NMR experiment is typically based on a proton NMR spectrum, which can suffer from spectral overlap, leading to missing information in STD-based epitope mapping. Two-dimensional STD-NMR experiments can alleviate spectral overlap, but are time consuming. Here, we examine the feasibility of saturating protons in a receptor molecule and observing the STD effect on nearby carbon nuclei after transferring polarization from protons to carbons using the insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer (INEPT) pulse sequence. We show that under favorable conditions, a 1H→13C STD-INEPT experiment can give information similar to that obtained from a two-dimensional heteronuclear experiment, but in significantly less time. The STD-INEPT experiment could be especially useful when studying mixtures of ligands in which the peak positions in the proton and HSQC spectrum change significantly, and in particular, when using high-throughput, automated methods to analyze the data.     

煤直接液化中油煤浆热溶产物的13C NMR研究

研究油煤浆热溶产物的成分及含量的变化是控制煤直接液化工艺的重要因素之一. 本文采用固体核磁共振研究了在高压釜中用不同溶剂在不同温度下（250~370 ℃）得到的神华煤及其热溶产物的一些变化规律. 通过对神华煤及其热溶中间产物与抽余煤的¹³C CP/MAS/TOSS NMR分析可知, 神华煤经热溶处理后, 脱除了一些含氧官能团以及某些脂肪烃结构. 同时, 一些芳香桥碳分子和被取代的芳香碳环发生了断裂, 随着反应温度逐渐升高, 由于不断供氢, 四氢呋喃抽提物的芳香度逐渐降低, 抽提率逐渐增大.      

陕北侏罗纪富镜煤和富惰煤分子结构的FTIR，XPS和13C NMR表征

侏罗纪优质煤炭资源为煤制油、制气等清洁高效利用提供了丰富的物质基础,其显微组分以富集惰质组为特征,而镜质组与惰质组大分子结构在很大程度上决定了煤的物理化学性质和工艺性能,进而决定了煤炭资源的综合利用效率及附加值。采集并制备了陕北侏罗纪煤田小保当煤矿和柠条塔煤矿的原煤(XR)、富镜质组煤(XV、NV)和富惰质组煤(XI、NI)样品,利用傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)、X射线光电子能谱(XPS)、固体13C核磁共振谱(13C NMR)等手段,结合煤质分析结果,定量表征了不同显微组分富集物分子结构的差异。研究结果表明：XI和NI煤中芳烃结构芳环取代程度低,主要以3个相邻、4~5个相邻的氢原子形式存在,苯环上氢原子较少被其他官能团取代,同时其结构中芳烃C═C骨架振动明显,脂肪结构中亚甲基伸缩振动强度较低,并且甲基含量略高于富镜煤,C═O基团相对含量略高,表明富惰煤有较多含氧桥键相连的芳香结构,其结构中脂族链、脂环基团脱落、断裂以及芳烃富集,支链相对较少且长度较短,芳碳率、芳香度、芳环缩合程度及成熟度较高。XV和NV煤中表面结构中碳的赋存形态“C—C,C—H”,“C—O”的相对含量高于富惰煤,反映其结构中应含较多的芳环取代的脂肪族侧链,XI和NI煤表面结构中氧的赋存形态以“C—O”为主,“C═O”和“COO—”明显高于富镜煤。XV和XI煤的芳碳率分别为57.91%和66.02%,脂甲基碳分别为10.02%和7.84%,质子化芳碳为非质子化芳碳的两倍,XV煤的羰基和羧基碳相对含量较高,两者桥碳和周碳之比分别为0.25和0.40,芳香核结构平均缩合环数分别为2.68和3.03,平均尺寸分别为0.448和0.676 nm,XI煤结构中芳香核以萘和蒽为主,支链化度L_γ分别为0.22和0.19,表明XV比XI存在较多脂肪侧链、饱和环结构,生烃(油)潜力大。     

Transfer of hyperpolarization from long T1 storage nuclei to short T1 neighbors using FLOPSY-8

Nuclei with long T1s are optimal targets for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). Therefore, most of the agents used in metabolic imaging and spectroscopy studies are based on carboxylic acid moieties that lack protons, a strong source of dipolar relaxation. Metabolic flux information encoded into spectra of small molecule metabolites in the form of the 13C isotopomer data cannot be accessed using standard 13C hyperpolarization methods because protonated carbons relax too quickly through T1 dipolar relaxation. It is shown here that the longitudinal mixing sequence FLOPSY-8 can be used to transfer polarization from a long T1 storage nucleus to adjacent protonated carbons so that they may be detected with high sensitivity. We demonstrate that FLOPSY-8 allows a direct readout of isotopomer populations in butyrate and glutamate in vitro.     

多肽和蛋白质NMR预饱和实验中饱和转移效应的研究

通过改变预饱和照射时间研究了一些多肽和蛋白质分子在水溶液中的饱和转移效应.定量分析了在照射60s之后大分子中绝大多数酰胺质子仍不受影响的原因.结果表明:具有稳定的三维溶液结构的蛋白质(如溶菌酶)中,活泼氢的信号基本上不受饱和转移影响;对于溶液结构比较稳定的多肽和蛋白质(如胰岛素),只有少部分酰胺质子信号强度受到影响;小分子六肽因为溶液中不存在稳定的构象,饱和转移效应十分显著.因此对于溶液中多肽与蛋白质构象的NMR研究,预饱和仍不失为一种简便而有效的溶剂峰压制技术.     

Elemental quantitation of natural organic matter by CPMAS 13C NMR spectroscopy

Cross-polarized magic-angle-spinning NMR (CPMAS-NMR) techniques are assumed to be only semi-quantitative in the assessment of carbon distribution in humic substances or natural organic matter, due to a number of interferences such as spinning side bands (SSB) in spectra, paramagnetic species in samples, and low or remote protonation of aromatic carbons. Fast rotor spin rates or direct polarization NMR techniques are normally applied to improve quantitative signal detectability. Variable contact time pulse sequences were used here to obtain CPMAS-NMR spectra of organic compounds of known structure and different humic substances. Integration of spectral areas, previously subtracted of SSB, and relative stoichiometric factors were used for mathematical elaboration to calculate the elemental content in samples. These values did not significantly differ from those obtained by direct determination of elemental content with quantitative elemental analysis. Our results showed that the carbon observed CPMAS-NMR provides a quantitative representation of the whole carbon content in humic substances.     

聚合稠环衍生物的13C NMR波谱的结构分析

随着碳纤维的广泛应用,对稠环芳烃化合物的结构研究越来越多地受到人们的重视。采用¹³C NMR定量分析方法,可使我们能够获得石油、煤中各类C、H的分布以及各种类型碳的比例,结合元素定性和定量分析,从而推测石油、煤的芳烃馏分的平均分子碳骨架的大致组成。本文利用前人计算分子平均参数的公式^[2,3]采用三种不同的¹³C NMR脉冲程序,(反转门控去偶,异核J-调制自旋回波,2D-J分解谱),分别定量测定了稠环芳烃上质子与非质子碳之比,结合稠环方烃馏分平均分子参数的计算。从而对它们的微观结构进行了初步的探讨.     

Assignment of the 1H and 13C Spectra of 5-Methylthio-4H-1-(p-R1-phenyl)-3a-(p-R2-phenyl)-3a,4-dihydro (1,2,4) oxadiazolo(4,5-a), 1,5-benzodiazepines using 2D NMR Spectroscopy.

The ¹H NMR spectra of the title benzodiazepines derivatives is highly congested because all the protons are in aromatic enviroment so many proton signals remain overlap even 300 MHz or higher fields. With this in mind, the assignment of the ¹H and ¹³C spectra of these compounds obtained using COSY, NOESY, HMQC and HMBC experiments is reported.     

Assignment of the 1H and 13C Spectra of 5-Methylthio-4H-1-(p-R1-phenyl)-3a-(p-R2-Phenyl)-3a, 4-dihydro (1,2,4) oxadiazolo(4,5-a), 1, 5-benzodiazepines Using 2D NMR Spectroscopy

The ¹H NMR spectra of the title benzodiazepines derivatives is highly congested because all the protons are in aromatic environment so many proton signals remain overlap even 300 MHz or higher fields. With this in mind, the assignment of the ¹H and ¹³C spectra of these compounds obtained using COSY, NOESY, HMQC and HMBC experiments is reported.     

2D-NMR Studies on Bis(Amidinohydrazones). I. A Proton-Carbon Heteronuclear Shift Correlation Study on the Enzyme Inhibitors Methylpropylglyoxal Bis(Amidinohydrazone) and Butylmethylglyoxal Bis(Amidinohydrazone)

The first 2D-NMR study on bis(amidinohydrazones) [‘(guanylhydrazones)’] is reported. Heteronuclear shift correlation (HETCOR) experiments were performed on the enzyme inhibitors methylpropylglyoxal bis(amidinohydrazone) (MPGBG) and butylmethylglyoxal bis(amidinohydrazone) (BMGBG). The results obtained made possible the unambiguous assignment of the previously unassigned resonances of the side-chain carbon atoms of MPGBG. The results indicate that the chemical shifts of the protons of the propyl side chain of MPGBG are positively correlated to the ¹³C chemical shifts of the corresponding carbon atoms. The chemical shifts of the carbon atoms of the propyl side chain decrease as a function of the position of the atom in the side chain, the terminal methyl group having the lowest shift value. These results are in full agreement with previous results on the analogous compound dipropylglyoxal bis(amidinohydra- zone), whose side-chain carbon resonances were assigned using totally different techniques. In the case of BMGBG, however, HETCOR contour plots clearly indicate that there is no correlation between the chemical shifts of the protons of the butyl side chain and the 13C chemical shifts of the corresponding carbons. Because the 200 MHz proton spectrum of BMGBG is not fist-order, only the 1 3 resonance～ of the methyl substituent and the resonances of carbons 1 and 4 (but not those of carbons 2 and 3) of the butyl side chain could be assigned on the basis of the HETCOR study. Yet, the results gave a rough estimate of the previously unknown chemical shifts of the protons bound to butyl carbon atoms 2 and 3.     

煤及其液化产物的~(13)C CP/MAS/TOSS NMR和ESR研究

研究煤及其液化产物的成分和含量的变化是控制煤液化工艺的的重要因素之一.该文章用元素分析,13C CP/MAS/TOSS NMR和ESR的方法分析了不同煤化度的6种原煤,结果表明,不同煤阶的原煤的结构存在较大的差异,原煤的芳香度随着含碳量的增加而变大,芳烃碳原子百分率随芳香度增大而增大,芳香度增大则自由基浓度增大,光谱分裂因子(Landeg值)减小;另外,通过对其中5种原煤及其在CO+H2O气氛下液化得到的产物的ESR分析,推测并验证了原煤在液化阶段中的反应机理,不同煤阶的原煤在反应过程中的变化有所差异,从中可以推测并得到了一些原煤结构方面的信息.     

13C NMR in the Structural Assignment of Fused Furoxans

The chemical shifts and multiplicities of the two bridgehead carbons in the ¹³C NMR spectra of various fused furoxans are snown to provide a general method for assigning structure in these tautomeric systems.     

A spectrometer for EPR,DNP, and multinuclear high-resolution NMR

We describe a magnetic resonance spectrometer capable of EPR, dynamic nuclear polarization, and multinuclear high-resolution NMR. The operating field is 1.4 T, corresponding to Larmor frequencies of 40 GHz and 60 MHz for electrons and protons, respectively. The microwave side of the probe is based on a Fabry-Perot resonator (FPR ), an open structure that enhances power-to-field conversion for efficient saturation of the EPR for dynamic polarization, and further permits in situ detection for EPR. This allows the external field to be set at, rather than scanned for, the optimal DNP position. Moreover, we have found that adjustments necessary for maximizing DNP may be done via optimization of the EPR signal, a feature of particular significance for samples which exhibit NMR signals on the borderline of detectability, i.e., samples for which DNP is of special importance. 'H and '3C polarization enhancements achieved using the FPR are compared with devices used by others, in particular the horn /reflector system used by Wind and co-workers. Direct '3C enhancements large enough to detect 2.5 x 10'6 spins in (fluoranthenyl)2 PF6 after a single one-second polarization period have been obtained, and the first high-field 'Li DNP results are also presented.     

Quantitative two-dimensional HSQC experiment for high magnetic field NMR spectrometers

The finite RF power available on carbon channel in proton–carbon correlation experiments leads to non-uniform cross peak intensity response across carbon chemical shift range. Several classes of broadband pulses are available that alleviate this problem. Adiabatic pulses provide an excellent magnetization inversion over a large bandwidth, and very recently, novel phase-modulated pulses have been proposed that perform 90° and 180° magnetization rotations with good offset tolerance. Here, we present a study how these broadband pulses (adiabatic and phase-modulated) can improve quantitative application of the heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC) experiment on high magnetic field strength NMR spectrometers. Theoretical and experimental examinations of the quantitative, offset-compensated, CPMG-adjusted HSQC (Q-OCCAHSQC) experiment are presented. The proposed experiment offers a formidable improvement to the offset performance; ¹³C offset-dependent standard deviation of the peak intensity was below 6% in range of ±20 kHz. This covers the carbon chemical shift range of 150 ppm, which contains the protonated carbons excluding the aldehydes, for 22.3 T NMR magnets. A demonstration of the quantitative analysis of a fasting blood plasma sample obtained from a healthy volunteer is given.     

选择性1NEPT技术及其在FX—90Q仪器上的应用

本文介绍一种~1H—~(13)C远程极化转移的脉冲序列.在JEOL FX—90QNMR波谱仪上实现了这种技术.对一些典型化合物的测定表明,选择性非灵敏核的远程极化转移增强法(SEL1NEPT)在测定季碳原子和进行谱带归属中,是一个有力的工具.     

Separation of aromatic-carbon 13C NMR signals from di-oxygenated alkyl bands by a chemical-shift-anisotropy filter

Selection of alkyl-carbon and suppression of aromatic-carbon 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals has been achieved by exploiting the symmetry-based, systematic difference in their 13C chemical-shift anisotropies (CSAs). Simple three- or five-pulse CSA-recoupling sequences with "gamma-integral" cleanly suppress the signals of all sp2- and sp-hybridized carbons. The chemical-shift-anisotropy-based dephasing is particularly useful for distinguishing the signals of di-oxygenated alkyl (O-C-O) carbons, found for instance as anomeric carbons in carbohydrates, from bands of aromatic carbons with similar 13C isotropic chemical shifts. The alkyl signals are detected with an efficiency of > 60%, with little differential dephasing. Combined with C-H dipolar dephasing, the CSA filter can identify ketal (unprotonated O-C-O) carbons unambiguously for the first time. Conversely, after short cross polarization and the CSA filter, O-CH-O (acetal) carbon signals are observed selectively. The methods are demonstrated on various model compounds and applied to a humic acid.     

Study of natural diamonds by dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

The results of a study of two types of natural-diamond crystals by dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP)-enhanced high-resolution solid-state ¹³C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are reported. The home-built DNP magic-angle spinning (MAS) ¹³C NMR spectrometer operates at 54 GHz for electrons and 20.2 MHz for carbons. The power of the microwave source was about 30 W and the highest DNP enhancement factor came near to 10³. It was shown that in the MAS spectra the ¹³C NMR linewidths of the I_b-type diamond were broader than those of I_aB3-type diamond. From the hyperfine structure of the DNP enhancement as a function of frequency, four kinds of nitrogen-centred and one kind of carbon-centred free radicals could be identified in the I_b-type diamond. The hyperfine structures of the DNP enhancement curve that originated from the anisotropic hyperfine interaction between electron and nuclei could be partially averaged out by MAS. The ¹³C polarization time of DNP was rather long, i.e. 1500 s, and the spin—lattice relaxation time (without microwave irradiation) was about 300 s, which was somewhat shorter than anticipated. Discussions on these experimental results have been made in this report.