Extending Timescales and Narrowing Linewidths in NMR
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https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2011.652Keywords:
Diffusion, Long-lived coherences, Long-lived states, Nmr, UbiquitinAbstract
Among the different fields of research in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) which are currently investigated in the Laboratory of Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (LRMB), two subjects that are closely related to each other are presented in this article. On the one hand, we show how to populate long-lived states (LLS) that have long lifetimes TLLS which allow one to go beyond the usual limits imposed by the longitudinal relaxation time T1. This makes it possible to extend NMR experiments to longer time-scales. As an application, we demonstrate the extension of the timescale of diffusion measurements by NMR spectroscopy. On the other hand, we review our work on long-lived coherences (LLC), a particular type of coherence between two spin states that oscillates with the frequency of the scalar coupling constant JIS and decays with a time constant TLLC. Again, this time constant TLLC can be much longer than the transverse relaxation time T2. By extending the coherence lifetimes, we can narrow the linewidths to an unprecedented extent. J-couplings and residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) in weakly-oriented phases can be measured with the highest precision.Downloads
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2011-09-30
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T. F. Segawa, M. Rey, P. R. Vasos, S. Ulzega, M. A. Caporini, S. Jannin, D. Carnevale, V. Vitzthum, P. Miéville, N. Salvi, A. Bornet, G. Bodenhausen, Chimia 2011, 65, 652, DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2011.652.