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G N Manjunatha Reddy1, Stefano Caldarelli
1Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III) Equipe Chimiométrie et Spectroscopie, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille ISM2-UMR-CNRS-6263. Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Service 512 13397 Marseille Cedex 20 France.
Abstract:
We introduce an NMR method to help in the analysis of complex mixtures. The spectra of molecular fragments are obtained as the traces of a correlation spectrum of the regular (1)H NMR spectrum on one dimension with the one of the highest possible (1)H multiple-quantum (MaxQ) order. As this latter is a function of the number of distinguishable protons in a given molecular fragment, the analysis of a series of multiple-quantum spectra is required to achieve a complete assignment. This MaxQ NMR approach is likely to perform best in the case of signals concentrated in a very narrow frequency range, which is a challenging situation commonly encountered in many relevant analytical problems such as the characterization of extraction fractions (oil, plants, tissues), biological fluids, or environmentally relevant samples. As a demonstration, we apply the MaxQ NMR analysis to a mixture of 11 poly- and monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
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