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Atomic Scale Structural Studies of Macromolecular Assemblies by Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Published on: September 17, 2017
Homo- and heteronuclear two-dimensional covariance solid-state NMR spectroscopy with a dual-receiver system
Kazuyuki Takeda1, Yasushi Kusakabe, Yasuto Noda
1Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, 606-8502 Kyoto, Japan. takezo@kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Two-dimensional (2D) covariance NMR spectroscopy, which has originally been established to extract homonuclear correlations (HOMCOR), is extended to include heteronuclear correlations (HETCOR). In a (13)C/(15)N 2D chemical shift correlation experiment, (13)C and (15)N signals of a polycrystalline sample of (13)C, (15)N-labeled amino acid are acquired simultaneously using a dual-receiver NMR system. The data sets are rearranged for the covariance data processing, and the (13)C-(15)N heteronuclear correlations are obtained together with the (13)C-(13)C and (15)N-(15)N homonuclear correlations. The present approach retains the favorable feature of the original covariance HOMCOR that the spectral resolution along the indirect dimension is given by that of the detection dimension. As a result, much fewer amounts of data are required to obtain a well-resolved 2D spectrum compared to the case of the conventional 2D Fourier-Transformation (FT) scheme. Hence, one can significantly save the experimental time, or enhance the sensitivity by increasing the number of signal averaging within a given measurement time.
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