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Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Instrumentation for Real-time Enzymatic Reaction Rate Measurements by NMR
Published on: February 23, 2016
Dynamic nuclear polarization NMR spectroscopy allows high-throughput characterization of microporous organic polymers
Frédéric Blanc1, Samantha Y Chong, Tom O McDonald
1Department of Chemistry, §Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, and ‡Center for Materials Discovery, University of Liverpool , Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) solid-state NMR was used to obtain natural abundance (13)C and (15)N CP MAS NMR spectra of microporous organic polymers with excellent signal-to-noise ratio, allowing for unprecedented details in the molecular structure to be determined for these complex polymer networks. Sensitivity enhancements larger than 10 were obtained with bis-nitroxide radical at 14.1 T and low temperature (∼105 K). This DNP MAS NMR approach allows efficient, high-throughput characterization of libraries of porous polymers prepared by combinatorial chemistry methods.
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