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Probing crystal packing of uniformly (13)C-enriched powder samples using homonuclear dipolar coupling measurements
Giulia Mollica1, Myriam Dekhil1, Fabio Ziarelli2
1Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ICR UMR 7273, 13397 Marseille, France.
Abstract:
The relationship between the crystal packing of powder samples and long-range (13)C-(13)C homonuclear dipolar couplings is presented and illustrated for the case of uniformly (13)C-enriched L-alanine and L-histidine·HCl·H2O. Dipolar coupling measurement is based on the partial reintroduction of dipolar interactions by spinning the sample slightly off-magic-angle, while the coupling of interest for a given spin pair is isolated with a frequency-selective pulse. A cost function is used to correlate the so-derived dipolar couplings to trial crystal structures of the samples under study. This procedure allowed for the investigation of the l-alanine space group and L-histidine·HCl·H2O space group and unit-cell parameters.
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