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Justinas Sakas1, Dušan Uhrín1, Ole W Sørensen2
1EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract:
Proton-detected INADEQUATE NMR experiments are widely used for structure elucidation of small molecules, in particular the implementations that display 13C single-quantum rather than double-quantum frequencies in the indirect dimension of 2D spectra. But unfortunately, such spectra in addition to the desired 1H-13C two-bond correlations also contain HSQC artifacts of comparable magnitude. The redesigned versatile experiment presented in this paper requires no compromise based on different 13C multiplicities and suppresses the HSQC artifacts that are a source of possible spectral misinterpretation. Demonstration of the new method is shown by applications to typical small molecules of different complexity.
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