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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
Crystal engineering enables room-temperature triplet-DNP in cocrystals
Haruki Sato1, Makoto Negoro2,3,4, Akinori Kagawa2,3
1Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan.
Abstract:
We demonstrate the crystal engineering of cocrystalline polarization matrices for triplet-dynamic nuclear polarization at room temperature. Cocrystals were designed using nicotinamide as a hydrogen bonding coformer to enable the triplet-DNP of aliphatic dicarboxylic acids. The rigid molecular frameworks formed through controlled hydrogen-bonding and π-π interactions maintain sufficiently long T1 values for spin diffusion, leading to room-temperature triplet-DNP. This crystal engineering expands the range of molecules that can be polarized using triplet-DNP. These findings establish crystal engineering as a promising strategy for developing polarization materials and advancing the applications of room-temperature hyperpolarization in NMR and MRI.
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