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Spin Saturation Transfer Difference NMR (SSTD NMR): A New Tool to Obtain Kinetic Parameters of Chemical Exchange Processes
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Chemical exchange saturation transfer NMR: An analytical tool and its applications

Lixia Wang1, Jie Cui1, Junfeng Xiang1,2

  • 1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Center for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

Magnetic Resonance Letters
|July 25, 2026
PubMed
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Keywords:
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST)Chemical reactionConformation transformationDetectionDynamic kinetics

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