Adiabatic fast passage application in solid state NMR study of cross relaxation and molecular dynamics in heteronuclear systems

M Baranowski; A Woźniak-Braszak; K Jurga

doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2015.11.009

Adiabatic fast passage application in solid state NMR study of cross relaxation and molecular dynamics in heteronuclear systems

J Magn Reson. 2016 Jan:262:27-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.11.009. Epub 2015 Dec 11.

Authors

M Baranowski¹, A Woźniak-Braszak², K Jurga²

Affiliations

¹ High Pressure Physics Division, Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland. Electronic address: mikbar@amu.edu.pl.
² High Pressure Physics Division, Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland.

PMID: 26705906
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2015.11.009

Abstract

The paper presents the benefits of using fast adiabatic passage for the study of molecular dynamics in the solid state heteronuclear systems in the laboratory frame. A homemade pulse spectrometer operating at the frequency of 30.2MHz and 28.411MHz for protons and fluorines, respectively, has been enhanced with microcontroller direct digital synthesizer DDS controller [1-4]. This work briefly describes how to construct a low-cost and easy-to-assemble adiabatic extension set for homemade and commercial spectrometers based on recently very popular Arduino shields. The described set was designed for fast adiabatic generation. Timing and synchronization problems are discussed. The cross-relaxation experiments with different initial states of the two spin systems have been performed. Contrary to our previous work [5] where the steady-state NOE experiments were conducted now proton spins (1)H are polarized in the magnetic field B0 while fluorine spins (19)F are perturbed by selective saturation for a short time and then the system is allowed to evolve for a period in the absence of a saturating field. The adiabatic passage application leads to a reversal of magnetization of fluorine spins and increases the amplitude of the signal.

Keywords: Adiabatic fast passage; Cross-relaxation; DDS; Heteronuclear interactions; Low cost NMR; Solid-state NMR.