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Lloyd Lumata1, Zoltan Kovacs, Craig Malloy, A Dean Sherry, Matthew Merritt.
Abstract
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) can effectively form a glassy matrix necessary for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) experiments. We tested the effects of (13)C enrichment in DMSO on DNP of [1-(13)C]pyruvate doped with trityl radical OX063Me. We found that the polarization build-up time τ of pyruvate in (13)C-labeled DMSO glassing solution is twice as fast as the unenriched DMSO while the nuclear magnetic resonance enhancement was unchanged. This indicates that (13)C-(13)C spin diffusion is a limiting factor in the kinetics of DNP in this system, but it has a minimal effect on the absolute value of polarization achievable for the target.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21285486 PMCID: PMC3144154 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/5/N01
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Med Biol ISSN: 0031-9155 Impact factor: 3.609