| Literature DB >> 23205273 |
Lloyd Lumata1, Matthew Merritt, Chalermchai Khemtong, S James Ratnakar, Johan van Tol, Lu Yu, Likai Song, Zoltan Kovacs.
Abstract
The free radical 2,2-diphenyl-1-pycrylhydrazyl (DPPH) was tested as a polarising agent for fast dissolution dynamic nuclear polarisation (DNP) NMR spectroscopy. DPPH was found to be reasonably soluble in sulfolane and the optimum concentration for DNP is 20-40 mM depending upon whether short polarisation times or the maximum signal intensity is needed. W-band ESR measurements revealed that the ESR linewidth D of DPPH is intermediate between that of BDPA and 4-oxo-TEMPO. Several thousand-fold NMR signal enhancements in the liquid-state were achieved for (13)C, (15)N, (89)Y, and (109)Ag compounds, demonstrating that DPPH can be added to the list of polarising agents for DNP-NMR spectroscopy. Furthermore, the hydrophobic DPPH free radical can be easily filtered out from the dissolution liquid when water is used as the dissolution solvent.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 23205273 PMCID: PMC3507463 DOI: 10.1039/C2RA21853D
Source DB: PubMed Journal: RSC Adv ISSN: 2046-2069 Impact factor: 3.361