Isotropic NMR spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei using satellite transitions and magic-angle spinning
Isotropic NMR spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei using satellite transitions and magic-angle spinning
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DOI:
10.1021/ja9939791
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发表时间:
2000-04-05
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15
通讯作者:
Gan, ZH
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作者:
Gan, ZH
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has become an important tool for structural characterization of many important materials such as minerals, ceramics, glasses, semiconductors, and catalysts which contain elements such as 11B, 17O, 23Na, 27Al, 71Ga, and 87Rb. 1 NMR spectra of nuclei with spin S> 1/2 are dominated by the nuclear quadrupolar spin interaction. For half-integer quadrupolar nuclei, relatively narrow spectral lines can be obtained by limiting observation only to the central 1/2 T- 1/2 NMR transition for which the first-order quadrupolar effect vanishes. The second-order quadrupolar effect contains high-rank anisotropic terms which are not completely averaged by magic-angle sample spinning (MAS). 2 Although high magnetic fields can reduce the second-order effect, a complete removal of line broadening requires double rotation (DOR) 3 or dynamic angle spinning (DAS) 4 to achieve isotropic spectra. Recently, Frydman and Harwood have introduced an elegant method which utilizes multiple-quantum transitions. 5 The multiple-quantum magic-angle spinning (MQMAS) method requires only conventional MAS to obtain isotropic spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei. The sensitivity and the quantitative features of MQMAS largely depend on the efficiency of multiple-quantum excitation and the quest for high efficiency drives an ongoing effort for pulse sequence optimization. 6 In this contribution, a different approach based on satellite transitions is proposed. The satellite transitions in the spin manifold of quadrupolar nuclei can be efficiently excited using short radio frequency pulses and directly observed under MAS. 7 Therefore, as will be shown here the satellite transition MAS method generates isotropic spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei with high efficiencies. At high magnetic fields, the first-and second-order quadrupolar effects to spin states-S e mS e S can be expanded in terms of spherical harmonics where ωQ) e2qQ/2S (2S-1) p and ωL is the Lamor frequency, a2, m (1) and al, m (2) depend only on the asymmetry factor of the electrical field gradient (EFG) tensor, and (θ, φ) are the polar angles of the magnetic field in the principal axis frame of the EFG tensor. The first-order terms ES, mS Q (1) have no effect on the 1/2