J. Lizion , A. Piarristeguy , R. Laskowski , P. Blaha , R. Escalier , M. Ménétrier , A. Pradel , G. Silly
{"title":"125Te NMR for structural investigations in phase change materials: Optimization of experimental conditions coupled to NMR shift prediction","authors":"J. Lizion , A. Piarristeguy , R. Laskowski , P. Blaha , R. Escalier , M. Ménétrier , A. Pradel , G. Silly","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101751","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101751","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Phase Change Materials as those of the Ge-Sb-Te </span>ternary system are of great interest for technological applications. Properties of these compounds are strongly related to presence of vacancies and structural investigations remain challenging. In this paper we evidence that </span><sup>125</sup><span>Te NMR in natural abundance and using commercial systems at intermediate field (14.1 T) together with NMR parameters prediction can contribute to improve understanding of electronic structure of such systems. GeTe is a typical phase change material, whose structure contains germanium vacancies, even in its stoichiometric form, giving it metallic properties. Here, we use nominal Ge</span><sub>50</sub>Te<sub>50</sub> and Ge<sub>48</sub>Te<sub>52</sub><span> crystalline samples as an example to optimize the WURST-CPMG technique, a powerful technique to record wide NMR spectra which has not yet been used on </span><sup>125</sup>Te. The goal was to minimize the time devoted to experiments as well as maximize the signal-to-noise ratio in order to detect small intensity signals directly linked to vacancies. Virtual Crystal Approximation (VCA) calculations performed with WIEN2K helped to interpret the NMR spectra. For Te-based crystalline conducting samples the best experimental results were obtained using 3.2 mm thin wall rotors with diluted samples 40 vol% GeTe-60 vol% SiO<sub>2</sub><span>. In addition to the WURST-CPMG technique, high resolution spectra using MAS<span> as implemented in the pj-MAT technique allowed us to identify the distributions of chemical shift parameters in the high intensity contribution of the 1D spectra. The NMR spectra recorded on the samples showed that an addition of Tellurium in the stoichiometric Ge</span></span><sub>50</sub>Te<sub>50</sub> sample leads to an important broadening of the spectrum together with a shift of the lines. According to VCA calculations it could be attributed to a distribution of concentrations of germanium vacancies in the sample and it would appear that Knight Shift but also Chemical Shift could contribute in similar proportion to the NMR line position when metavalent bonding is invoked.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 101751"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39280602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accurate fragment-based 51-V chemical shift predictions in molecular crystals","authors":"Amanda Mathews, Joshua D. Hartman","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy plays a crucial role in determining molecular structure for complex biological and pharmaceutical compounds. NMR investigations are increasingly reliant on computation for mapping spectral features to chemical structures. Here we benchmark the accuracy of fragment-based </span><sup>51</sup><span>V chemical shielding tensor calculations using a training set comprised of 10 biologically and pharmaceutically relevant oxovanadium complexes. Using our self-consistent reproduction of the Madelung potential (SCRMP) electrostatic embedding model, we demonstrate comparable performance between fragment methods and computationally demanding cluster-based techniques. Specifically, fragment methods employing hybrid density functionals are capable of reproducing the experimental </span><sup>51</sup>V isotropic chemical shifts with a training set rms error of <span><math><mrow><mo>~</mo></mrow></math></span><span>9 ppm, representing a 20% improvement over traditional plane wave techniques. We provide training set-derived linear regression models for mapping the absolute shieldings obtained from computation to the experimentally determined chemical shifts using four common density functionals; PBE0, B3LYP, PBE, and BLYP. Finally, we establish the utility of fragment methods and the reported regression parameters examining four oxovanadium structures excluded from the training set including the tetracoordinate oxovanadium silicate </span><span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mrow><mi>P</mi><msub><mi>h</mi><mn>3</mn></msub><mi>S</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>O</mi></mrow><mo>)</mo></mrow><mn>3</mn></msub><mi>V</mi><mi>O</mi></mrow></math></span>, VO<sup>15</sup>NGlySalbz which contains redox-active ligands, and the solid-state form of the common <sup>51</sup>V NMR reference compound <span><math><mrow><mi>V</mi><mi>O</mi><mi>C</mi><msub><mi>l</mi><mn>3</mn></msub></mrow></math></span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 101733"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38989309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Takeshi Kobayashi , Frédéric A. Perras , Yusuke Nishiyama
{"title":"Determination of the chemical shift tensor anisotropy and asymmetry of strongly dipolar coupled protons under fast MAS","authors":"Takeshi Kobayashi , Frédéric A. Perras , Yusuke Nishiyama","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101743","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101743","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>Orientationally-dependent interactions such as dipolar coupling, quadrupolar coupling, and </span>chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) contain a wealth of spatial information that can be used to elucidate </span>molecular conformations and dynamics. To determine the sign of the chemical shift tensor anisotropy parameter (</span><em>δ</em><sub>aniso</sub>), both the |<em>m</em>| = 1 and |<em>m</em>| = 2 components of the CSA need to be symmetry allowed, while the recoupling of the |<em>m</em>| = 1 term is accompanied with the reintroduction of homonuclear dipolar coupling components. Therefore, previously suggested sequences which solely recouple the |<em>m</em>| = 2 term cannot determine the sign a <sup>1</sup>H's <em>δ</em><sub>aniso</sub> in a densely-coupled network. In this study, we demonstrate the CSA recoupling of strongly dipolar coupled <sup>1</sup>H spins using the <span><math><mrow><mi>C</mi><msubsup><mi>n</mi><mi>n</mi><mn>1</mn></msubsup><mrow><mo>(</mo><mrow><msub><mn>90</mn><mn>0</mn></msub><msub><mn>360</mn><mn>180</mn></msub><msub><mn>540</mn><mn>0</mn></msub><msub><mn>360</mn><mn>180</mn></msub><msub><mn>90</mn><mn>0</mn></msub></mrow><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> sequence. This pulse scheme recouples both the |<em>m</em>| = 1 and |<em>m</em>| = 2 CSA terms but the scaling factors for the homonuclear dipolar coupling terms are zeroed. Consequently, the sequence is sensitive to the sign of <em>δ</em><sub>aniso</sub><span> but is not influenced by homonuclear dipolar interactions.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 101743"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101743","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39253050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient symmetry-based γ-encoded DQ recoupling sequences for suppression of t1-noise in solid-state NMR spectroscopy at fast MAS","authors":"Yusuke Nishiyama , Vipin Agarwal , Rongchun Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Solid-state NMR spectroscopy has played a significant role in elucidating the structure and dynamics of materials and biological solids at a molecular level for decades. In particular, the </span><sup>1</sup>H double-quantum/single-quantum (DQ/SQ) chemical shift correlation experiment is widely used for probing the proximity of protons, rendering it a powerful tool for elucidating the hydrogen-bonding interactions and molecular packing of various complex molecular systems. Two factors, namely, the DQ filtering efficiency and <em>t</em><sub>1</sub>-noise, dictate the quality of the 2D <sup>1</sup>H DQ/SQ spectra. Experimentally different recoupling sequences show varied DQ filtering efficiencies and <em>t</em><sub>1</sub>-noise. Herein, after a systematic search of symmetry-based DQ recoupling sequences, we report that the symmetry-based γ-encoded <span><math><mrow><mi>R</mi><msubsup><mi>N</mi><mi>n</mi><mi>ν</mi></msubsup></mrow></math></span> sequences show superior performance to other DQ recoupling sequences, which not only have a higher DQ recoupling efficiency but can also significantly reduce <em>t</em><sub>1</sub>-noise. The origin of <em>t</em><sub>1</sub>-noise is further discussed in detail via extensive numerical simulations. We envisage that such γ-encoded <span><math><mrow><mi>R</mi><msubsup><mi>N</mi><mi>n</mi><mi>ν</mi></msubsup></mrow></math></span> sequences are superior candidates for DQ recoupling in proton-based solid-state NMR spectroscopy due to its capability of efficiently exciting DQ coherences and suppressing <em>t</em><sub>1</sub>-noise.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 101734"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101734","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72249281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Magali Gauthier, Minh Hoang Nguyen , Lucie Blondeau, Eddy Foy, Alan Wong
{"title":"Operando NMR characterization of a metal-air battery using a double-compartment cell design","authors":"Magali Gauthier, Minh Hoang Nguyen , Lucie Blondeau, Eddy Foy, Alan Wong","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101731","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Applying <em>operando</em><span><span> investigations is becoming essential for acquiring fundamental insights into the reaction mechanisms and phenomena at stake in batteries currently under development. The capability of a real-time characterization of the charge/discharge electrochemical pathways and the reactivity of the electrolyte is critical to decipher the underlying </span>chemistries and improve the battery performance. Yet, adapting </span><em>operando</em> techniques for new chemistries such as metal-oxygen (<em>i.e.</em> metal-air) batteries introduces challenges in the cell design due notably to the requirements of an oxygen gas supply at the cathode. Herein a simple <em>operando</em><span> cell is presented with a two-compartment cylindrical cell design for NMR spectroscopy. The design is discussed and evaluated. </span><em>Operando</em> <sup>7</sup>Li static NMR characterization on a Li–O<sub>2</sub> battery was performed as a proof-of-concept. The productions of Li<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub><span>, mossy Li/Li dendrites and other irreversible parasitic lithium compounds were captured in the charge/discharge processes, demonstrating the capability of tracking the evolution of the anodic and cathodic chemistry in metal-oxygen batteries.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101731"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101731","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25564712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eugeny Kryukov, Miroslaw Owczarkowski, David Phillipps, Angel Joaquin Perez Linde, Stephen Burgess, Jeremy Good
{"title":"A new method to measure the temporal magnetic field instabilities in cryogen-free magnets for magnetic resonance","authors":"Eugeny Kryukov, Miroslaw Owczarkowski, David Phillipps, Angel Joaquin Perez Linde, Stephen Burgess, Jeremy Good","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101732","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite the obvious advantages of cryogen-free magnets for NMR such as independence of liquid helium supply and the possibility to use the same magnet at different fields, the practical application of those magnets remains limited because of temporal magnetic field distortions associated with cryogen-free cold head operation. A new experimental method for the simple and reliable detection of the temporal field distortions is described in this paper. The accuracy of the magnetic field measurements by this method is two orders of magnitude higher than by conventional MetroLab Tesla meter. This has enabled us to make improvements in the design of cryogen-free magnets by reducing the amplitude of such field distortions down to sub ppb level. This then results in cryogen-free magnets that are suitable for MRI and MAS NMR applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101732"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101732","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38892003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rubin Dasgupta, Karthick B.S.S. Gupta, Derek Elam , Marcellus Ubbink, Huub J.M. de Groot
{"title":"Dipolar dephasing for structure determination in a paramagnetic environment","authors":"Rubin Dasgupta, Karthick B.S.S. Gupta, Derek Elam , Marcellus Ubbink, Huub J.M. de Groot","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We demonstrate the efficacy of the REDOR-type sequences in determining dipolar coupling strength in a paramagnetic environment. Utilizing paramagnetic effects of enhanced relaxation rates and rapid electronic fluctuations in Cu(II)-(DL-Ala)<sub>2</sub>.H<sub>2</sub>O, the dipolar coupling for the methyl C–H that is 4.20 Å (methyl carbon) away from the Cu<sup>2+</sup> ion, was estimated to be 8.8 ± 0.6 kHz. This coupling is scaled by a factor of ~0.3 in comparison to the rigid limit value of ~32 kHz, in line with partial averaging of the dipolar interaction by rotational motion of the methyl group. Limited variation in the scaling factor of the dipolar coupling strength at different temperatures is observed. The C–H internuclear distance derived from the size of the dipolar coupling is similar to that observed in the crystal structure. The errors in the dipolar coupling strength observed in the REDOR-type experiments are similar to those reported for diamagnetic systems. Increase in resolution due to the Fermi contact shifts, coupled with MAS frequencies of 30–35 kHz allowed to estimate the hyperfine coupling strengths for protons and carbons from the temperature dependence of the chemical shift and obtain a high resolution <sup>1</sup>H–<sup>1</sup>H spin diffusion spectrum. This study shows the utility of REDOR-type sequences in obtaining reliable structural and dynamical information from a paramagnetic complex. We believe that this can help in studying the active site of paramagnetic metalloproteins at high resolution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 101728"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101728","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25498679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Separated quadrupole and shift interactions of 2H NMR spectra in paramagnetic solids by asymmetric pulse sequences","authors":"Takahiro Iijima , Shinobu Ohki , Masataka Tansho","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Separated pure-quadrupole (PQ) and -shift (PS) spectra of <sup>2</sup><span>H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of paramagnetic solids are obtained and correlated by simple pulse sequences that can acquire the full magnetization under ideal conditions. Two-dimensional NMR signals obtained using an asymmetric </span><em>π</em><span>-pulse-inserted quadrupole-echo (APIQE) sequence yielded separated spectra through the skew operation of an affine transform (AT) before a Fourier transform<span>. Modified APIQE sequences that acquire whole echo signals were fabricated, and separated PQ and PS spectra were obtained by applying a combination of AT, such as rotation and skew operations, to the signal data. These methods were demonstrated for diamagnetic Zn(CD</span></span><sub>3</sub>CO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>⋅2H<sub>2</sub>O and paramagnetic Nd(CD<sub>3</sub>CO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>3</sub>⋅1.5H<sub>2</sub>O. Further, the dynamics of the D<sub>2</sub>O molecule and [Co(D<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>6</sub>]<sup>2+</sup><span> ion in paramagnetic CoSiF</span><sub>6</sub>⋅6D<sub>2</sub>O was analyzed based on the temperature dependence of the separated spectra.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101709"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101709","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38864017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent progress in dipolar recoupling techniques under fast MAS in solid-state NMR spectroscopy","authors":"Yi Ji , Lixin Liang , Xinhe Bao , Guangjin Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101711","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101711","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>With the recent advances in NMR hardware and probe design technology, magic-angle spinning (MAS) rates over 100 kHz are accessible now, even on commercial solid NMR probes. Under such fast MAS conditions, excellent spectral resolution has been achieved by efficient suppression of anisotropic interactions, which also opens an avenue to the proton-detected NMR experiments in solids. Numerous methods have been developed to take full advantage of fast MAS during the last decades. Among them, dipolar recoupling<span> techniques under fast MAS play vital roles in the determination of the molecular structure and dynamics, and are also key elements in multi-dimensional correlation NMR experiments. Herein, we review the dipolar recoupling techniques, especially those developed in the past two decades for fast-to-ultrafast MAS conditions. A major focus for our discussion is the ratio of RF field </span></span>strength (in frequency) to MAS frequency, </span><span><math><mrow><msub><mi>ν</mi><mn>1</mn></msub></mrow></math></span>/<span><math><mrow><msub><mi>ν</mi><mi>r</mi></msub></mrow></math></span>, in different pulse sequences, which determines whether these dipolar recoupling techniques are suitable for NMR experiments under fast MAS conditions. Systematic comparisons are made among both heteronuclear and homonuclear dipolar recoupling schemes. In addition, the schemes developed specially for proton-detection NMR experiments under ultrafast MAS conditions are highlighted as well.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 101711"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101711","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38872026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent developments in deuterium solid-state NMR for the detection of slow motions in proteins","authors":"Liliya Vugmeyster","doi":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101710","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101710","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Slow timescale dynamics in proteins are essential for a variety of biological functions spanning ligand binding, enzymatic catalysis, </span>protein folding and misfolding regulations, as well as protein–protein and protein–nucleic acid interactions. In this review, we focus on the experimental and theoretical developments of </span><sup>2</sup>H static NMR methods applicable for studies of microsecond to millisecond motional modes in proteins, particularly rotating frame relaxation dispersion (<em>R</em><sub>1ρ</sub><span>), quadrupolar Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill (QCPMG) relaxation dispersion, and quadrupolar chemical exchange saturation transfer<span> NMR experiments (Q-CEST). With applications chosen from amyloid-β fibrils, we show the complementarity of these approaches for elucidating the complexities of conformational ensembles in disordered domains in the non-crystalline solid state, with the employment of selective deuterium labels. Combined with recent advances in relaxation dispersion backbone measurements for </span></span><sup>15</sup>N/<sup>13</sup>C/<sup>1</sup>H nuclei, these techniques provide powerful tools for studies of biologically relevant timescale dynamics in disordered domains in the solid state.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21937,"journal":{"name":"Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 101710"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2020.101710","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38826956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}