{"title":"EPR Spectroscopy of the Ground Electron State of the Fe2+ Impurity Ion in Amethyst","authors":"V. F. Tarasov, R. B. Zaripov","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01683-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01683-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Properties of two lowest electron levels of the Fe<sup>2+</sup> impurity ion in a natural amethyst are studied by continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in the Q-band. It is established that the these levels present quasi-doublet <span>(left| { pm 2} rightrangle)</span>with zero-field splitting of 30.9 ± 0.2 GHz. Orientation of principal magnetic axes and value of <i>g</i>-factor of this paramagnetic center are determined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 9","pages":"961 - 967"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141641808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna G. Chetkova, Sergey N. Trukhan, Oleg N. Martyanov
{"title":"Vanadyl Porphyrin: Efficient Spin Probe to Study the Alumina Surface of Supported Catalysts","authors":"Anna G. Chetkova, Sergey N. Trukhan, Oleg N. Martyanov","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01681-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01681-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The EPR method and vanadyl tetraphenylporphyrin complex (VOTPP) as a spin probe were employed to study the transformation of the γ-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> surface during temperature treatment. It has been shown that VOTPP complex is stable at least up to a temperature of 450 °C and <span>({P}_{{text{O}}_{2}})</span> ≲ 3 Pa. Four distinct forms of vanadyl complex were identified on the γ-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> surface, depending on the annealing temperature. The intensity ratio between these forms, exhibiting significantly different spin-Hamiltonian parameters, depend on the degree of surface hydration, which in turn determines the ratio between sites with different acidity on the γ-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> surface. It has been shown that VOTPP complex demonstrate reversible transitions between different adsorption forms on the alumina surface during dehydration/hydration cycles. The observed phenomenon can be explained by the coordination vanadyl spin probe along the axial axis to the surface centers of different polarity/acidity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 10","pages":"1293 - 1306"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141643946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carreras J., Caputo M., Colasurdo D., Pila M., Ruiz D., Laurella S.
{"title":"Elucidation of Organic Reaction Mechanisms Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: A review","authors":"Carreras J., Caputo M., Colasurdo D., Pila M., Ruiz D., Laurella S.","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01676-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01676-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a technique mainly used for structure determination, has also been extensively used for mechanism elucidation. The study of the different steps involved in a chemical reaction is of utmost importance since it permits the optimization of reaction conditions to improve the yield of a synthesis or to obtain one possible product over another one, for example. This review is organized into two sections. Firstly, the experimental issues concerning the applications of NMR to the elucidation of reaction mechanisms are revised: advantages, limitations and challenges are discussed. The different techniques used for overcoming the difficulties concerning NMR (such as low sensitivity, peak resolution, and mixing time) are described (including stop-flow, rapid-injection, liquid chromatography-NMR, dynamic nuclear polarization, and parahydrogen-induced polarization, among others). In the second section, experiments specifically designed for obtaining mechanistic information by means of different NMR techniques are summarized: kinetic experiments, detection of reaction intermediates, isotope labeling, variable-temperature experiments, and variable-pH experiments. The main objective of this work is to give an overview on the relevance of NMR as a very useful tool for elucidating organic reaction mechanisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 11","pages":"1335 - 1376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kirill A. Gomonov, Vasilii V. Pelipko, Igor A. Litvinov, Ruslan I. Baichurin, Sergey V. Makarenko
{"title":"Nuclear Overhauser Effect in Determining the Configuration of 2-Nitrofuran-3-Carboxylates Hydrazones","authors":"Kirill A. Gomonov, Vasilii V. Pelipko, Igor A. Litvinov, Ruslan I. Baichurin, Sergey V. Makarenko","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01677-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01677-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The structure of 4-acetyl-2-nitrofuran-3-carboxylates hydrazones obtained from the interaction of 4-acetyl-5-methyl-2-nitrofuran-3-carboxylates with substituted hydrazines was studied using 1D and 2D <sup>1</sup>H, <sup>13</sup>C NMR spectroscopy. According to <sup>1</sup>H–<sup>1</sup>H NOESY data, it was shown that the hydrazones under consideration exist in the <i>E</i>-configuration, confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 8","pages":"839 - 846"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quan Lam, Casey Van Stappen, Yi Lu, Sergei A. Dikanov
{"title":"1H HYSCORE Studies of Second Sphere Variants of the Type 1 Copper Site in Azurin: Influence of Mutations on the Hyperfine Couplings of Cys112 CβH2 Protons","authors":"Quan Lam, Casey Van Stappen, Yi Lu, Sergei A. Dikanov","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01665-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01665-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, we examined the influence of F114P, F114N, and N47S mutations on the electronic structure of the T1 copper center in azurin (Az) by studying the hyperfine couplings of C<sub>β</sub>H<sub>2</sub> protons of Cys112 using the two-dimensional (2D) pulsed EPR technique HYSCORE (hyperfine sublevel correlation). Our results show that isotropic hyperfine couplings for the two Cys112 C<sub>β</sub> protons in WTAz, F114NAz, and N47SAz vary within 21 ± 2 MHz, with differences of only several tenths of MHz between the two protons in a given protein despite major variations previously observed in S<sub>C112</sub> electron density. Furthermore, significantly smaller couplings of 0.7 MHz and 7.4 MHz are observed for the F114PAz mutation—which eliminates a backbone amide H-bonding interaction with S<sub>C112</sub>—despite previous observations of a significant <i>increase</i> in S character in the SOMO, demonstrating a more complex relationship between C<sub>β</sub>–<sup>1</sup>H hyperfine and the unpaired spin density of S<sub>C112</sub> than previously proposed. In addition, the 2D HYSCORE spectra show resolvable differences in the anisotropic couplings between the two protons in all samples, indicating inconsistencies between previously reported ENDOR and computational data for the WTAz protein. Other findings visible in 2D spectra is the distortion of the cross-ridges from Cys112 C<sub>β</sub>H<sub>2</sub> protons with the large isotropic couplings resulted from <i>a</i><sub><i>iso</i></sub> strain produced by the fluctuations of the C<sub>β</sub>‒H<sub>2</sub> group orientation within <i>θ</i> ~ ± 2° degrees around the most populated conformation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 9","pages":"1159 - 1174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141571777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Konstantin V. Tyutyukin, Alexandr V. Ievlev, Vladimir V. Matveev, Luis M. Varela, Oscar Cabeza
{"title":"Molecular Mobility Study of 1-Butyl-1-Methylpyrrolidinium Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide Ionic Liquid by NMR Diffusometry","authors":"Konstantin V. Tyutyukin, Alexandr V. Ievlev, Vladimir V. Matveev, Luis M. Varela, Oscar Cabeza","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01678-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01678-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) investigations of the ionic liquid (IL) 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (BmpyrTFSI) are presented. BmpyrTFSI is one of the most commonly used electrolytes, either as a pure liquid or in combination with other solvents and salts. We have studied its physicochemical properties by NMR diffusion, which allows us to measure independently the self-diffusion coefficients of both anions and cations: <sup>1</sup>H for the bmpyr<sup>+</sup> cation, <sup>19</sup>F for the TFSI anion and <sup>13</sup>C for both ions. The purity of the test liquid was verified by NMR spectroscopy and it was shown that there were no impurity lines in the spectra on the <sup>1</sup>H and <sup>13</sup>C nuclei. Self-diffusion coefficients of the cation and anion were measured in the temperature range of 243 to 333 K, which were used to study the mobility of the ions for comparison with the ionic conductivity. All the diffusion attenuations are described by a single component; we can conclude that neither ion pairs nor more complex conglomerates are observed in our system. We believe that the conductivity is completely determined by the self-diffusion of the ions. In addition, the agreement of our data with literature data on the temperature dependence of self-diffusion coefficients on the values of viscosity and ionic conductivity is considered. It is shown that the Stokes–Einstein relation is a poor description of the molecular mobility of this IL.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 8","pages":"785 - 794"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141571611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of γ-Irradiation on Separation of Nuclear Spin-Relaxation Mechanisms Under Magnetic Saturation in a NaF Crystal","authors":"A. M. Rochev, V. M. Mikushev, E. V. Charnaya","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01675-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01675-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Studies were carried out on the effect of additional continuous magnetic saturation of the NMR line on nuclear spin relaxation in a NaF single crystal before and after γ-irradiation. The times of magnetization recovery after inversion were measured at room temperature using a Bruker Avance 400 pulse spectrometer. The magnetic saturation was obtained by exciting a long additional resonance pulse. Two main contributions to relaxation for quadrupole <sup>23</sup>Na nuclei, due to spin-phonon coupling in a regular crystalline lattice and due to magnetic centers, were separated by suppressing the latter contribution. γ-irradiation was shown to enhance spin relaxation, however, the magnetic saturation does not suppress the contribution of color centers. The times corresponding to <sup>23</sup>Na relaxation due to spin-phonon coupling in a regular lattice, due to magnetic centers and color centers were evaluated. It was shown that the rate of spin–lattice relaxation for dipole <sup>19</sup>F nuclei was not affected by magnetic saturation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 8","pages":"819 - 826"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna S. Kashnik, Anastasiya N. Atnyukova, Denis S. Baranov, Sergei A. Dzuba
{"title":"DEER Study of Spatial Arrangement of Spin-Labeled Diclofenac in Lipid Bilayers of Different Composition","authors":"Anna S. Kashnik, Anastasiya N. Atnyukova, Denis S. Baranov, Sergei A. Dzuba","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01674-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01674-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Here, we use double electron–electron resonance (DEER, also known as PELDOR) to study the interaction of spin-labeled diclofenac (diclofenac-SL) with three types of model membranes consisting of palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC), an equimolar mixture of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) and 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), and this mixture with the addition of 20 mol% cholesterol. The results suggest that lipid-mediated lateral clustering of diclofenac-SL molecules occurs in all cases. For the POPC bilayer, alternative clustering takes place in two opposite leaflets, with random distribution of the molecules within the clusters. For DOPC/DPPC and DOPC/DPPC/cholesterol bilayers, diclofenac-SL molecules are separated by a distance of at least 1.4 nm. DOPC/DPPC/cholesterol bilayers are known to form nanoscale liquid disordered and liquid ordered lateral structures, the latter called lipid rafts. For this case, diclofenac-SL molecules were found to be captured by lipid rafts, forming a quasi-regular two-dimensional substructure in them with a “superlattice” parameter of ~ 3.0 nm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 9","pages":"1145 - 1157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141519424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy on Magnetic van der Waals Compounds","authors":"Vladislav Kataev, Bernd Büchner, Alexey Alfonsov","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01671-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01671-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The field of research on magnetic van der Waals compounds—a special subclass of quasi-two-dimensional materials—is currently rapidly expanding due to the relevance of these compounds to fundamental research where they serve as a playground for the investigation of different models of quantum magnetism and also in view of their unique magneto-electronic and magneto-optical properties pertinent to novel technological applications. The electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy plays an important role in the exploration of the rich magnetic behavior of van der Waals compounds due to its high sensitivity to magnetic anisotropies and unprecedentedly high energy resolution that altogether enable one to obtain thorough insights into the details of the spin structure in the magnetically ordered state and the low-energy spin dynamics in the ordered and paramagnetic phases. This article provides an overview of the recent achievements in this field made by the ESR spectroscopic techniques encompassing representatives of antiferro- and ferromagnetic van der Waals compounds of different crystal structures and chemical composition as well as of a special category of these materials termed magnetic topological insulators.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 9","pages":"923 - 960"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00723-024-01671-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ilya V. Yakovlev, Evgeniy S. Papulovskiy, Aleksandr A. Shubin, Aleksandr V. Toktarev, Olga B. Lapina
{"title":"Hydration and Hydrolysis of Boron-Substituted Aluminophosphate BAPO-5 According to Solid-State NMR and DFT Calculations","authors":"Ilya V. Yakovlev, Evgeniy S. Papulovskiy, Aleksandr A. Shubin, Aleksandr V. Toktarev, Olga B. Lapina","doi":"10.1007/s00723-024-01673-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00723-024-01673-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Microporous aluminophosphates (AlPOs) are prospective materials that can be used as molecular sieves and adsorbents in their pure form or catalysts and catalyst supports when some of the sites are substituted with heteroatoms. One of the approaches to create and finely tune Brønsted acid sites in AlPO is simultaneous introduction of Si and B into the framework. However, boron substitution of AlPOs is briefly studied and proceeds with difficulties. Here, we apply multinuclear solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance together with DFT calculations to investigate the behavior of aluminophosphate AlPO-5 and its boron-substituted analogue BAPO-5 upon interaction with water. We demonstrate that the structure of AlPO-5 facilitates a homogeneous distribution of water molecules and makes BAPO-5 less susceptible to hydrolysis compared to microporous AlPO-11 and BAPO-11.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":469,"journal":{"name":"Applied Magnetic Resonance","volume":"55 10","pages":"1245 - 1261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}