{"title":"Prospects of borehole NMR instruments and applications","authors":"Sihui Luo , Jiangfeng Guo , Lizhi Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Borehole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful technology to characterize the petrophysical properties of underground reservoirs in the petroleum industry. The rising complexity of oil and gas exploration and development objectives, as well as the novel application contexts of underground reservoirs, have led to increasingly demanding requirements on borehole NMR technology including instrument design and related processing methods. This mini review summarizes the advances and applications of borehole NMR instruments along with some future possibilities. It may be helpful for researchers and engineers in the petroleum industry to understand the development status and future trends of borehole NMR technology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 4","pages":"Pages 224-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000407/pdfft?md5=e7c20ca8e0288371b2e317579b5f3d89&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000407-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44928634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring Cr(VI) photoreduction at different depths by operando low-field NMR relaxometry","authors":"Beibei Xu, Jingxian Dong, Xuelu Wang, Yefeng Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Chromium (VI) (Cr(VI)), a toxic metal ion, is widely present in industrial wastewater. To reduce the contamination of Cr(VI), many technologies for the photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) have been developed in the past decades. However, the practical application of photocatalysts for the reduction of Cr(VI) in wastewater treatment is often hindered by the complicated photoreduction processes due to the sedimentation and stratification of catalyst particles that present during the treatment of the wastewater. Probing and understanding the influences of the sedimentation and stratification of the catalyst particles on the photoreduction processes are long-term challenges in the field. Herein, we demonstrate that this issue can be solved by using layer location integrated low-field time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) relaxometry. With paramagnetic Cr (III) cation as the molecular probe, we successfully monitored the Cr(VI) photoreduction processes by <em>operando</em> probing the <sup>1</sup>H <em>T</em><sub>2</sub> relaxation time of the photoreduction systems. The influences of catalyst sedimentation and the light wavelength on photocatalysis were studied and discussed. The results showed the great potential of LF-NMR relaxometry in the study of Cr (VI) photoreduction processes during industrial wastewater treatments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 170-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000249/pdfft?md5=c2fa1b08029b7ac439a8ae39f5523977&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000249-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42430857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the intercalation chemistry of layered yttrium hydroxides by 13C solid-state NMR spectroscopy","authors":"Yanxin Liu, Shijia Jiang, Jun Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Layered rare earth hydroxides (LREHs) are a novel class of two-dimensional materials with potential applications in various fields. The exchange reactions with organic anions are typically the first step for the functionalization of LREHs. Although the laminar structures seem to be clear for anion-exchanged compounds, the state of intercalated organic anions and their interactions with cationic rare earth hydroxide layers remain unclear. Herein, we demonstrate that the use of <sup>13</sup>C solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy enables to extract key information on the state of intercalated organic anions such as their local chemical environment, stacking, and dynamics, which are often difficult or impossible to obtain previously. In combination with powder X-ray diffraction and <em>ab initio</em> density functional theory calculations, the intercalation chemistry of two representative layered yttrium hydroxides with selected monovalent organic anions was studied in detail. The products can undergo secondary exchange with a divalent organic anion, depending on the match between the basal spacing of two phases, i.e., the replacement of benzenesulfonate (BS<sup>−</sup>), 2,4-dimethylbenzene sulfonate (DMBS<sup>−</sup>), and 4-ethylbenzene sulfonate (EBS<sup>−</sup>) with 2,6-naphthalene disulfonate (NDS<sup>2−</sup>) is allowed due to the insignificant change in basal spacing after exchange, while the replacement of very long dodecyl benzene sulfonate (DBS<sup>−</sup>) and dodecyl sulfate (DS<sup>−</sup>) with NDS<sup>2−</sup> is forbidden. The results therefore provide valuable insights into the structure-property relationships of LREH-based functional materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 186-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000043/pdfft?md5=ba27458e271fce4405930a3198b119a6&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000043-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47318710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuchen Li , Shengyu Zhang , Ze Wu , Xinhua Peng , Riqiang Fu
{"title":"On the use of cross polarization in solid-state NMR: 1H spin-lock versus adiabatic demagnetization in the rotating frame","authors":"Yuchen Li , Shengyu Zhang , Ze Wu , Xinhua Peng , Riqiang Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cross polarization (CP) is a widely used solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique for enhancing the polarization of dilute <em>S</em> spins from much larger polarization of abundant <em>I</em> spins such as <sup>1</sup>H. To achieve such a polarization transfer, the <em>I</em> spin should either be spin-locked or be converted to the dipolar ordered state through adiabatic demagnetization in the rotating frame. In this work, we analyze the spin dynamics of the Hartmann-Hahn CP (HHCP) utilizing the <sup>1</sup>H spin-locking, and the dipolar-order CP (DOCP) having the <sup>1</sup>H adiabatic demagnetization. We further propose an adiabatic demagnetization CP (ADCP) where a constant radio-frequency pulse is applied on the <em>S</em> spin while <sup>1</sup>H is adiabatically demagnetized. Our analyses indicate that ADCP utilizes the adiabatic passage to effectively achieve the polarization transfer from the <sup>1</sup>H to <em>S</em> spins. In addition, the dipolar ordered state generated during the <sup>1</sup>H demagnetization process could also be converted into the observable <em>S</em> polarization through DOCP, further enhancing the polarized signals. It is shown by both static and magic-angle-spinning (MAS) NMR experiments that ADCP has dramatically broadened the CP matching condition over the other CP schemes. Various samples have been used to demonstrate the polarization transfer efficiency of this newly proposed ADCP scheme.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 147-158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000262/pdfft?md5=8863e949f7f57c4885b1d4fe83f7d2ed&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000262-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47395050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A green route for the preparation of layered double hydroxides from basic magnesium carbonate","authors":"Li Jin , Xiaoyuan Zhou , Juan Wen , Luming Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have received extensive attention in many fields such as catalysis, environmental management and medical applications. Typically, expensive soluble metal salts are commonly used as the starting materials for the synthesis of LDHs. Here, we report a novel synthesis route for Mg/Al-LDH by using inexpensive basic magnesium carbonate as the starting material. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) data show that LDHs with rich defects are formed rapidly at room temperature and good crystallinity can be obtained after further hydrothermal treatment. These results provide a simple, rapid and green preparation method for LDHs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 177-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000237/pdfft?md5=21376bef35756e2bc58755611126a447&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000237-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43183537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Specific protein-urea interactions","authors":"Zhi Wei Wong, Daiwen Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The mechanism of urea's action in protein denaturation remains largely unknown. To provide an experimental basis for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on urea-protein interactions, we investigated the effect of urea on human intestinal fatty acid binding protein (hIFABP) by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) rates at ≤ 2 M urea indicate that urea affects hIFABP in a residue-specific manner via direct urea-protein interactions and preferentially weakens hydrogen bonds between highly protected amides. Residue-specific effects of urea on NMR peak intensities and chemical shifts further support the presence of direct urea-protein interactions. Two-dimensional (2D) water-rotating frame Overhauser enhancement (ROE) data shows one protein-bound water molecule in contact with Val66 and Trp82, one putative bound water molecule in interaction with Thr76 and E-F loop, and that urea at low concentrations cannot displace these protein-bound water molecules. Our urea-nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) experiments using <sup>15</sup>N-urea further show no tightly protein-bound urea molecules. Our results thus suggest specific, but weak or transient, urea-protein interactions, supporting the direct interaction model of urea denaturation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 131-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000225/pdfft?md5=015cd3693d85df00a369ca62ecbac447&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000225-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44886776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yajie Xu , Feng Wang , Ya Wang , Peng Yu , Jingzhong Zhang , Xiaodong Yang
{"title":"Active shim coils design for Halbach magnet based on inverse boundary element method","authors":"Yajie Xu , Feng Wang , Ya Wang , Peng Yu , Jingzhong Zhang , Xiaodong Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With advantages of small volume, high field strength, and compact stray field, the Halbach array magnet is of great potential in desktop NMR applications. However, field inhomogeneity poses a main obstacle to its applications. Active shimming is necessary for improving the field homogeneity. An active shim coil design method for cylindrical Halbach magnet based on inverse boundary element method (iBEM) is introduced in this work. Shim coils targeting 1st∼3rd and Z4/Z5/Z6 spherical harmonic (SH) terms were designed with constraints of field accuracy, resistance, inductance, and current density. Wire loops and symmetric property influence were discussed to further improve the performance of high-order shim coils. Finally, with the prototype of the shim coils constructed, field pattern and SH transformation proved that the coils designed could fit the target SH distribution, though contamination from low-order components existed in high-order terms. A practical shimming experiment on the Halbach magnet has improved the homogeneity from 40.3 ppm to 3.8 ppm in radius 2.5 mm, height 5 mm cylindrical sample space, verifying the coils' compensation ability. This work provides a flexible inverse coil design method for cylindrical Halbach magnet and discusses the high-order shim coil design and implementation, which is potential in nuclear magnetic resonance applications based on Halbach magnet arrays.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 159-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000201/pdfft?md5=8401cc79b16c28e9ff0ef1fd75c6ec05&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000201-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48625912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conformational dynamics in GPCR signaling by NMR","authors":"Yunfei Hu , Changwen Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2022.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate a wide range of cellular responses to various ligands or stimuli, and are the most important drug targets associated with human diseases. While major advances in GPCR structural biology have greatly deepened our understanding of its activation mechanism, the highly complex changes in the structural dynamics of GPCRs during activation remain underdetermined and their links to physiological functions largely unknown. Solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an essential technique that allows the characterization of protein structural dynamics at atomic level, and has been applied in the studies of GPCR structural-function relationship in the past decade. Herein, we summarize a few specific studies in which solution NMR methods were employed and provided novel insights into questions difficult to be addressed by other methods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 139-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516222000250/pdfft?md5=f277bf5b622aae2eae810933892e1c85&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516222000250-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44770326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chunfa Li , Ting Huang , Yubin Bao , Zhe Chen , Guangxin Lin
{"title":"NMR used to study the side-reactions between peroxides and antioxidants during the reactive extrusion process of the impact polypropylene","authors":"Chunfa Li , Ting Huang , Yubin Bao , Zhe Chen , Guangxin Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2021.09.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2021.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Side reaction pathways are observed to occur between antioxidants and peroxide during the processing of multiple resin grades mediated by controlled peroxide-induced degradation of impact polypropylene. In the present work, the reaction mechanism and main by-products between antioxidants and peroxides were investigated. The results demonstrate that peroxides greatly accelerate the decomposition reactions, and the free radicals formed from peroxide decomposition react with, for example, the antioxidant AO1010 to produce dehydrogenation of phenyl propionic unit(s) at the <strong>α</strong> position (cinnamic acid ester moiety), which generates a conjugated system leading to the increased color of the product. It is the first time to confirm the cinnamic acid moiety's existence and report its NMR data. Further, this work confirms the dehydrogenation mechanism by comparison with different sterically hindered phenolic antioxidants. It also systematically summarizes the oxidation and degradation mechanism of AO168 and AO1010 under air and peroxide environments, respectively. Based on present study, clear guidelines are obtained to improve the quality of polymeric products, especially the appearance and stability, during product development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 91-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772516221000292/pdfft?md5=81dd2cdf7901c0b843f73e7c220af51c&pid=1-s2.0-S2772516221000292-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48817976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Wang , Jia Gao , Rongsheng Ma , Yaqian Liu , Mingqing Liu , Fumei Zhong , Jie Hu , Shuju Li , Jihui Wu , Hualiang Jiang , Jiahai Zhang , Ke Ruan
{"title":"Recent progress in fragment-based drug discovery facilitated by NMR spectroscopy","authors":"Lei Wang , Jia Gao , Rongsheng Ma , Yaqian Liu , Mingqing Liu , Fumei Zhong , Jie Hu , Shuju Li , Jihui Wu , Hualiang Jiang , Jiahai Zhang , Ke Ruan","doi":"10.1016/j.mrl.2021.100025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mrl.2021.100025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Considerable developments have been observed in fragment-based lead/drug discovery (FBLD/FBDD) recently, with four drugs approved and many others under investigation. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has gained increasing popularity in FBLD due to its intrinsic capability in characterizing protein-ligand interactions in a large dynamic range of affinity, from weak hits to highly potent drugs. Here, we summarize NMR applications in fragment-based hit-to-lead evolution, including the construction of a fragment library, screening methods, spectra processing, and the delineation of the protein-ligand binding modes. These state-of-the-art NMR techniques have been exemplified in the discovery of inhibitors against multiple targets over the past five years, and they are expected to continue to provide new insights in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93594,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Letters","volume":"2 2","pages":"Pages 107-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.mrl.2021.100025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48384574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}