J-modulated ADEQUATE experiments using different kinds of refocusing pulses
✍ Scribed by Christina M. Thiele; Wolfgang Bermel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 331 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0749-1581
- DOI
- 10.1002/mrc.2055
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Owing to the recent developments concerning residual dipolar couplings (RDCs), the interest in methods for the accurate determination of coupling constants is renascenting. We intended to use the J‐modulated ADEQUATE experiment by Kövér et al. for the measurement of ^13^C^13^C coupling constants at natural abundance. The use of adiabatic composite chirp pulses instead of the conventional 180° pulses, which compensate for the offset dependence of ^13^C 180° pulses, led to irregularities of the line shapes in the indirect dimension causing deviations of the extracted coupling constants. This behaviour was attributed to coupling evolution, during the time of the adiabatic pulse (2 ms), in the J‐modulation spin echo. The replacement of this pulse by different kinds of refocusing pulses indicated that a pair of BIPs (broadband inversion pulses), which behave only partially adiabatic, leads to correct line shapes and coupling constants conserving the good sensitivity obtained with adiabatic pulses. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.