## Abstract NMR spectra of molecules oriented in liquid crystals provide homo‐ and heteronuclear dipolar couplings and thereby the geometry of the molecules. Several inequivalent dilute spins such as ^13^C and ^15^N coupled to protons form different coupled spin systems in their natural abundance a
Simultaneous determination of 1H–1H and 1H–13C residual dipolar couplings in a chiral liquid crystal solvent using a natural abundance HSQC experiment
✍ Scribed by Vasilios M. Marathias; Igor Goljer; Alvin C. Bach II
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0749-1581
- DOI
- 10.1002/mrc.1597
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A high‐resolution, phase‐sensitive, natural abundance F~2~‐coupled ^1^H–^13^C HSQC (F2HSQC) NMR experiment was developed to measure simultaneously both ^n^D~HH~ and ^1^D~CH~ residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) of small molecules present in a chiral polypeptide liquid crystal solvent system composed of poly‐γ‐benzyl‐L‐glutamate (PBLG) in CDCl~3~. Because this is an indirect‐detection NMR experiment, the relatively small amount of sample (7.5 mg in this study) and short acquisition times (5 h) that are required make this HSQC experiment well suited for samples that are either limited in solubility or in quantity or require short analysis times. The F2HSQC experiment can be performed without any specialized equipment or sample modification and can enhance our ability to measure RDCs accurately and rapidly in polypeptide liquid crystal solvents. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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## Abstract It is demonstrated that in a case where neither the proton nor the natural‐abundance ^13^C‐satellite spectra of a partially oriented molecule carry enough structural information, one can determine the entire molecular geometry by the combined use of several liquid crystals as solvents.