Motional broadening: an important distinction between multiple-quantum and satellite-transition MAS NMR of quadrupolar nuclei

Autor: Andrew J. Berry, Stephen Wimperis, Sasa Antonijevic, Sharon E. Ashbrook
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Chemical Physics Letters. 364:634-642
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(02)01412-4
Popis: Multiple-quantum (MQ) and satellite-transition (ST) magic-angle spinning (MAS) are two very similar techniques used to obtain high-resolution or ‘isotropic’ NMR spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei. In a variety of materials it is observed that some STMAS peaks are very broad compared with the corresponding MQMAS peaks, sometimes so broad that they are unobservable. We present 17 O ( I =5/2) NMR spectra of two materials, chondrodite (2Mg 2 SiO 4 · Mg(OH) 2 ) and clinohumite (4Mg 2 SiO 4 ·Mg(OH) 2 ), exhibiting this phenomenon and show that the cause is motional broadening arising from the combined effects of molecular reorientation, the quadrupolar interaction and MAS.
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