scholarly journals Origins of Small Proton Chemical Shift Differences in Monodeuterated Methyl Groups

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (17) ◽  
pp. 8943-8949 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Maduka Ogba ◽  
Stuart J. Elliott ◽  
David A. Kolin ◽  
Lynda J. Brown ◽  
Sebastian Cevallos ◽  
...  
Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1610
Author(s):  
Stuart Elliott ◽  
O. Ogba ◽  
Lynda Brown ◽  
Daniel O’Leary

Monodeuterated methyl groups have previously been demonstrated to provide access to long-lived nuclear spin states. This is possible when the CH2D rotamers have sufficiently different populations and the local environment is chiral, which foments a non-negligible isotropic chemical shift difference between the two CH2D protons. In this article, the focus is on the N-CH2D group of N-CH2D-2-methylpiperidine and other suitable CH2D-piperidine derivatives. We used a combined experimental and computational approach to investigate how rotameric symmetry breaking leads to a 1H CH2D chemical shift difference that can subsequently be tuned by a variety of factors such as temperature, acidity and 2-substituted molecular groups.


2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reino Laatikainen ◽  
Tommi Hassinen ◽  
Juuso Lehtivarjo ◽  
Mika Tiainen ◽  
Juha Jungman ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Malär ◽  
Laura A. Völker ◽  
Riccardo Cadalbert ◽  
Lauriane Lecoq ◽  
Matthias Ernst ◽  
...  

Temperature-dependent NMR experiments are often complicated by rather long magnetic-field equilibration times, for example occurring upon a change of sample temperature. We demonstrate that the fast temporal stabilization of the magnetic field can be achieved by actively stabilizing the temperature which allows to quantify the weak temperature dependence of the proton chemical shift which can be diagnostic for the presence of hydrogen bonds. Hydrogen bonding plays a central role in molecular recognition events from both fields, chemistry and biology. Their direct detection by standard structure determination techniques, such as X-ray crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy, remains challenging due to the difficulties of approaching the required resolution, on the order of 1 Å. We herein explore a spectroscopic approach using solid-state NMR to identify protons engaged in hydrogen bonds and explore the measurement of proton chemical-shift temperature coefficients. Using the examples of a phosphorylated amino acid and the protein ubiquitin, we show that fast Magic-Angle Spinning (MAS) experiments at 100 kHz yield sufficient resolution in proton-detected spectra to quantify the rather small chemical-shift changes upon temperature variations.<br>


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