title: 19F/29Si distance determination in fluoride-containing octadecasil by Hartmann-Hahn cross-polarization under fast magic-angle spinning.
abstract: 19F/29Si Hartmann-Hahn continuous wave cross-polarization (CP) has been applied under fast magic-angle spinning (MAS) to a powder sample of octadecasil. Strong oscillations occur during CP on a sideband matching condition between the isolated 29Si-19F spin pairs formed by the silicons in the D4R units and the fluoride anions. The magnitude of the dipolar coupling constant was deduced directly from the line-splitting between the intense singularities of the Pake-like patterns obtained by Fourier transformation of the oscillatory polarization transfer. The corresponding Si-F internuclear distance, r = 2.62 +/- 0.05 A, is found to be in very good agreement with the X-ray crystal structure and the value of 2.69 +/- 0.04 A recently reported from rotational echo double resonance (REDOR) and transferred echo double resonance (TEDOR) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments. Furthermore, the CP technique is still reliable under fast MAS where both REDOR and TEDOR sequences suffer from severe artefacts due to finite pulse lengths. In octadecasil, a spinning frequency of approximately 14 kHz is shown to be necessary for an effective suppression of 19F-19F spin diffusion. The influences of experimental missettings and radiofrequency (RF) field inhomogeneity are taken into account.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Chimie, UMR 7510 CNRS, Bruker, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bertani
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raya
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reinheimer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gougeon
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Delmotte
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hirschinger
mesh_terms: D005459:Fluorides; D005461:Fluorine; D007554:Isotopes; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D012825:Silicon
chemical_list: D007554:Isotopes; D005461:Fluorine; D005459:Fluorides; D012825:Silicon