title: High-performance selective excitation pulses for solid- and liquid-state NMR spectroscopy.
abstract: Computer-optimized selective pulses are routinely used in solution-state NMR spectroscopy. At the same time, their utility and importance for solid-state applications has yet to be fully realized. We suggest a new computational approach that makes the design of soft selective pulses with desired properties relatively straightforward. By applying this technique to the generic selective excitation problem, we have arrived at a family of high performance selective excitation pulses, dubbed E-Family, that allows more flexibility and better performance than analogous pulses previously reported in the literature. The new pulses have been successfully tested in both solid- and solution-state NMR experiments. A theoretical treatment of the effects of chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) on the selective excitation in magic-angle spinning (MAS) experiments in solids is presented. The set of heuristics that comprise our new strategy were incorporated into a general NMR simulation program SPINEVOLUTION.
authors.affiliation: Center for Magnetic Resonance, Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veshtort
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Griffin
mesh_terms: D016880:Anisotropy; D003198:Computer Simulation; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013113:Spin Labels
chemical_list: D013113:Spin Labels