title: Kinetics of NMR spin-lock polarization transfer in crystalline glycine and spin-lattice relaxation of amino acids.
abstract: We report data determined from proton-carbon polarization-transfer kinetics at 23 degrees C for six common solid amino acids. Proton spin-lattice relaxation times in the rotating frame, T(1rhoH), for alpha-glycine, alanine, cysteine, leucine, isoleucine, and valine determined from the long-time decay of the carbon magnetization indicate that the presence of a mobile entity such as a methyl group shortens T(1rhoH) to a few milliseconds. Polarization transfer between protons and carbons in polycrystalline alpha-glycine is analyzed and compared to theoretical models, two of which account for the variation of polarization-transfer rate with orientation of the dipole-dipole vector in the magnetic field. A generalization of a model proposed by Mueller et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 32 (1974) 1402) reproduces the observed polarization transfer in alpha-glycine with reasonable accuracy, showing that the early time development reflects orientational variation of dipolar oscillations.
authors.affiliation: Brown Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Room 027, Newark, DE 19716-2522, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dybowski
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bai
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D005998:Glycine / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D013113:Spin Labels
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D013113:Spin Labels; D005998:Glycine