title: Water T2 relaxation in sugar solutions.
abstract: 1H spin-spin relaxation times of water were measured with the CPMG sequence in dilute aqueous solutions of glucitol, mannitol, glycerol, glycol, the methyl D-pyranosides of alpha-glucose, beta-glucose, alpha-galactose, beta-galactose, alpha-xylose, beta-xylose, beta-arabinose and sucrose, alpha,alpha-trehalose, beta-maltose, maltotriose and maltoheptaose. The relaxation-time dispersion was measured by varying the CPMG pulse spacing, tau. These data were interpreted by means of the Carver-Richards model in which exchange between water protons and labile solute hydroxyl protons provides a significant contribution to the relaxation. From the dependences on temperature and tau, parameters characteristic of the pool of hydroxyls belonging to a given solute were extracted by nonlinear regression, including: the fraction of exchangeable protons, P, the chemical-shift difference between water protons and hydroxyl protons, deltaomega, the intrinsic spin-spin relaxation time, T2, and the chemical exchange rate, k. These solute-specific parameters are related, respectively, to the concentration, identity, mobility and exchange life-time of the hydroxyl site. At 298 K, values of deltaomega, T2 and k were found to be of the order of 1 ppm, 100 ms and 1000 s(-1), respectively. Effects of molecular size, conformation and solute concentration were investigated. The exchange mechanism was characterised by Eyring activation enthalpies and entropies with values in the ranges 50-70 kJ mol(-1) and -10 to 60 J K(-1)mol(-1), respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO19 6AL, UK. deborahfabri@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fabri
authors.forename: Martin A K
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Thomas K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Halstead
mesh_terms: D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry*; D008759:Methylglycosides / Q000737:chemistry; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods; D012996:Solutions / Q000737:chemistry; D013402:Sugar Alcohols / Q000737:chemistry; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates; D008759:Methylglycosides; D012996:Solutions; D013402:Sugar Alcohols; D014867:Water