title: Radio frequency-driven recoupling at high magic-angle spinning frequencies: homonuclear recoupling sans heteronuclear decoupling.
abstract: We describe solid-state NMR homonuclear recoupling experiments at high magic-angle spinning (MAS) frequencies using the radio frequency-driven recoupling (RFDR) scheme. The effect of heteronuclear decoupling interference during RFDR recoupling at high spinning frequencies is investigated experimentally and via numerical simulations, resulting in the identification of optimal decoupling conditions. The effects of MAS frequency, RF field amplitude, bandwidth, and chemical shift offsets are examined. Most significantly, it is shown that broadband homonuclear correlation spectra can be efficiently obtained using RFDR without decoupling during the mixing period in fully protonated samples, thus considerably reducing the rf power requirements for acquisition of (13)C-(13)C correlation spectra. The utility of RFDR sans decoupling is demonstrated with broadband correlation spectra of a peptide and a model protein at high MAS frequencies and high magnetic field.
authors.affiliation: Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Marvin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bayro
authors.forename: Ramesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramachandran
authors.forename: Marc A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Caporini
authors.forename: Matthew T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Eddy
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Griffin
mesh_terms: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D011506:Proteins