title: Using hyperbolic secant pulses to assist characterization of chemical shift tensors for half-integer spin quadrupolar nuclei in MAS powder samples.
abstract: Determination of the NMR anisotropic magnetic shielding parameters from magic angle spinning, MAS, powder samples containing half-integer spin quadrupolar nuclei is achieved by analysis of the difference spectrum obtained with and without application of a hyperbolic secant pulse. Application of a hyperbolic secant pulse to any spinning sideband associated with the central transition, m(I) = 1/2 to m(I) = - 1/2, results in 'saturation' of the entire central transition manifold. Similarly, if one spinning sideband associated with the m(I) = 3/2 to m(I) = 1/2 and m(I) = - 1/2 to m(I) = - 3/2 satellite transitions is perturbed, the entire satellite manifold associated with these transitions is 'saturated' while the central transition is enhanced by population transfer. Three 'difference spectrum' techniques are employed to selectively yield the spinning sidebands associated predominantly from the central transition. The success of these difference techniques is first demonstrated by examining (51)V NMR spectra of three metavanadate salts and (59)Co NMR spectra of Co(acac)(3). The vanadium and cobalt chemical shift tensors in these compounds have spans between 400 and 1400 ppm. Because the hyperbolic secant techniques proposed here yielded results that are in good agreement with earlier reports, they have been applied to characterize the (51)V chemical shift tensor of the dimer of bis(N, N-dimethylhydroxamido)-hydroxooxovanadate, {V(O)(ONMe(2))(2)}(2)O, whose chemical shift tensor has not been previously reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Gunning/Lemieux Chemistry Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G2, Canada.
authors.forename: Thomas T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Nakashima
authors.forename: Roshanak
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teymoori
authors.forename: Roderick E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Wasylishen
mesh_terms: D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014638:Vanadates / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: C402001:bis(N,N-dimethylhydroxamido)hydroxooxovanadate; D014638:Vanadates