title: Repetitive sideband-selective double frequency sweeps for sensitivity enhancement of MAS NMR of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei.
abstract: A sensitivity enhancement scheme aiming at selective adiabatic inversion of a single set of satellite transition sidebands under magic angle spinning has been employed on samples of albite containing a single moderately distorted (27)Al site and zoisite containing two highly distorted octahedral (27)Al sites. Overall enhancements of ∼2.5 for albite and ∼3 for the two AlO(6) sites of zoisite are reported by applying this scheme at different spinning speeds reflecting the versatility of this enhancement scheme which achieves significant signal-to-noise enhancements for the systems with moderately high quadrupolar coupling and high quadrupolar coupling. Repeating the sensitivity enhancement scheme and signal readout several times without allowing for spin-lattice relaxation leads to sensitivity enhancements of factors of ∼4 for albite and ∼5 for zoisite which substantially increases the detectability of the quadrupolar sites. The effectiveness of this scheme at high magnetic field under very fast magic angle spinning has been demonstrated. Finally, the possibility of performing spectral editing by selective enhancement of one of the quadrupolar sites in zoisite whilst keeping the other site unaffected has been explored.
authors.affiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Heyendaalsweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goswami
authors.forename: P J M
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: van Bentum
authors.forename: A P M
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Kentgens
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008956:Models, Chemical; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity