The use of rotational-echo double resonance NMR to measure distances from an observed tightly coupled cluster of 13C spins to a distant 15N, 31P, or 19F is practical if all homonuclear 13C-13C dipolar interactions are suppressed by multiple-pulse decoupling during heteronuclear dipolar evolution. This scheme is first calibrated by experiments performed on multiply labeled alanines and then appl...

13C NMR of the aromatic residues of Clostridium acidi-urici [Phe*]ferredoxin (a chemically modified ferredoxin in which a phenylalanyl residue replaces a tyrosyl residue) and Clostridium pasteurianum ferredoxin permits one to distinguish and probe each iron-sulfur (Fe&*) cluster neighboring the aromatic residues within each protein. This is because the ring carbon resonance shifts of the phenyl...

The structures of a number of fluorocarbocations were calculated at the correlated MP2/6-31G* level. 13C and 19F NMR chemical shifts of fluorocarbocations were calculated for the first time using IGLO and GIAO-MP2 methods. The data showed good correlation of calculated 19F and 13C NMR chemical shifts with the experimental chemical shifts of fluorocarbocations. The correlation for GIAO-MP2-calcu...

Resolved localized nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals of 1H bound to 13C label in the carbon positions of glutamate C4, C3 and glutamine C4, C3, as well as in aspartate C3, lactate C3, alanine C3, gamma-aminobutyric acid C3, and glucose C1 were simultaneously observed in spectra obtained from rat brain in vivo. Time-resolved label incorporation was measured with a new adiabatic carbon edi...

An efficient synthesis of vinylphosphonates is described. This involves the reaction of alkyl cyanoformates and dialkyl acetylendicarboxylates in the presence of trialkyl phosphites. The 1H, 13C NMR, and 31P NMR spectra of vinylphosphonates having different substitution are consistent with the presence of two geometrical isomers.

13C solid-state NMR experiments were performed to investigate the structure of beeswax in the native state (crude beeswax) for the first time. From quantitative direct polarization 13C MAS NMR spectrum, it was found that the fraction of internal-chain methylene (int-(CH2)) component compared to other components of crude beeswax was over 95%. The line shape of the int-(CH2) carbon resonance regi...

The adduct formation between 2-trimethylstannyl-pyridine (1) and triethylborane, leading to 2a, and 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane, leading to 2b, was studied by ’H, “ B, 13C, 15N and 119Sn NMR in solution. Changes in the magnitude of the coupling constants 7(119Sn, 13C), with respect to the data for 1, were analysed. The absolute signs have been determined [all coupling constants " / (119Sn,13C) t...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is widely applied from analytics to biomedicine although it an inherently insensitive phenomenon. Overcoming sensitivity challenges key further broaden the applicability of NMR and, for example, improve medical diagnostics. Here, we present a rapid strategy enhance signals 13C-labelled metabolites with para-hydrogen in particular, 13C-pyruvate, important molecul...

The 32-residue leucine zipper subsequence, called here Jun-lz, associates in benign media to form a parallel two-stranded coiled coil. Studies are reported of its thermal unfolding/folding transition by circular dichroism (CD) on samples of natural isotopic abundance and by both equilibrium and spin inversion transfer (SIT) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) on samples labeled at the leucine-18 a...

Aprotic diazotization of anthranilic acid with isoamylnitrite or amylnitrite gave benzenediazonium-2- carboxylate. Subsequent thermal decomposition of this diazonium salt (in situ) in 1,2-dichloroethane as a solvent at 85OC and in the presence of 2,5-diethyl-3,4-diphenylcyclopentadienonaes a trapping agent gave 1,4-diethyl-2, 3-diphenylnaphthalene in high yield, after loss of carbon monoxid...