Advances in Magnetic Resonance

PrefaceSingle Crystal Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of High Temperature Superconductors I. Introduction II. Experimental Data III. Site Identification IV. The Copper Atom Electric Charge V. The Magnetic State of the Copper Atoms VI. The Exchange Coupling between Electron Spins of Neighboring Copper Atoms ReferencesDeuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Dynamics in Alkane/Urea Inclusion Compounds I. Introduction II. Spin Dynamics III. Molecular Dynamics IV. Experimental Results and Comparison with Molecular Dynamic Simulations V. Summarizing Remarks References1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Solids with Magic-Angle Spinning I. Introduction II. Imaging with Magic-Angle Spinning and a Synchronously Rotating Field Gradient III. Imaging with Magic-Angle Spinning, Multiple-Pulse ¿ Decoupling, and a Synchronously Rotating Field Gradient IV Imaging with an Oscillating, Rotating Field Gradient V. Conclusions ReferencesDetection of Weak Heteronuclear Dipolar Coupling by Rotational-Echo Double-Resonance Nuclear Magnetic Resonance I. Introduction II. Description of the Basic Rotational-Echo Double-Resonance (REDOR) Experiment III. REDOR and Mirror-Asymmetric Pulse Sequences IV. REDOR and Mirror-Symmetric Pulse Sequences V. Two-Dimensional REDOR Experiments VI. REDOR with Synchronous Sampling VII. Experimental Details VIII. Conclusions Appendix: Time-Domain Analysis for Creation of Real MAS NMR Spectra ReferencesTwo-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments for Studying Molecular Order and Dynamics in Static and Rotating Solids I. Introduction II. Theory and Methods III. Applications to Solid Polymers IV. Summary and Outlook Appendix: Symmetries Leading to Absorptive Magic-Angle Spinning Spectra ReferencesElectrophoretic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance I. Introduction II. Principles of Electrophoretic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance III. Practical Considerations IV. Applications of High-Resolution Electrophoretic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance V. Conclusions ReferencesUltraslow Atomic Motion by Site-Selective Excitation of Highly Resolved Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lines in Dilute Spin Systems I. Introduction II. Theoretical Background of Site-Selective Excitation (SSE) III. SSE Experiments IV. Atomic Diffusion Measured by SSE V. Summary ReferencesTwo-Dimensional Hybrid Experiments for the Measurement of Small Anisotropies in Magic-Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance I. Introduction II. Spin-Echo Scaling III. Switched-Speed Spinning Spin-Echo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance IV. Switched-Speed Spinning Experiment V. Experimental Results VI. Conclusions ReferencesDeuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Relaxation in Partially Ordered Systems I. Introduction II. Cholesterol-DPPC Phase Equilibria III. Dynamics in Peptide-Phospholipid Mixtures IV. 2H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of the Peptide Backbone: Gramicidin V. Conclusion ReferencesTwo-Dimensional Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of the Conformation of Oriented DNA I. Introduction II. Methods III. Theory IV. Phosphorus-31 Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Oriented A-DNA Fibers V. Carbon-13 Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Oriented A-DNA Fibers VI. Conclusions References113Cd Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Cd2+-Substituted Carboxypeptidase Aa: A Perspective From 113Cd-Shielding Tensors I. Introduction II. Results and Discussion ReferencesIndex