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Suzuki K, Kaji H. Torsion Angle Analysis of a Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter in an Amorphous State Using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced Solid-State NMR. J Am Chem Soc 2023. [PMID: 37487017 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c05204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
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The torsion angle between donor and acceptor segments of a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecule is one of the most critical factors in determining the performance of TADF-based organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) because the torsion angle affects not only the energy gap between the singlet and triplet but also the oscillator strength and spin-orbit coupling. However, the torsion angle is difficult to analyze, because organic molecules are in an amorphous state in OLEDs. Here, we determined the torsion angle of a highly efficient TADF emitter, DACT-II, in an amorphous state by dynamic nuclear polarization enhanced solid-state NMR measurements. From the experimentally obtained chemical shift principal values of 15N on carbazole, we determined the average torsion angle to be 52°. Such quantification of the torsion angles in TADF molecules in amorphous solids will provide deep insight into the TADF mechanism in amorphous OLEDs.
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- Katsuaki Suzuki
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Hartman JD, Harper JK. Improving the accuracy of GIPAW chemical shielding calculations with cluster and fragment corrections. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2022; 122:101832. [PMID: 36198253 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2022.101832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Ab initio methods for predicting NMR parameters in the solid state are an essential tool for assigning experimental spectra and play an increasingly important role in structural characterizations. Recently, a molecular correction (MC) technique has been developed which combines the strengths of plane-wave methods (GIPAW) with single molecule calculations employing Gaussian basis sets. The GIPAW + MC method relies on a periodic calculation performed at a lower level of theory to model the crystalline environment. The GIPAW result is then corrected using a single molecule calculation performed at a higher level of theory. The success of the GIPAW + MC method in predicting a range of NMR parameters is a result of the highly local character of the tensors underlying the NMR observable. However, in applications involving strong intermolecular interactions we find that expanding the region treated at the higher level of theory more accurately captures local many-body contributions to the N15 NMR chemical shielding (CS) tensor. We propose alternative corrections to GIPAW which capture interactions between adjacent molecules at a higher level of theory using either fragment or cluster-based calculations. Benchmark calculations performed on N15 and C13 data sets show that these advanced GIPAW-corrected calculations improve the accuracy of chemical shielding tensor predictions relative to existing methods. Specifically, cluster-based N15 corrections show a 24% and 17% reduction in RMS error relative to GIPAW and GIPAW + MC calculations, respectively. Comparing the benchmark data sets using multiple computational models demonstrates that N15 CS tensor calculations are significantly more sensitive to intermolecular interactions relative to C13. However, fragment and cluster-based corrections that include direct hydrogen bond partners are sufficient for optimizing the accuracy of GIPAW-corrected methods. Finally, GIPAW-corrected methods are applied to the particularly challenging NMR spectral assignment of guanosine dihydrate which contains two guanosine molecules in the asymmetric unit.
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- Joshua D Hartman
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States.
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Vojvodin CS, Holmes ST, Watanabe LK, Rawson JM, Schurko R. Multi-Component Crystals Containing Urea: Mechanochemical Synthesis and Characterization by 35Cl Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations. CrystEngComm 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d1ce01610e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mechanochemical synthesis provides new pathways for the rational design of multi-component crystals (MCCs) involving anionic or cationic components, which offer molecular-level architectures unavailable to MCCs comprised of strictly neutral components....
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Hartman JD, Mathews A, Harper JK. Fast and Accurate Electric Field Gradient Calculations in Molecular Solids With Density Functional Theory. Front Chem 2021; 9:751711. [PMID: 34692646 PMCID: PMC8529703 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.751711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Modern approaches for calculating electric field gradient (EFF) tensors in molecular solids rely upon plane-wave calculations employing periodic boundary conditions (PBC). In practice, models employing PBCs are limited to generalized gradient approximation (GGA) density functionals. Hybrid density functionals applied in the context of gauge-including atomic orbital (GIAO) calculations have been shown to substantially improve the accuracy of predicted NMR parameters. Here we propose an efficient method that effectively combines the benefits of both periodic calculations and single-molecule techniques for predicting electric field gradient tensors in molecular solids. Periodic calculations using plane-wave basis sets were used to model the crystalline environment. We then introduce a molecular correction to the periodic result obtained from a single-molecule calculation performed with a hybrid density functional. Single-molecule calculations performed using hybrid density functionals were found to significantly improve the agreement of predicted 17O quadrupolar coupling constants (C q ) with experiment. We demonstrate a 31% reduction in the RMS error for the predicted 17O C q values relative to standard plane-wave methods using a carefully constructed test set comprised of 22 oxygen-containing molecular crystals. We show comparable improvements in accuracy using five different hybrid density functionals and find predicted C q values to be relatively insensitive to the choice of basis set used in the single molecule calculation. Finally, the utility of high-accuracy 17O C q predictions is demonstrated by examining the disordered 4-Nitrobenzaldehyde crystal structure.
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- Joshua D. Hartman
- Department of Chemistry, Mt. San Jacinto College, Menifee, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Mt. San Jacinto College, Menifee, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
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Wang L, Elliott AB, Moore SD, Beran GJO, Hartman JD, Harper JK. Modeling Small Structural and Environmental Differences in Solids with 15 N NMR Chemical Shift Tensors. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:1008-1017. [PMID: 33604988 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The ability to theoretically predict accurate NMR chemical shifts in solids is increasingly important due to the role such shifts play in selecting among proposed model structures. Herein, two theoretical methods are evaluated for their ability to assign 15 N shifts from guanosine dihydrate to one of the two independent molecules present in the lattice. The NMR data consist of 15 N shift tensors from 10 resonances. Analysis using periodic boundary or fragment methods consider a benchmark dataset to estimate errors and predict uncertainties of 5.6 and 6.2 ppm, respectively. Despite this high accuracy, only one of the five sites were confidently assigned to a specific molecule of the asymmetric unit. This limitation is not due to negligible differences in experimental data, as most sites exhibit differences of >6.0 ppm between pairs of resonances representing a given position. Instead, the theoretical methods are insufficiently accurate to make assignments at most positions.
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- Luther Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, 84602, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, 4111 Libra Drive, 32816, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, 4110 Libra Drive, 32816, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Mt. San Jacinto College, 92583, San Jacinto, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, 84602, Provo, UT, USA
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Vosegaard T. Single-crystal NMR spectroscopy. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2021; 123:51-72. [PMID: 34078537 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2021.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Single-crystal (SC) NMR spectroscopy is a solid-state NMR method that has been used since the early days of NMR to study the magnitude and orientation of tensorial nuclear spin interactions in solids. This review first presents the field of SC NMR instrumentation, then provides a survey of software for analysis of SC NMR data, and finally it highlights selected applications of SC NMR in various fields of research. The aim of the last part is not to provide a complete review of all SC NMR literature but to provide examples that demonstrate interesting applications of SC NMR.
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- Thomas Vosegaard
- Department of Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 14, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Lu X, Huang C, Li M, Skomski D, Xu W, Yu L, Byrn SR, Templeton AC, Su Y. Molecular Mechanism of Crystalline-to-Amorphous Conversion of Pharmaceutical Solids from 19F Magic Angle Spinning NMR. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:5271-5283. [PMID: 32378905 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c02131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Crystalline and amorphous materials usually possess distinct physicochemical properties due to major variations in long-range and local molecular packings. Enhanced fundamental knowledge of the molecular details of crystalline-to-amorphous interconversions is necessary to correlate the intermolecular structure to material properties and functions. While crystal structures can be readily obtained by X-ray crystallography, the microstructure of amorphous materials has rarely been explored due to a lack of high-resolution techniques capable of probing local molecular structures. Moreover, there is increasing interest in understanding the molecular nature of amorphous solids in pharmaceutical sciences due to the widespread utilization of amorphous active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in pharmaceutical development for solubility and bioavailability enhancement. In this study, we explore multidimensional 13C and 19F magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR spectroscopy to study the molecular packing of amorphous posaconazole (POSA) in conjunction with the crystalline counterpart. Utilizing methods integrating homonuclear and heteronuclear 1H, 13C, and 19F correlation spectroscopy and atomic 19F-to-13C distance measurements, we identified the major differences in molecular packing between crystalline and amorphous POSA. The intermolecular "head-to-head" interaction along the molecule's major axis, as well as the "head-to-tail" molecular packing perpendicular to the major axis in POSA crystals, was recapitulated by MAS NMR. Furthermore, critical intermolecular distances in the crystal lattice were determined. Most importantly, the head-to-tail contact of two neighboring molecules was found to be preserved in amorphous POSA, suggesting localized molecular order, whereas crucial interactions for head-to-head packing are absent in the amorphous form resulting in long-range disorder. Our study, likely one of the first documented examples, provides molecular-level structural details to understand the molecular mechanism of crystalline-to-amorphous conversion of fluorine-containing drug substances occurring in drug processing and development and establish a high-resolution experimental protocol for investigating amorphous materials.
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- Xingyu Lu
- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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- Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States.,Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States.,Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Hodgkinson P. NMR crystallography of molecular organics. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 118-119:10-53. [PMID: 32883448 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2020.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Developments of NMR methodology to characterise the structures of molecular organic structures are reviewed, concentrating on the previous decade of research in which density functional theory-based calculations of NMR parameters in periodic solids have become widespread. With a focus on demonstrating the new structural insights provided, it is shown how "NMR crystallography" has been used in a spectrum of applications from resolving ambiguities in diffraction-derived structures (such as hydrogen atom positioning) to deriving complete structures in the absence of diffraction data. As well as comprehensively reviewing applications, the different aspects of the experimental and computational techniques used in NMR crystallography are surveyed. NMR crystallography is seen to be a rapidly maturing subject area that is increasingly appreciated by the wider crystallographic community.
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- Paul Hodgkinson
- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
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Holmes ST, Engl OG, Srnec MN, Madura JD, Quiñones R, Harper JK, Schurko RW, Iuliucci RJ. Chemical Shift Tensors of Cimetidine Form A Modeled with Density Functional Theory Calculations: Implications for NMR Crystallography. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:3109-3119. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Sean T. Holmes
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Physics, & Engineering, Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio 43952, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Center for Computational Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25755, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, United States
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Elliott AB, Versfeld G, Halling MD, Miller JS, Harper JK. Solid‐State
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C NMR Evidence for Long Multicenter Intradimer Bonding in Zwitterion‐like Structures. Chemistry 2020; 26:230-236. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201903099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2019] [Revised: 10/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Alexander B. Elliott
- Department of Chemistry University of Central Florida 4111 Libra Drive Orlando FL 32816 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Central Florida 4111 Libra Drive Orlando FL 32816 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Utah 315 S. 1400 E. Salt Lake City UT 84112-0850 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Utah 315 S. 1400 E. Salt Lake City UT 84112-0850 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Central Florida 4111 Libra Drive Orlando FL 32816 USA
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Czernek J, Brus J. Exploring Accuracy Limits of Predictions of the 1H NMR Chemical Shielding Anisotropy in the Solid State. Molecules 2019; 24:E1731. [PMID: 31058873 PMCID: PMC6539467 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24091731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2019] [Revised: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The 1H chemical shielding anisotropy (CSA) is an NMR parameter that is exquisitely sensitive to the local environment of protons in crystalline systems, but it is difficult to obtain it experimentally due to the need to concomitantly suppress other anisotropic interactions in the solid-state NMR (SSNMR) pulse sequences. The SSNMR measurements of the 1H CSA are particularly challenging if the fast magic-angle-spinning (MAS) is applied. It is thus important to confront the results of both the single-crystal (SC) and fast-MAS experiments with their theoretical counterparts. Here the plane-waves (PW) DFT calculations have been carried out using two functionals in order to precisely characterize the structures and the 1H NMR chemical shielding tensors (CSTs) of the solid forms of maleic, malonic, and citric acids, and of L-histidine hydrochloride monohydrate. The level of agreement between the PW DFT and either SC or fast-MAS SSNMR 1H CSA data has been critically compared. It has been found that for the eigenvalues of the 1H CSTs provided by the fast-MAS measurements, an accuracy limit of current PW DFT predictions is about two ppm in terms of the standard deviation of the linear regression model, and sources of this error have been thoroughly discussed.
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- Jiří Czernek
- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Heyrovsky Square 2, 16206 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Heyrovsky Square 2, 16206 Prague, Czech Republic.
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Hartman JD, Beran GJO. Accurate 13-C and 15-N molecular crystal chemical shielding tensors from fragment-based electronic structure theory. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2018; 96:10-18. [PMID: 30273904 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2018.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2018] [Revised: 09/14/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Standard nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy experiments measure isotropic chemical shifts, but measuring the chemical shielding anisotropy (CSA) tensor can provide additional insights into solid state chemical structures. Interpreting the principal components of these tensors is facilitated by first-principles chemical shielding tensor predictions. Here, the ability to predict molecular crystal CSA tensor components for 13C and 15N nuclei with fragment-based electronic structure techniques is explored. Similar to what has been found previously for isotropic chemical shifts, the benchmarking demonstrates that fragment-based techniques can accurately reproduce CSA tensor components. The use of hybrid density functionals like PBE0 or B3LYP provide higher accuracy than generalized gradient approximation functionals like PBE. Unlike for planewave density functional techniques, hybrid density functionals can be employed routinely with modest computational cost in fragment approaches. Finally, good consistency between the regression parameters used to map either isotropic shieldings or CSA tensor components is demonstrated, providing further evidence for the quality of the models and highlighting that models trained for isotropic shifts can also be applied to CSA tensor components.
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- Joshua D Hartman
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
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Kobayashi R, Amos RD, Reid DM, Collins MA. Application of the Systematic Molecular Fragmentation by Annihilation Method to ab Initio NMR Chemical Shift Calculations. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:9135-9141. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b09565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Rika Kobayashi
- ANU Supercomputer Facility, Leonard Huxley Building 56, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ANU Supercomputer Facility, Leonard Huxley Building 56, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Czernek J, Brus J. Theoretical investigations into the variability of the 15N solid-state NMR parameters within an antimicrobial peptide ampullosporin A. Physiol Res 2018; 67:S349-S356. [PMID: 30379555 DOI: 10.33549/physiolres.933976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The solid-state NMR measurements play an indispensable role in studies of interactions between biological membranes and peptaibols, which are amphipathic oligopeptides with a high abundance of alpha-aminobutyric acid (Aib). The solid-state NMR investigations are important in establishing the molecular models of the pore forming and antimicrobial properties of peptaibols, but rely on certain simplifications. Some of the underlying assumptions concern the parameters describing the 15N NMR chemical shielding tensor (CST) of the amide nitrogens in Aib and in conventional amino acids. Here the density functional theory (DFT) based calculations were applied to the known crystal structure of one of peptaibols, Ampullosporin A, in order to explicitly describe the variation of the 15N NMR parameters within its backbone. Based on the DFT computational data it was possible to verify the validity of the assumptions previously made about the differences between Aib and other amino acids in the isotropic part of the CST. Also the trends in the magnitudes and orientations of the anisotropic components of the CST, as revealed by the DFT calculations of the full periodic structure of Ampullosporin A, were thoroughly analyzed, and may be employed in future studies of peptaibols.
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- J Czernek
- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha 6, Czech Republic.
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Aliev AE, Bartók AP, Yates JR. Tin chemical shift anisotropy in tin dioxide: On ambiguity of CSA asymmetry derived from MAS spectra. SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 2018; 89:1-10. [PMID: 29202302 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2017.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2017] [Revised: 11/22/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Two different axial symmetries of the 119Sn chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) in tin dioxide with the asymmetry parameter (η) of 0 and 0.27 were reported previously based on the analysis of MAS NMR spectra. By analyzing the static powder pattern, we show that the 119Sn CSA is axially symmetric. A nearly axial symmetry and the principal axis system of the 119Sn chemical shift tensor in SnO2 were deduced from periodic scalar-relativistic density functional theory (DFT) calculations of NMR parameters. The implications of fast small-angle motions on CSA parameters were also considered, which could potentially lead to a CSA symmetry in disagreement with a crystal symmetry. Our analysis of experimental spectra using spectral simulations and iterative fittings showed that MAS spectra recorded at relatively high frequencies do not show sufficiently distinct features in order to distinguish CSAs with η ≈ 0 and η ≈ 0.4. The example of SnO2 shows that both the MAS lineshape and spinning sideband analyses may overestimate the η value by as much as ∼0.3 and ∼0.4, respectively. The results confirm that a static powder pattern must be analysed in order to improve the accuracy of the CSA asymmetry measurements. The measurements on SnO2 nanoparticles showed that the asymmetry parameter of the 119Sn CSA increases for nm-sized particles with a larger surface area compared to μm-sized particles. The increase of the η value for tin atoms near the surface in SnO2 was also confirmed by DFT calculations.
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- Abil E Aliev
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
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- Scientific Computing Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK
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