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Eichhorn TR, Parker AJ, Josten F, Müller C, Scheuer J, Steiner JM, Gierse M, Handwerker J, Keim M, Lucas S, Qureshi MU, Marshall A, Salhov A, Quan Y, Binder J, Jahnke KD, Neumann P, Knecht S, Blanchard JW, Plenio MB, Jelezko F, Emsley L, Vassiliou CC, Hautle P, Schwartz I. Hyperpolarized Solution-State NMR Spectroscopy with Optically Polarized Crystals. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:2511-2519. [PMID: 35113568 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c09119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Nuclear spin hyperpolarization provides a promising route to overcome the challenges imposed by the limited sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance. Here we demonstrate that dissolution of spin-polarized pentacene-doped naphthalene crystals enables transfer of polarization to target molecules via intermolecular cross-relaxation at room temperature and moderate magnetic fields (1.45 T). This makes it possible to exploit the high spin polarization of optically polarized crystals, while mitigating the challenges of its transfer to external nuclei. With this method, we inject the highly polarized mixture into a benchtop NMR spectrometer and observe the polarization dynamics for target 1H nuclei. Although the spectra are radiation damped due to the high naphthalene magnetization, we describe a procedure to process the data to obtain more conventional NMR spectra and extract the target nuclei polarization. With the entire process occurring on a time scale of 1 min, we observe NMR signals enhanced by factors between -200 and -1730 at 1.45 T for a range of small molecules.
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany.,Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany.,Institute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany.,Institute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany.,Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Givat Ram, Israel
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany.,Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany.,Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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Merritt ME, Harrison C, Mander W, Malloy CR, Sherry AD. Dipolar cross-relaxation modulates signal amplitudes in the (1)H NMR spectrum of hyperpolarized [(13)C]formate. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2007; 189:280-5. [PMID: 17945520 PMCID: PMC2180399 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2007] [Revised: 09/14/2007] [Accepted: 09/14/2007] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The asymmetry in the doublet of a spin coupled to hyperpolarized (13)C has been used previously to measure the initial polarization of (13)C. We tested the hypothesis that a single observation of the (1)H NMR spectrum of hyperpolarized (13)C formate monitors (13)C polarization. Depending on the microwave frequency during the polarization process, in-phase or out-of-phase doublets were observed in the (1)H NMR spectrum. Even in this simple two-spin system, (13)C polarization was not reflected in the relative area of the J(CH) doublet components due to strong heteronuclear cross-relaxation. The Solomon equations were used to model the proton signal as a function of time after polarization and to estimate (13)C polarization from the (1)H NMR spectra.
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- Matthew E Merritt
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8568, USA.
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Granwehr J, Urban JT, Trabesinger AH, Pines A. NMR detection using laser-polarized xenon as a dipolar sensor. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2005; 176:125-39. [PMID: 16005649 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2005.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2005] [Revised: 05/16/2005] [Accepted: 05/16/2005] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Hyperpolarized (129)Xe can be used as a sensor to indirectly detect NMR spectra of heteronuclei that are neither covalently bound nor necessarily in direct contact with the Xe atoms, but coupled through long-range intermolecular dipole-dipole interactions. To reintroduce long-range dipolar couplings the sample symmetry has to be broken. This can be done either by using an asymmetric sample arrangement, or by breaking the symmetry of the spin magnetization with field gradient pulses. Experiments are performed where only a small fraction of the available (129)Xe magnetization is used for each point, so that a single batch of xenon suffices for the point-by-point acquisition of a heteronuclear NMR spectrum. Examples with (1)H as the analyte nucleus show that these methods have the potential to obtain spectra with a resolution that is high enough to determine homonuclear J couplings. The applicability of this technique with remote detection is discussed.
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- J Granwehr
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Hyperpolarized gases have found a steadily increasing range of applications in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and NMR imaging (MRI). They can be regarded as a new class of MR contrast agent or as a way of greatly enhancing the temporal resolution of the measurement of processes relevant to areas as diverse as materials science and biomedicine. We concentrate on the properties and applications of hyperpolarized xenon. This review discusses the physics of producing hyperpolarization, the NMR-relevant properties of 129Xe, specific MRI methods for hyperpolarized gases, applications of xenon to biology and medicine, polarization transfer to other nuclear species and low-field imaging.
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- Ana-Maria Oros
- Institute of Medicine, Research Centre Jiilich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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