Effects of biradical deuteration on the performance of DNP: towards better performing polarizing agents
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Effects of biradical deuteration on the performance of DNP: towards better performing polarizing agents Perras, F.A., et al., Effects of biradical deuteration on the performance of DNP: towards better performing polarizing agents. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2016. 18(1): p. 65-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26619055 We study the effects of the deuteration of biradical polarizing agents on the efficiency of dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) via the cross-effect. To this end, we synthesized a series of bTbK and TOTAPol biradicals with systematically increased deuterium substitution. The deuteration increases the radicals' relaxation time, thus contributing to a higher saturation factor and larger DNP enhancement, and reduces the pool of protons within the so-called spin diffusion barrier. Notably, we report that full or partial deuteration leads to improved DNP enhancement factors in standard samples, but also slows down the build-up of hyperpolarization. Improvements in DNP enhancements factors of up to 70% and time savings of up to 38% are obtained upon full deuteration. It is foreseen that this approach may be applied to other DNP polarizing agents thus enabling further sensitivity improvements. Go to The DNP-NMR Blog for more info. |
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