A low-cost strategy for $^{43}$Ca solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Alan Wong (1) , Pedro M. Aguiar (1) , Thibault Charpentier (1) , Dimitris Sakellariou (1)

1 IRAMIS - Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay

Calcium-43 is a notoriously insensitive probe for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) due to its low natural abundance and small magnetic moment. Up until today, the few performed $^{43}$Ca solid-state NMR studies used either highly expensive $^{43}$Ca-enriched samples, or time consuming experiments on bulk natural abundance samples. We introduce the application of a magic-angle spinning coil (MACS) detector for a low-cost approach to $^{43}$Ca NMR spectroscopy of solid materials with high detection sensitivity. We demonstrate 1D and 2D $^{43}$Ca NMR spectra of a 1 mg $^{43}$Ca-enriched sample. The sample cost is about 150 €. The effect of off-resonance MACS is also presented here.

Domains: Chemical Sciences; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Chemical Physics [physics.chem-ph]

Alan Wong, Pedro M. Aguiar, Thibault Charpentier, Dimitris Sakellariou. A low-cost strategy for $^{43}$Ca solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Chemical Science, 2011, 2, pp.815 - 818. ⟨10.1039/C0SC00609B⟩. ⟨cea-00854020⟩