The structural heterogeneity of water-extractable arabinoxylan (WE-AX) impacts wheat flour functionality. 1H diffusion-ordered (DOSY) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy revealed structur...

1-Methyl-1H-imidazol-3-ium 2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorophenolate [mim]C6F5O as a novel nano ionic liquid was designed, synthesized and characterized by using various techniques such as Fourier transform spectroscopy infrared (FT-IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), ener...

Biodiesel, fatty acid methyl esters derived from vegetable oils, is a well-established alternative to petroleum diesel. We have developed a rapid H diffusion-ordered nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (DOSY NMR)method to resolve mixtures of mono-, di-, and triacyglycerols alongwith their methyl esters. Because of the differences in diffusion coefficients between the starting materials (tri...

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy provides non-invasive and non-destructive access to the chemistry of human tissue in situ. Two studies presented in this issue of the Journal [1, 2] apply this new technique on skeletal muscle metabolism in patients with chronic lung disease. In the 1940s, E. Purcell and F. Bloch discovered that electromagnetic radio-frequency energy could be used to inte...

Various empirical prefreezing protocols have been used to facilitate cryopreservation of dormant buds from woody plants. The objective of this research was to determine the quantity of water remaining in liquid phase, under different prefreezing conditions using pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of dormant apple (Malus domestica Mill.) buds from three cultivars. During prefreezing,...

Several cobalt complexes catalyze the evolution of hydrogen from acidic solutions, both homogeneously and at electrodes. The detailed molecular mechanisms of these transformations remain unresolved, largely owing to the fact that key reactive intermediates have eluded detection. One method of stabilizing reactive intermediates involves minimizing the overall reaction free-energy change. Here, w...

The dynamics of proteins plays a central role in their activity, including enzymatic catalysis and allosteric communication. Many advances have been made in recent years in the characterization of the equilibrium fluctuations of proteins through experimental and computational methods. We present evidence that the use of molecular dynamics simulations with ensemble-averaged structural restraints...

Dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enables high-sensitivity solution-phase NMR experiments on long-lived nuclear spin species such as (15)N and (13)C. This report explores certain features arising in solution-state (1)H NMR upon polarizing low-γ nuclear species. Following solid-state hyperpolarization of both (13)C and (1)H, solution-phase (1)H NMR experiments on dissolved samples r...

Levels of the high-energy phosphate-containing compounds, ATP and creatine phosphate, and of inorganic phosphate (Pi) were measured as a function of position in the cardiac cycle. Measurements were made on isolated, perfused, working rat hearts through the use of gated 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Levels of ATP and creatine phosphate were found to vary during the cardiac cycle a...