13C Chemical shifts, longitudinal relaxation times and
some nuclear Overhauser enhancement factors of the individual carbon atoms in
the chloroplast lipid, 1,2-diacyl-3-(6-sulpho-α-quinovosyl)-sn-glycerol (sl), have been
measured in the three solvents: methanol[D4], chloroform[D] and
water[D2]. Correlation times for the individual carbon atoms
calculated from these results have been interpreted in terms of different
secondary structures: a monomeric structure in methanol[D4], an
inverted micellar structure in chloroform[D] and a bilayer vesicular structure
in water[D2]. Substituent shift parameters have been
determined for the sulphonic acid group from a series of alkanesulphonic acids
and these have been used in the 13C chemical shift assignments in sl and a series of model compounds.