Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of local segmental dynamics of polyisoprene in dilute solution: nonlinear viscosity dependence

1990 ◽  
Vol 23 (14) ◽  
pp. 3520-3530 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Glowinkowski ◽  
Daniel J. Gisser ◽  
Mark D. Ediger

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (15) ◽  
pp. 2353-2359 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Benoit ◽  
C. Buisson ◽  
G. Choux

Nuclear magnetic resonance and certain conductivity data are reported for solutions of perchloric and fluorosulfuric acids in sulfolane. Additional measurements were made on solutions of disulfuric and hexachloroantimony (V) acids. HSbCl6 is a strong acid in this weakly basic dipolar aprotic solvent. HClO4, HSO3F, and H2S2O7 are incompletely dissociated with K = 10−2.7, 10−3.3, and ~ 10−5, respectively. The acid strength in dilute solution in sulfolane follows the order HClO4 > HSO3F > H2S2O7, which differs from that known in H2SO4 which is a strongly associated polar protic solvent.





1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 2370-2374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schaefer ◽  
Lina B.-L. Lee

The 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of isobutylbenzene as a dilute solution in CS2/C6D12 at 300 K is analyzed. The gauche conformer (statistical weight 2) predominates, as was previously shown for a jet-cooled stream of this compound. The apparent twofold barrier to rotation about the Csp2—Csp3 bond is 10.5 ± 0.5 kJ/mol, as must be the case for the analogous gauche conformer of n-propylbenzene. The internal barriers are compared for ethylbenzene, gauche isobutylbenzene, and neopentylbenzene. AM1 and STO-3G MO computations of the conformer stabilities and barriers are reported, the latter being in better agreement with experiment.









Author(s):  
M.J. Hennessy ◽  
E. Kwok

Much progress in nuclear magnetic resonance microscope has been made in the last few years as a result of improved instrumentation and techniques being made available through basic research in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies for medicine. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was first observed in the hydrogen nucleus in water by Bloch, Purcell and Pound over 40 years ago. Today, in medicine, virtually all commercial MRI scans are made of water bound in tissue. This is also true for NMR microscopy, which has focussed mainly on biological applications. The reason water is the favored molecule for NMR is because water is,the most abundant molecule in biology. It is also the most NMR sensitive having the largest nuclear magnetic moment and having reasonable room temperature relaxation times (from 10 ms to 3 sec). The contrast seen in magnetic resonance images is due mostly to distribution of water relaxation times in sample which are extremely sensitive to the local environment.



Author(s):  
Paul C. Lauterbur

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging can reach microscopic resolution, as was noted many years ago, but the first serious attempt to explore the limits of the possibilities was made by Hedges. Resolution is ultimately limited under most circumstances by the signal-to-noise ratio, which is greater for small radio receiver coils, high magnetic fields and long observation times. The strongest signals in biological applications are obtained from water protons; for the usual magnetic fields used in NMR experiments (2-14 tesla), receiver coils of one to several millimeters in diameter, and observation times of a number of minutes, the volume resolution will be limited to a few hundred or thousand cubic micrometers. The proportions of voxels may be freely chosen within wide limits by varying the details of the imaging procedure. For isotropic resolution, therefore, objects of the order of (10μm) may be distinguished.Because the spatial coordinates are encoded by magnetic field gradients, the NMR resonance frequency differences, which determine the potential spatial resolution, may be made very large. As noted above, however, the corresponding volumes may become too small to give useful signal-to-noise ratios. In the presence of magnetic field gradients there will also be a loss of signal strength and resolution because molecular diffusion causes the coherence of the NMR signal to decay more rapidly than it otherwise would. This phenomenon is especially important in microscopic imaging.



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