Picazo-Frutos Román, Sheberstov Kirill F, Blanchard John W, Van Dyke Erik, Reh Moritz, Sjoelander Tobias, Pines Alexander, Budker Dmitry, Barskiy Danila A
Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
Nat Commun. 2024 May 27;15(1):4487. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48390-2.
Zero- to ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance (ZULF NMR) allows molecular structure elucidation via measurement of electron-mediated spin-spin J-couplings. This study examines zero-field J-spectra from molecules with quadrupolar nuclei, exemplified by solutions of various isotopologues of ammonium cations. The spectra reveal differences between various isotopologues upon extracting precise J-coupling values from pulse-acquire measurements. A primary isotope effect, mHz, is deduced by analysis of the proton-nitrogen J-coupling ratios. This study points toward further experiments with symmetric cations containing quadrupolar nuclei, promising applications in biomedicine, energy storage, and benchmarking quantum chemistry calculations.
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