文摘
Under magic-angle spinning (MAS), the 2D-MELODRAMA pulse sequence reintroduces homonuclear dipolar couplings, thereby allowing internuclear correlations to be determined. The evolution of thedensity matrix under the average Hamiltonian established under the 2D-MELODRAMA pulse sequence hasbeen evaluated, and closed-form expressions for the dependence of cross-peak intensity as a function of thedipolar mixing time are presented. In the case of sodium proprionate-2-3-13C2 (>90% 13C) it is shown thatanalysis of cross-peak intensity vs mixing times allows estimates of dipolar coupling with an accuracycomparable with the 1D-MELODRAMA experiment. The potential for simultaneous multiple internuclearcorrelations and distance measurements in spin systems for which there is not a large difference in resonancefrequencies is illustrated with glucose-13C6 (36% uniformly labeled). It is shown that multiple correlations foreach ring carbon can be detected and good estimates of the corresponding internuclear distances can be extractedfrom analysis of cross-peak intensities as a function of the dipolar recoupling time.