Quantitative Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Methods For Inorganic Materials

Techniques of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are constantly being extended to a more diverse range of materials, pressing into service an ever-expanding range of nuclides including some previously considered too intractable to provide usable results. At the same time, new developments in both hardware and software are being introduced and refined. This book covers the most important of these new developments. With sections addressed to non-specialist researchers (providing accessible answers to the most common questions about the theory and practice of NMR asked by novices) as well as a more specialised and up-to-date treatment of the most important areas of inorganic materials research to which NMR has application, this book should be useful to NMR users whatever their level of expertise and whatever inorganic materials they wish to study.

Solid State NMR A thorough and comprehensive textbook covering the theoretical background, experimental approaches, and major applications of solid-state NMR spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful non-destructive technique capable of providing information about the molecular structure and dynamics of molecules. Alongside solution-state NMR, a well-established technique to study chemical structures and investigate physico-chemical properties of molecules in solutions, solid-state NMR (SSNMR) offers many exciting possibilities for the analysis of solid and soft materials across scientific fields. SSNMR shows unique capabilities for a detailed investigation of structural and dynamic properties of materials over wide space and time ranges. For this reason, and thanks to significant advances in the past several years, the application of SSNMR to materials is rapidly increasing in disciplines such as chemistry, physics, and materials and life sciences. Solid State NMR: Principles, Methods, and Applications offers a systematic introduction to the theory, methodological concepts, and major experimental methods of SSMR spectroscopy. Exploring the unique potential of SSNMR for the structural and dynamic characterization of soft and either amorphous or crystalline solid materials, this comprehensive textbook provides foundational knowledge and recent developments of SSNMR, covering physical and theoretical background, experimental methods, and applications to pharmaceuticals, polymers, inorganic and hybrid materials, liquid crystals, and model membranes. Written by two expert authors to ensure a clear and consistent presentation of the subject, this textbook: Includes a brief introduction to the historical aspects and broad theoretical background of solid-state NMR spectroscopy Provides helpful illustrations to explain the various SSNMR concepts and methods Features accessible descriptive text with self-consistent use of quantum mechanics Covers the experimental aspects of SSNMR spectroscopy and in particular a description of many useful pulse sequences Contains references to relevant literature Solid State NMR: Principles, Methods, and Applications is the ideal textbook for university courses on SSNMR, advanced spectroscopies, and a valuable single-volume reference for spectroscopists, chemists, and researchers in the field of materials.

Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance now offers a wide variety of methods for characterization of materials of different compositions over a wide range of experimental conditions (temperatures, pressures, etc.) Both simple and sophisticated pulse sequences enable one to selectively probe and quantify physical properties of interest. This book mainly dwells on the practical aspects of selected topics and uses a largely non-mathematical, although extensively referenced, approach to the introduction of solid state NMR concepts. Chapter 1 : Principles of Solid State NMRChapter 2 : Introduction to Pulse SequencesChapter 3 : DecouplingChapter 4 : Quantitative AnalysisChapter 5 : ArtifactsChapter 6 : Line Broadening MechanismsChapter 7 : Resolution EnhancementChapter 8 : Variable Temperature

This book is for those familiar with solution-state NMR who are encountering solid-state NMR for the first time. It presents the current understanding and applications of solid-state NMR with a rigorous but readable approach, making it easy for someone who merely wishes to gain an overall impression of the subject without details. This dual requirement is met through careful construction of the material within each chapter. The book is divided into two parts: "Fundamentals" and "Further Applications." The section on Fundamentals contains relatively long chapters that deal with the basic theory and practice of solid-state NMR. The essential differences and extra scope of solid-state NMR over solution-state is dealt with in an introductory chapter. The basic techniques that all chapters rely on are collected into a second chapter to avoid unnecessary repetition later. Remaining chapters in the "Fundamentals" part deal with the major areas of solid-state NMR which all solid-state NMR spectroscopists should know about. Each begins with an overview of the topic that puts the chapter in context. The basic principles upon which the techniques in the chapter rely are explained in a separate section. Each of these chapters exemplifies the principles and techniques with the applications most commonly found in current practice. The "Further Applications" section contains a series of shorter chapters which describe the NMR techniques used in other, more specific areas. The basic principles upon which these techniques rely will be expounded only if not already in the Fundamentals part.

Preparation and characterization of inorganic materials is a crucial practice because understanding the relationship between structure and property is important for improving current performance and developing novel materials. Many metal centers in technologically and industrially important materials are unreceptive low- quadrupolar nuclei (i.e., possessing low natural abundance, low NMR frequencies and large quadrupole moments) and they usually give rise to very broad NMR resonances and low signal-to-noise ratios, making it difficult to acquire their solid-state NMR spectra. This thesis focuses on the characterization of inorganic materials using solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy at very high magnetic field of 21.1 T in combination with quantum chemical calculations for computational modeling. In the first part of this thesis, 67Zn and 17O SSNMR studies of several microporous materials were reported. The results of 67Zn SSNMR studies from several important metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), in particular, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) were presented. 67Zn SSNMR spectroscopy was used to gain structural information regarding the desolvation process in MOF-5. Furthermore, 67Zn SSNMR spectroscopy were utilized to study the host-guest interactions in ZIF-8 loaded with different guest molecules. Static 67Zn SSNMR spectra of microporous zinc phosphites (ZnP) and zinc phosphates (ZnPO) were also acquired at natural abundance. The Gaussian calculation results on a model cluster for ZnP indicate that Zn-O bond length is the most dominant factor to the observed quadrupolar coupling constant (CQ) among other geometric parameters around Zn centres. The local structures of the framework oxygen sites in molecular sieve SAPO-34 were directly probed by several 17O SSNMR techniques. The involvement of water vapor during the SAPO-34 formation in dry-gel conversion (DGC) synthesis was also investigated. In the second part, 91Zr and 33S SSNMR spectra of layered zirconium phosphates (ZrP) and transition metal disulfides (MS2) were obtained. The empirical correlations between NMR parameters and various structural parameters were used for obtaining partial structural information in Li+ and Co(NH3)63+ exchanged layered ZrP. For a series of closely related MS2 materials, the observed differences in the CQ(33S) values were rationalized by considering the difference in their geometrical arrangements. The final part of this thesis featured two examples of SSNMR spectroscopy of exotic nuclei in some interesting inorganic materials. (i) The experimental 135/137Ba SSNMR spectroscopy and theoretical studies of -BBO, an important non-linear optical (NLO) material, indicate that the true crystal structure of -BBO is R3c space group rather than R3. (ii) An ultrahigh field natural abundance 73Ge SSNMR study of two representative germanium containing materials [GeCl2-dioxane and GePh4] demonstrated that acquiring 73Ge wideline NMR spectra of germanium compounds where the Ge experiences an extremely large quadrupolar interaction is feasible and that the small 73Ge chemical shielding anisotropy (CSA) can be directly measured.

Since the introduction of FT-NMR spectroscopy around five decades ago, NMR has achieved significant advances in hardware and methodologies, accompanied with the enhancement of spectral resolution and signal sensitivity. Rapid developments in the polymers field mean that accurate and quantitative characterization of polymer structures and dynamics is the keystone for precisely regulating and controlling the physical and chemical properties of the polymer. This book specifically focuses on NMR investigation of complex polymers for the polymer community as well as NMR spectroscopists, and will push the development of both fields. It covers the latest advances, for example high field DNP and ultrafast MAS methodologies, and show how these novel NMR methods characterize various synthetic and natural polymers.

NMR spectroscopy has become one of the most powerful methods for the study of the structure and dynamics of solid-state materials. NMR has thus become an important tool, not only in the study of existent cements, but also in the development of new cement-based materials. This volume, based on the proceedings of the second international conference on the NMR Spectroscopy of Cement Based Materials held in Bergamo, Italy, in June 1996, presents the only international overview of the state of the art in the use of NMR in the study of cement-based materials. - This book is of particular interest to all those working in the areas of cement science, material science, solid state chemsitry, analytical chemistry, spectroscopy and those areas of physics engaged in the study of materials.