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- Title
Paramagnetic Relaxation Agents for Enhancing Temporal Resolution and Sensitivity in Multinuclear FlowNMR Spectroscopy.
- Authors
Bara‐Estaún, Alejandro; Harder, Marie C.; Lyall, Catherine L.; Lowe, John P.; Suturina, Elizaveta; Hintermair, Ulrich
- Abstract
Sensitivity in FlowNMR spectroscopy for reaction monitoring often suffers from low levels of pre‐magnetisation due to limited residence times of the sample in the magnetic field. While this in‐flow effect is tolerable for high sensitivity nuclei such as 1H and 19F, it significantly reduces the signal‐to‐noise ratio in 31P and 13C spectra, making FlowNMR impractical for low sensititvity nuclei at low concentrations. Paramagnetic relaxation agents (PRAs), which enhance polarisation and spin‐lattice relaxation, could eliminate the adverse in‐flow effect and improve the signal‐to‐noise ratio. Herein, [Co(acac)3], [Mn(acac)3], [Fe(acac)3], [Cr(acac)3], [Ni(acac)2]3, [Gd(tmhd)3] and [Cr(tmhd)3] are investigated for their effectiveness in improving signal intensity per unit time in FlowNMR applications under the additional constraint of chemical inertness towards catalytically active transition metal complexes. High‐spin Cr(III) acetylacetonates emerged as the most effective compounds, successfully reducing 31P T1 values four‐ to five‐fold at PRA concentrations as low as 10 mM without causing adverse line broadening. Whereas [Cr(acac)3] showed signs of chemical reactivity with a mixture of triphenylphosphine, triphenylphosphine oxide and triphenylphosphate over the course of several hours at 80° C, the bulkier [Cr(tmhd)3] was stable and equally effective as a PRA under these conditions. Compatibility with a range of representative transition metal complexes often used in homogeneous catalysis has been investigated, and application of [Cr(tmhd)3] in significantly improving 1H and 31P{1H} FlowNMR data quality in a Rh‐catalysed hydroformylation reaction has been demonstrated. With the PRA added, 13C relaxation times were reduced more than six‐fold, allowing quantitative reaction monitoring of substrate consumption and product formation by 13C{1H} FlowNMR spectroscopy at natural abundance.
- Subjects
TRANSITION metal complexes; SPIN-lattice relaxation; ELECTRON paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; HYDROFORMYLATION; SPECTROMETRY; HOMOGENEOUS catalysis; SIGNAL-to-noise ratio
- Publication
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2023, Vol 29, Issue 38, p1
- ISSN
0947-6539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/chem.202300215