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- Title
An Alignment Medium for Measuring Residual Dipolar Couplings in Pure DMSO: Liquid Crystals from Graphene Oxide Grafted with Polymer Brushes.
- Authors
Zong, Wen; Li, Gao‐Wei; Cao, Jiang‐Ming; Lei, Xinxiang; Hu, Mao‐Lin; Sun, Han; Griesinger, Christian; Tan, Ren Xiang
- Abstract
Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) have attracted attention in light of their great impact on the structural elucidation of organic molecules. However, the effectiveness of RDC measurements is limited by the shortage of alignment media compatible with widely used organic solvents, such as DMSO. Herein, we present the first liquid crystal (LC) based alignment medium that is compatible with pure DMSO, thus enabling RDC measurements of polar and intermediate polarity molecules. The liquid crystals were obtained by grafting polymer brushes onto graphene oxide (GO) using free radical polymerization. The resulting new medium offers several advantages, such as absence of background signals, narrow line shapes, and tunable alignment. Importantly, this medium is compatible with π-conjugated molecules. Moreover, sonication-induced fragmentation can reduce the size of GO sheets. The resulting anisotropic medium has moderate alignment strength, which is a prerequisite for an accurate RDC measurement.
- Subjects
NUCLEAR magnetic resonance spectroscopy; GRAPHENE oxide; DIMETHYL sulfoxide; LIQUID crystals; POLYMERIZATION; SONICATION; FRAGMENTATION reactions
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2016, Vol 128, Issue 11, p3754
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201511435