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Long-lived Nuclear Hyperpolarization of Methyl Groups

Project overview

This project consists of the hyperpolarization of long-lived states in methyl groups and their isotopomers. The project makes use of solution NMR and dissolution-DNP equipment.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Endofullerenes
Connect with Malcolm

Email: mhl@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Richard Brown

Professor of Organic Chemistry
Research interests
  • Organic synthesis
  • Total synthesis of natural products
  • Asymmetric synthesis
Connect with Richard

Email: R.C.Brown@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Polarization transfer via field sweeping in parahydrogen-enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance
James Eills, John W. Blanchard, Teng Wu, Christian Bengs, Julia Hollenbach, Dmitry Budker & Malcolm H. Levitt, 2019, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(17), 1-9
DOI: 10.1063/1.5089486
Type: article
Excitation of singlet-triplet coherences in pairs of nearly-equivalent spins
Kirill F. Sheberstov, Alexey S. Kiryutin, Christian Bengs, Joseph T. Hill-Cousins, Lynda J. Brown, Richard C.D. Brown, Giuseppe Pileio, Malcolm H. Levitt, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya & Konstantin L. Ivanov, 2019, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(11), 6087-6100
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP00451C
Type: article
Experimental evidence for the role of paramagnetic oxygen concentration on the decay of long-lived nuclear spin order
2019, RSC Advances, 9(40), 23418-23424
DOI: 10.1039/c9ra03748a
Type: article
Hyperpolarized fumarate via parahydrogen
Barbara Ripka, James Eills, Hana Kourilova, Markus Leutzsch, Malcolm H. Levitt & Kerstin Munnemann, 2018, Chemical Communications, 54, 12246-12249
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc06636a
Type: article
SpinDynamica
Christian Bengs & Malcolm H. Levitt, 2018, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 56(6), 374-414
DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4642
Type: article
Testing signal enhancement mechanisms in the dissolution NMR of acetone
Javier Alonso-Valdesueiro, Stuart Elliott, Christian Bengs, Benno Meier & Malcolm H. Levitt, 2018, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 286, 158-162
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.12.009
Type: article
Hyperpolarized long-lived nuclear spin states in monodeuterated methyl groups
Stuart J. Elliott, Benno Meier, Basile Vuichoud, Gabriele Stevanato, Lynda J. Brown, Javier Alonso-Valdesueiro, Lyndon Emsley, Sami Jannin & Malcolm H. Levitt, 2018, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(15), 9755-9759
DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00253c
Type: article