Improved magnetization Transfers among quadrupolar nuclei in two-dimensional homonuclear correlation NMR experiments applied to inorganic network structures

Abstract

We demonstrate that supercycles of previously introduced two-fold symmetry dipolar recoupling schemes may be utilized successfully in homonuclear correlation nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for probing proximities among half-integer spin quadrupolar nuclei in network materials undergoing magic-angle-spinning (MAS). These (SR21/2)M, (SR21/4)M, and (SR21/8)M recoupling sequences with M = 3 and M = 4 offer comparably efficient magnetization transfers in single-quantum-single-quantum (1Q-1Q) correlation NMR experiments under moderately fast MAS conditions, as demonstrated at 14.1 T and 24 kHz MAS in the contexts of 11B NMR on a Na2O-CaO-B2O3-SiO2 glass and 27Al NMR on the open framework aluminophosphate AlPO-CJ19 [(NH4)2Al4(PO4)4HPO4 H2O]. Numerically simulated magnetization transfers in spin-3/2 pairs revealed a progressively enhanced tolerance to resonance offsets and rf-amplitude errors of the recoupling pulses along the series (SR21/2)M