Eventova Varvara – @evarvara24
Crystalline forms of medicinal compounds in the form of crystalline solvates have increased solubility in water and can be used to improve therapeutic properties. When obtaining solvates, the choice of solvent is important. In this work, the predominant conformations of arbidol in scCO2+2% DMSO-d6 were determined by NMR and X-Ray methods. The results showed the promise of using scCO2 as an alternativevto organic solvents.
Sakshi Bhagat – @sakszi
Being the most dynamic component of majority of biological processes solvent plays a crucial role in changing the protein’s conformation in the system. The structural evolution of protein in various media, such as co-solvents, electrolytes, and others indicates existence of various intra- and intermolecular interactions that are responsible for maintaining protein stability. In the present study we focussed on the spin-lattice relaxation of deuterium nuclei present in co-solvents deciphering conformational changes in β-LG at variable concentration of co-solvent at a neutral pH. Β-LG is a milk protein with 162 Amino acids and is found abundantly in milk and is one the most extensively studied β-sheet protein. Presently, tri-fluorethanol (TFE) and Acetonitrile (ACN) are the two organic solvents under investigation. Spin-lattice relaxation rates of 2H nuclei can provide solitary insights into time dependent conformational fluctuation of β-LG from beta sheet to the α-helix structure.
Konstantin Belov – @SCFsci
Determination of the predominant conformation of small molecules of drug in solution is one of the fundamental tasks of modern pharmaceutical and physical chemistry. Our research group “Fluid State NMR” has proposed a number of technical and methodological ways to solve this problem in the supercritical fluid environment.
Adolfo Botana – @botana
Diffusion-Ordered SpectroscopY is an NMR method that requires performing a number of steps to acquire a good quality dataset. Here we demonstrate an approach to automatically setup the experiment parameters by prediction the diffusion behaviour using the SEGWE equation and automatically evaluating the presence of convection.
Jean-Paul Heeb – @jpheeb
We have been able to reliably chemical shift scale NMR spectra from 500 to 50 MHz for small molecule systems undergoing dynamic exchange (atropisomers). Using this, we can observe coalescence at lower temperatures, plot Eyring graphs and estimate activation parameters with smaller uncertainties than VTNMR alone.
Mummidivarapu Varkrishna – @VarkrishnaM
The concept of photocatalytic water splitting is revolutionary however the applications aren’t so feasible to scale up. This research area has largely been dominated by the inorganic materials.However, organic ones are included every now and then. But the extent is less. The exploration and preparation of composites more based on the organic substances whereas the inorganic ones can be always supporting is a huge ocean of possibilities. And NMR is quite a powerful technique to explore it!
Orr Simon Lusky – @ItIsLusk
We present a new solid state NMR method we developed for studying biological macromolecules called ‘Pulse induced resonance with angular dependent total enhancement’ (PIRATE). We demonstrate a new resonance condition, and the application on finding hydrogen bond patterns in intact viral RNA harvested directly from the MS2 bacteriophage.
Xinyao Xiang – @xxiang2022
The nanoparticle-assisted NMR spin relaxation (NASR) method measures the enhancement in transverse spin relaxation in the presence of slowly tumbling nanoparticles. It uncovers protein internal motions on the previously unobservable nanosecond to microsecond regime. We recently extended our NASR method to methyl-side chains using 2H or 13C spin relaxation.
Sven Bodenstedt – @SvenBodenstedt
We will show procedures of error-tolerant, fast and general spin control of heteronuclear spin systems in zero to low-field environments. Experimental examples include dynamical decoupling of spin decoherence pathways as well as for optimized selective rotations of different spin species.
Nikita Rao – @raoniki96
Soil is a vital component of our ecosystem and soil organic matter (SOM) is the key to a healthy soil. We aim to improve the sensitivity, resolution and instrumentation of NMR and use the results to study the impact of various environmental and other factors on the soil.
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