Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.129, No.40, 12076-12076, 2007
Chemical shift correlation NMR spectroscopy with indirect detection in fast rotating solids: Studies of organically functionalized mesoporous silicas
The first indirectly detected C-13-H-1 solid-state NMR correlation spectra of species bound to a surface are reported. The experiments were performed at 14.1 T under fast (40 kHz) MAS. The sensitivity gain was demonstrated on a mesoporous silica sample containing approximately 300 mu g of covalently bound allyl groups, in the absence of templating molecules and without isotope enrichment. A well-resolved two-dimensional spectrum was acquired in 15 min, which is more than 10 times faster than using direct detection of C-13 nuclei.