15N measurement

Hantzsch s proposal is consistent with characteristic infrared vibration frequencies of syn- and a fr-diazoates, suitably labeled with 15N, measured by Kiibler and Liittke (1963) and by an X-ray structure determination of a sy -diazoate by Alcock et al. (1980b). It is appropriate, therefore, to replace the syn/anti by the (Z/E) nomenclature for isomers (Sec. 7.1)... 

Handley, L.L., Austin, A.T., Robinson, D., Scrimgeour, C.M, Raven, J.A., Heaton, T.H.E., Schmidt, S., Stewart, G.R. (1999). The 15N natural abundance(815N) of ecosystem samples reflects measures of water availability. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol. 26, pp.185-199. 

Rotational-echo double-resonance (REDOR)(75,79) is a new solid-state NMR technique which is sensitive to through-space carbon-nitrogen interactions between selectively 13C and 15N-enriched sites separated by up to 5A (20-22). The parameter directly measured in a REDOR experiment is the heteronuclear dipolar coupling constant DCN, which is in itself proportional to the inverse third power of the intemuclear distance, rCN. It is this dependence on (icn)3 which accounts both for REDOR s ability to accurately measure short distances and its insensitivity to longer-range interactions. As a technique which can probe, in detail, intermolecular interactions over a distance range of 5A, REDOR is well suited to studying the distribution of small selectively-labeled molecules in polymer delivery systems. 

An advantage of NMR spectroscopy is the analysis of protein dynamics. Measurement and analysis of the relaxation parameters R1 R2, and the 15N NOE of 15N-labeled proteins leads to an order parameter (S2) that can describe the relative mobility of the backbone of the protein. Both collagenase-1 and stromelysin-1 have been studied either as inhibited complexes or the free protein [19, 52], Stromleysin-1 was studied with inhibitors binding to prime or nonprime subsites. Presence or absence of inhibitors in the nonprime sites had minor effects on the highly ordered structure of residues in these subsites, which are in contact with the... 

Yuan P, Marshall VP, Petzold GL, Poorman RA, Stockman BJ. Dynamics of stromelysin/inhibitor interactions studied by 15N NMR relaxation measurements Comparison of ligand binding to the SrS3 and S -Sy subsites. J Biomol NMR 1999 15 55-64. 

The concept of molecular structure implies a reduction in the freedom of motion for the involved atoms. Thus an indirect strategy for identifying structured segments is to search for restricted motion for contiguous sets of amino acid residues. Relaxation of the 15N nucleus in the peptide bond provides a quantitative measure of the rates and angular range of motion experienced by individual amino acids under equilibrium conditions (Palmer, 2001). 

Backbone dynamics are most commonly investigated by measurement of 15N T and T% relaxation times and the fyH -15N NOE in uniformly 15N-labeled protein. To circumvent problems associated with the limited dispersion of the NMR spectra of unfolded proteins, the relaxation and NOE data are generally measured using 2D HSQC-based methods (Farrow et al., 1994 Palmer et al., 1991). 

The 15N chemical shifts measured for the Schiff base being a derivative of gossypol [7] and L-phenylalanine methyl ester equal —243.7 ppm in CDC13 solution and —237.5 in solid state (relative to external... 

Deuterium isotope effects on 15N chemical shift in CDC13 solution as well as in solid state were measured for a series of symmetrical and unsymmetrical di-Schiff bases being derivatives of fra s-l,2-diaminocy-clohexane and various aromatic ort/io-hydroxy-aldehydes [22],57 The AN (D) value determined in solid state for symmetrical di-Schiff base which was a derivative of salicylaldehyde was —1.8 ppm, which was typical of... 

The position of the proton transfer equilibrium for the Schiff bases being derivatives of rac-2-aminobutane [24] or rac-a-methylbenzylamine [25] and their adducts with dirhodium complex has been estimated in CDCI3 solution on the basis of measurements of deuterium isotope effects on 15N chemical shift.12 It was shown that adduct formation significantly influenced the position of the equilibrium which was manifested by AN(D) values. 

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