Nuclear magnetic resonance oxidation states

While XAS techniques focus on direct characterizations of the host electrode structure, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is used to probe local chemical environments via the interactions of insertion cations that are NMR-active nuclei, for example lithium-6 or -7, within the insertion electrode. As with XAS, NMR techniques are element specific (and nuclear specific) and do not require any long-range structural order in the host material for analysis. Solid-state NMR methods are now routinely employed to characterize the various chemical components of Li ion batteries metal oxide cathodes, Li ion-conducting electrolytes, and carbonaceous anodes.Coupled to controlled electrochemical in-sertion/deinsertion of the NMR-active cations, the... 

Crabtree and coworkers proposed a catalytic cycle for the reaction outUned in Equation 6.10. The mechanism is based on labeling and kinetic studies, and is outlined in Scheme 6.4 [25]. Adduct 36 was observed in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and appears to be a catalyst resting state. It should be noted that there is no change in the oxidation state of Ir, and that the key step is thought... 

The surface structure and reactivity of vanadium oxide monolayer catalysts supported on tin oxide were investigated by various physico-chemical characterization techniques. In this study a series of tin oxide supported vanadium oxide catalysts with various vanadia loadings ranging from 0.5 to 6. wt.% have been prepared and were characterized by means of X-ray diffraction, oxygen chemisorption at -78°C, solid state and nuclear magnetic resonance... 

Simpson, M. J., and Hatcher, P. G. (2004). Determination of black carbon in natural organic matter by chemical oxidation and sohd-state nC nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Org. Geochem. 35, 923-935. 

When 51V nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used to follow the catalysis of trimethoxybenzene (tmb) bromination, the only vanadium species that were observed under conditions of 0.5 mM total vanadium(V) were oxodiper-oxovanadium(V) (V0(02)2 , -688 ppm), oxoperoxovanadium(V) (V0(02)+, -529 ppm), and cw-dioxovanadium(V) (-540 ppm). Within the experimental error of the integration, all of the vanadium was detected in the vanadium(V) oxidation state under turnover conditions, since the integrated signal intensity at various times throughout the reaction was equivalent to that of an equimolar solution of cis-V02+. 

Direct methods for determining the combinational form of an element or its oxidation state include infrared absorption spectrometry, X-ray diffraction and, more recently, electron paramagnetic resonance - nuclear magnetic resonance -and Mossbauer spectrometry. With such techniques the combinational forms of major elements in soil components such as clay minerals, iron, manganese and aluminium oxyhydroxides and humic materials and the chemical structures of these soil components have been elucidated over the past 50 years. These direct, mainly non-destructive, methods for speciation are dealt with in some detail in Chapter 3 and are not further discussed here. 

Until recently, probably the best understood oxidation state of vanadium was V(IV). This situation changed with the advent of high field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, which provided the means to obtain a detailed understanding of the V(V) oxidation state. Indeed, the past 2 decades have seen the redrawing of the landscape of V(V) science, particularly where the aqueous phase is involved. 

Usami, T., Itih, T., Ohtani, H., Tsuge, S. (1990) Structural study of polyacrylonitrile libers during oxidative thermal degradation by pyrolysis-gas chromatography, solid state 13C Nuclear magnetic resonance and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Macromolecules 23, 2460-2465. 

Stronger chemical evidence for the presence of a dithiolene in molybdopterin was obtained when the mild alkylation reagent iodoacetamide effectively trapped the dithiolene (65). This reaction yielded a derivative whose characterization by FAB mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was consistent with the structure shown in Fig. 5. The method appeared to leave the side chain intact and preserved the pterin oxidation state. From this experiment the view persisted that molybdopterin is a disubstituted dithiolene bearing a reduced pterin and a short chain terminated with a phosphate. 

The study of chemical speciation requires that the irradiation energy be in the range of chemical bonds. There are some methods in which chemical structure can influence the properties of the nuclei. The most important method is nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Another example is Mossbauer spectroscopy, in which the oxidation state and the chemical environment affect the... 

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