Proton decoupling selective 7--------------homonuclear

The 140-residue protein AS is able to form amyloid fibrils and as such is the main component of protein inclusions involved in Parkinson s disease. Full-length 13C/15N-labelled AS fibrils and AS reverse-labelled for two of the most abundant amino acids, K and V, were examined by homonuclear and heteronuclear 2D and 3D NMR.147 Two different types of fibrils display chemical shift differences of up to 13 ppm in the l5N dimension and up to 5 ppm for the backbone and side-chain 13C chemical shifts. Selection of regions with different mobility indicates the existence of monomers in the sample and allows the identification of mobile segments of the protein within the fibril in the presence of monomeric protein. At least 35 C-terminal residues are mobile and lack a defined secondary structure, whereas the N terminus is rigid starting from residue 22. In addition, temperature-dependent sensitivity enhancement is also noted for the AS fibrils due to both the CP efficiency and motional interference with proton decoupling.148... 

Another way of getting substantially the same result is based upon a homonuclear experiment to saturate selectively the chosen resonance under proton decoupled conditions. (202) The spectrum is again acquired under fully coupled conditions and thus is a complete coupled spectrum except that the multiplet from the saturated site is absent. This spectrum is subtracted from a normal fully coupled one to yield a trace that contains only the multiplet from the desired carbon. Full fine structure is displayed. Figure 27 shows the application of this method to the spectrum of the monosaccharide derivative... 

We will briefly consider in this section various aspects of homonuclear spin-de-coupling experiments and nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) difference spectra. Obviously any detailed treatment is far beyond the size limitations of this chapter. Moving next to ID NMR techniques, we wiU briefly consider the utilization of selective spin-population transfer (SPT) and experiments which rely on these principles such as INEPT and DEPT, off-resonance proton decoupling techniques, decoupler gating experiments, and finally spin—lattice or Tj relaxation techniques. 

One-dimensional double-resonance or homonuclear spin-spin decoupling experiments can be used to furnish information about the spin network. However, we have to irradiate each proton signal sequentially and to record a larger number of ID H-NMR spectra if we wish to determine all the coupling interactions. Selective irradiation (saturation) of an individual proton signal is often difficult if there are protons with close chemical shifts. Such information, however, is readily obtainable through a single COSY experiment. 

Prior to the advent of 2D methods, selective spin decoupling was used extensively in both proton NMR and in heteronuclear (especially 13C) NMR to ascertain which sets of nuclei contribute to observed spin coupling. Such information is critical to assignment of resonances and to the elucidation of the structure of an unknown molecule. 2D methods now largely supply this information much more efficiently, by correlations that depend on the existence of spin coupling. The homonuclear version of one such experiment is called COSY (correlation spectroscopy), and the heteronuclear version is known by several acronyms, most commonly HETCOR (lieferonuclear correlation). 

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