ROESY sequence

EXSY experiments are also sometimes performed with ROESY sequences (see Section 8.4). 

Ihe number of multidimensional sequences using some form of solvent suppression is almost without bound. Consequently, we have limited the examples drawn from multidimensional sequences to some (randomly) chosen examples of the flip-back method and suppression in COSY, TOCSY, NOESY and ROESY sequences. A final subsection gives two examples of suppression in multidimensional sequences using Bi gradients. 

Figure 8.45. The 2D ROESY sequence. The mixing time, tm. is defined by the duration of the low-power spin-lock pulse.

The third complicating factor specific to ROESY is the attenuation of cross-peak intensities as a function of resonance offset from the transmitter frequency [69]. Off-resonance spins experience a spin-lock axis that is tipped out of the x-y plane (Section 3.2.1) resulting in a reduction in observable transverse signal in addition to a reduction in cross-relaxation rates. This is more of a problem for quantitative measurements, although fortunately mid-sized molecules show the weakest dependence of ROE cross-relaxation rates on offset. The so-called compensated ROESY sequence [69] eliminates these frequency-dependent losses should quantitative data be required. 

The best way to avoid the l-cox problem (and weak nOes) is to use a rotating frame experiment, for instance ROESY (Rotating frame Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy) also named CAMELSPIN by its inventors (77). The (oXg dependence of rOes is complex and one may simply remember that rOes are always positive, never null. The ROESY sequence is similar to the sequence of HOHAHA the main difference is the power of the spinlock which is generated by a long soft pulse rather than by a WALTZ sequence. In ROESY experiments, rOe cross peaks may be accompanied by Hart-mann-Hahn correlations which are easily distinguished by their opposite sign (in phased experiments) (78). 

Figure 6 Rotating frame NOE pulse sequences. The 1D experiment requires two sequences, represented by (A) and (B). (A) is the reference experiment in which a 90 non-selective pulse is applied on all the spins, followed by a spin-lock along the y-direction for a time and the state of the spin system is detected. (B) The control experiment in which a selective 180 pulse, inverts the magnetization of the spin from which the NOE is to be observed before the 90j pulse and the experiment is continued as (A). The 1D NOE spectrum is the difference between the spectra obtained with the sequence (A) and (B). (C) The 2D ROESY sequence. The times and fs are the evolution and detection periods and is the mixing time. SL refers to the low power spin-locking RF field.

Figure 5.45 Pulse sequence used in the ROESY experiment. The data obtained from odd and even scans are stored separately.

The pulse sequence for the ID ROESY experiment using purged half-Gaussian pulses is shown in Fig. 7.7. The purging is required to remove the dispersive components, since these are not completely eliminated by the weak spin-lock field employed in the ID ROESY experiment. 

Figure 7.7 A ID ROESY pulse sequence with purged half-Gaussian excitation. (Reprinted from Mag. Reson. Chem. 29, H. Kessler et al., 527, copyright (1991), with permission from John Wiley and Sons Limited, Baffins Lane, Chichester, Sussex P019 lUD, England.)...

Parhcular care has to be taken when implementing ROESY experiments. The spin-lock, which holds the spins along a defined axis perpendicular to the stahc magnetic field, can be realized in many different ways and is shU an achve field of research [18, 20]. In most spin-lock sequences the conditions for undesired TOCSY transfer are parhally fulfilled and especially cross-peaks close to the diagonal or anhdiagonal might not be accurately interpretable. Since in most cases the effechveness of the spin-lock also depends on the chemical shift offset, an offset-dependent correction has to be applied to the measured cross-peak intensities [20]. 

The pioneering work in this field, a two-dimensional relayed-NOE experiment proposed by Wagner [7], was quickly followed by the appearance of several related NMR techniques [8-17]. Application of isotropic mixing during the J-transfer period yielded the 2D TOCSY-NOESY [11, 15] and NOESY-TOCSY [12, 14] experiments. When spin-lock sequences were applied to both J and NOE-transfers, the 2D TOCSY-ROESY and ROESY-TOCSY experiments [10, 16, 17] emerged. 

In the subsequent ID ROESY-TOCSY experiment (pulse sequence of fig. 7(c)), a selective TOCSY transfer was applied from H-4c. During the... 

Fig. 8. ID ROESY-TOCSY. (a) H spectrum of the oligosaccharide 3 (5 mg/0.5 ml D2O). (b) ID ROESY spectrum of 3 acquired using the pulse sequence of fig. 7(a) with selective excitation of the H-lb proton. Duration of the 270° Gaussian pulse and the spin-lock pulse ( yBi/ K = 2.8 kHz) was 49.2 ms and 0.5 s, respectively. The spin-lock pulse was applied 333.3 Hz downfield from the H-lb resonance. The time used for the frequency change was 3 ms. (c) ID ROESY-TOCSY spectrum acquired using the pulse sequence of fig. 7(c) and the selective ROESY transfer from H-lb followed by a selective TOCSY transfer from H-4c. Parameters for the ROESY part were the same as in (b). A 49.2 ms Gaussian pulse was used at the beginning of the 29.07 ms TOCSY spin lock. 256 scans were accumulated. A partial structure of 3 is given in the inset. Solid and dotted lines represent TOCSY and ROESY...

The ID TOCSY-ROESY experiment is illustrated on the same molecule using the pulse sequence of fig. 7(d). This time the magnetization of H-4c was generated during the initial selective TOCSY transfer from H-lc (fig. 9(b), pulse sequence of fig. 7(b)). In the subsequent ID TOCSY-ROESY experiment, the ROE transfer from H-4c confirmed the expected... 

Fig. 1. Basic pulse sequence and CP diagram for gradient-based spin-locked ID exf>eriments. A 1 (— 1) 2 gradient ratio selects N-type data (solid lines) while 1 (— 1) (—2) selects P-type data (dashed lines). When SL stands for a -filtered DIPSI-2 pulse train, a ge-lD TOeSY is performed. On the other hand, when SL stands for a T-ROESY pulse train, a GROESY experiment is performed. S stands for the gradient length.

The use of spin-lock pulses for water suppression is illustrated with the NOESY and ROESY pulse sequences (fig. 5). Using the Cartesian product operator description [9], the effect of the NOESY pulse sequence of fig. 5(A) is readily illustrated ... 

Fig. 5. Pulse sequences of NOESY and ROESY with spin-lock purge pulses for water suppression. (A) NOESY pulse sequence. The spin-lock pulses are typically of length 0.5 ms and 2 ms, and r = 1/SW, where SW is the spectral width in the acquisition dimension. Phase cycle (pi = x,—x) 4>2 = 4 x,x,—x,—x) ...

Compared to other multidimensional experiments the exchange experiments are fairly simple and, thus, easy to optimize. Experiments are robust with regard to the pulse imperfections and miscalibration. All artifacts except coherence transfer can be removed with standard phase cycling of RF pulses and receiver. The coherence transfer can be removed by appropriate pulse sequences, preferably with T-ROESY. 

The structures of the compounds were elucidated by a combination of NMR techniques (lH-, 13C-, and 13C-DEPT NMR) and chemical transformation, enzymatic degradation, and as well as mass spectrometry, which gives information on the saccharide sequence. A more recent approach consists of an extensive use of high-resolution 2D NMR techniques, such as homonuclear and heteronuclear correlated spectroscopy (DQF-COSY, HOHAHA, HSQC, HMBC) and NOE spectroscopy (NOESY, ROESY), which now play the most important role in the structural elucidation of intact glycosides. These techniques are very sensitive and non destructive and allow easy recovery of the intact compounds for subsequent biological testing. 

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