Nuclear magnetic resonance signal intensities

For the characterisation of the biodegradation intermediates of C12-LAS, metabolised in pure culture by an a-proteobacterium, Cook and co-workers [23] used matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation (MALDI)-time of flight (TOF)-MS as a complementary tool to HPLC with diode array detection and 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance. The dominating signal in the spectrum at m/z 271 and 293 were assigned to the ions [M - H] and [M - 2H + Na]- of C6-SPC. Of minor intensity were the ions with m/z 285 and 299, interpreted to be the deprotonated molecular ions of C7- and C8-SPC, respectively. 

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+. 

Incorporation studies of C-labeled precursors require extensive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements. The signals of C-NMR-spectra of the analyzed metabolites must be assigned fully. The C-NMR spectra of the reference compound of natural abundance (1.1%) and of the labeled metabolite must be recorded in the same conditions. A comparison between the relative signal intensities of the two spectra indicates that the carbon atom is labeled and indicates the magnitude of the isotope enrichment. 

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