Reactive surface organometallic complexes observed using dynamic nuclear polarization surface enhanced NMR spectroscopy

Eva Pump, Jasmine Viger-Gravel, Edy Abou-Hamad, Manoja Samantaray, Bilel Hamzaoui, Andrei Gurinov, Dalaver H. Anjum, David Gajan, Anne Lesage, Anissa Bendjeriou-Sedjerari, Lyndon Emsley, Jean-Marie Basset

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Abstract

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Surface Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy (DNP SENS) is an emerging technique that allows access to high-sensitivity NMR spectra from surfaces. However, DNP SENS usually requires the use of radicals as an exogenous source of polarization, which has so far limited applications for organometallic surface species to those that do not react with the radicals. Here we show that reactive surface species can be studied if they are immobilized inside porous materials with suitably small windows, and if bulky nitroxide bi-radicals (here TEKPol) are used as the polarization source and which cannot enter the pores. The method is demonstrated by obtaining significant DNP enhancements from highly reactive complelxes [(equivalent to Si-O-)W(Me)(5)] supported on MCM-41, and effects of pore size (6.0, 3.0 and 2.5 nm) on the performance are discussed.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)284-290
Number of pages7
JournalChem. Sci.
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work received support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and ERC Advanced Grant No. 320860. We thank Dr Olivier Ouari and Paul Tordo from the University of Aix-Marseille, for providing the TEKPol radical.

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