Solid-state 13C NMR study of cholesteric liquid crystals.

We investigated the structural behavior of cholesteric liquid crystals of 4-(hexyloxy)-4'-cyanobiphenyl (6OCB) in an 11.7 T magnetic field by solid-state (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance. Five 6OCB cholesteric liquid crystal systems were prepared with 4-methoxyphenyl 3,4-O-isopropylidene-2,6-bis-O-(4-methylbenzoyl)-β-d-galactopyranoside (CR), in which 6OCB was doped with 0.

Stacking of bacteriochlorophyll c macrocycles in chlorosome from Chlorobium limicola as revealed by intermolecular 13C magnetic-dipole correlation, X-ray diffraction, and quadrupole coupling in 25Mg NMR.

The stacking of the bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c macrocycles and the role of water in forming an aggregate sheet, in chlorosome, were examined by means of (13)C NMR spectroscopy, the measurement of the X-ray diffraction pattern, and (25)Mg NMR spectroscopy. (1) The stacking of the macrocycles, i.e.

Fullerene as a standard sample for adjusting the NMR spectral resolution in multiple-quantum magic-angle-spinning experiments.

A method using fullerene for adjusting the NMR spectral resolution for multiple quantum magic angle spinning (MQMAS) experiments is proposed. To observe its (13)C MAS signal, it is not necessary to apply (1)H decoupling, unavailable with single-resonance MQMAS probes. Although (13)C T(1) of fullerene is rather long, a recycle time of 5 s in shimming yields its signal with sufficiently high sensitivity if setting the appropriate Ernst angles corresponding to magnetic fields.