Nawrocka, Ewa K.; Jadwiszczak, Michał; Leszczyński, Piotr J.; Kazimierczuk, Krzysztof
doi: 10.1002/mrc.5433pmid: 38303612
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools in analytical chemistry. An important step in the analysis of NMR data is the assignment of resonance frequencies to the corresponding atoms in the molecule being investigated. The traditional approach considers the spectrum's characteristic parameters: chemical shift values, internuclear couplings, and peak intensities. In this paper, we show how to support the process of assigning a series of spectra of similar organic compounds by using temperature coefficients, that is, the rates of change in chemical shift values associated with given changes in temperature.
Menke, Alexander J.; Chen, Fu; Chen, Kang
doi: 10.1002/mrc.5436pmid: 38351244
Octreotide acetate, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the long‐acting release (LAR) drug product Sandostatin®, is a cyclic octapeptide that mimics the naturally occurring somatostatin peptide hormone. Modern NMR can be a robust analytical method to identify and quantify octreotide molecules. Previous 1H chemical shift assignments were mostly performed in organic solvents, and no assignments for heteronuclear 13C, 15N, and aromatic 1H nuclei are available. Here, using state‐of‐the‐art 1D and 2D homo‐ and heteronuclear NMR experiments, octreotide was fully assigned, including water exchangeable amide protons, in aqueous buffer except for 13CO and 15NH of F1, 15NH of C2, and 15NζHζ of K5 that were not observed because of water exchange or conformational exchange. The solution NMR spectra were then directly compared with 1D 1H/13C/15N solid‐state NMR (SSNMR) spectra showing the potential applicability of 13C/15N SSNMR for octreotide drug product characterization.
Le‐McClain, Anh; Zanelotti, Curt; Robert, Hector; Casanova, Federico
doi: 10.1002/mrc.5438pmid: 38369688
Benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers are being employed in a wide variety of applications from undergraduate teaching and research in academia to quality control and process monitoring in industrial settings. Incorporating benchtop NMR in some of these applications presents opportunities for new practical uses of the technology and challenges that truly test the capabilities of compact NMR spectrometers. For instance, the use of protonated solvents in manufacturing or process monitoring requires separating and quantitating the analyte signals of interest from the strong (overwhelming) response from the solvents. Furthermore, due to the lower field strength available with permanent magnet spectrometers, the NMR spectra of complex mixtures can be more difficult to analyze due to partial or complete signal overlap. To address some of these challenges and to extend the range of applications of benchtop NMR, we investigate NMR techniques that enable quantitative analysis of different components in mixtures. These pulse sequences can be used to suppress one or multiple solvent peaks, to filter out signals by spin–spin relaxation time (T2), or to separate signal components by a molecule's diffusion coefficient (NMR diffusometry). In this paper, we discuss quantitative analysis of excipients in buffers for therapeutic proteins to highlight the usefulness of these NMR pulse sequences in the analysis of complex samples with benchtop NMR spectrometers.
Hernández‐Tanguma, Alejandro; Ariza‐Castolo, Armando
doi: 10.1002/mrc.5439pmid: 38369602
Eugenol–β‐cyclodextrin complex has been widely used because of the enhanced stability and conservation of the properties of eugenol. Applications in food and health sciences have been shown previously, which makes this complex an excellent model to understand and develop methodologies for the analysis and prediction of physical properties. In this work, the dynamics of eugenol incorporated into β‐cyclodextrin are presented, using NMR relaxation rates, and the predictive capabilities of molecular dynamics simulations are discussed. Results show a hindered rotation of eugenol around the principal inertial axes when located inside β‐cyclodextrin. Moreover, a translational movement of the whole complex is demonstrated.
Silva Elipe, Maria Victoria; Ndukwe, Ikenna Edward; Murray, James I.
doi: 10.1002/mrc.5434pmid: 38369696
The discovery of new ceramic materials containing Ba‐La‐Cu oxides in 1986 that exhibited superconducting properties at high temperatures in the range of 35 K or higher, recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987, opened a new world of opportunities for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMRs) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) to move away from liquid cryogens. This discovery expands the application of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials to fields beyond the chemical and medical industries, including electrical power grids, energy, and aerospace. The prototype 400‐MHz cryofree HTS NMR spectrometer installed at Amgen's chemistry laboratory has been vital for a variety of applications such as structure analysis, reaction monitoring, and CASE‐3D studies with RDCs. The spectrometer has been integrated with Amgen's chemistry and analytical workflows, providing pipeline project support in tandem with other Kinetic Analysis Platform technologies. The 400‐MHz cryofree HTS NMR spectrometer, as the name implies, does not require liquid cryogens refills and has smaller footprint that facilitates installation into a chemistry laboratory fume hood, sharing the hood with a process chemistry reactor. Our evaluation of its performance for structural analysis with CASE‐3D protocol and for reaction monitoring of Amgen's pipeline chemistry was successful. We envision that the HTS magnets would become part of the standard NMR and MRI spectrometers in the future. We believe that while the technology is being developed, there is room for all magnet options, including HTS, low temperature superconducting (LTS) magnets, and low field benchtop NMRs with permanent magnets, where utilization will be dependent on application type and costs.
doi: 10.1002/mrc.5440pmid: 38404187
This study aimed to obtain the title spectra and verify the temperature dependence of δDSS of the HOD signal from D2O of the NMR sample. However, the analysis of the collected δX data, extended by the results of other closely related measurements reported in the literature, provided important guidelines for performing routine 1H/13C NMR spectra in aqueous solvents externally referenced to neat liquid TMS contained in a coaxial capillary. Therefore, it is recommended that the previously proposed correction of δX data thus determined, which is mainly due to the difference in volume magnetic susceptibility χv between the sample and the external standard used, usually called the bulk magnetic susceptibility (BMS) correction, has been increased by +0.05 ppm (7%). The new value of this correction, +0.73 ppm, based on NMR experiments carried out at a standard temperature of 25°C, was confirmed in a classical approach using critically reviewed χm, χM, and ρ data for TMS, D2O, and H2O. The BMS correction for H2O solutions is +0.75 ppm. Important issues concerning magnetic susceptibility measurements for D2O and H2O, coaxial bulb‐ended inserts, and the geometry of two‐tube NMR cells (shape factor αav) are also critically discussed here, partly from a historical perspective.
Meredith, Reagan; Zhu, Yuping; Yoon, Mi‐Kyung; Tetrault, Timothy; Lin, Jieye; Zhang, Wenhui; McGurn, Margaret; Cook, Evan; Popp, Reed; Shit, Pradip; Carmichael, Ian; Serianni, Anthony S.
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Hughes, Eric; Kenwright, Alan M.
doi: 10.1002/mrc.5441pmid: 38445574
Despite progress in computer automated solutions, constitutional isomer verification by NMR using one‐ and two‐dimensional data sets is still, in the main, a manual, user‐intensive activity that is challenging for a number of reasons. These include the problem of simultaneously keeping track of the information from a number of separate NMR experiments and the difficulty of another researcher subsequently verifying the assignments made without having to independently repeat the whole analysis. This paper describes a graphical interactive approach that overcomes some of these problems. By using concepts used to visualise graph networks, we have been able to represent the NMR data in a manner that highlights directly the link between the different NMR experiments and the molecule of interest. Furthermore, by making the graph networks interactive, a user can easily validate and correct the assignment and understand the decisions made in arriving at the solution. We have developed a usable proof‐of‐concept computer program, ‘simpleNMR’, written in Python to illustrate the ideas and approach.
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MA'AT analysis has been applied to two biologically‐important O‐glycosidic linkages in two disaccharides, α‐D‐Galp‐(1→3)‐β‐D‐GalpOMe (3) and β‐D‐Galp‐(1→3)‐β‐D‐GalpOMe (4). Using density functional theory (DFT) to obtain parameterized equations relating a group of trans‐O‐glycosidic NMR spin‐couplings to either phi (ϕ') or psi (ψ'), and experimental 3JCOCH, 2JCOC, and 3JCOCC spin‐couplings measured in aqueous solution in 13C‐labeled isotopomers, probability distributions of ϕ' and ψ' in each linkage were determined and compared to those determined by aqueous 1‐μs molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. Good agreement was found between the MA'AT and single‐state MD conformational models of these linkages for the most part, with modest (approximately <15°) differences in the mean values of ϕ' and ψ', although the envelope of allowed angles (encoded in circular standard deviations or CSDs) is consistently larger for ϕ' determined from MA'AT analysis than from MD for both linkages. The MA'AT model of the α‐Galp‐(1→3)‐β‐Galp linkage agrees well with those determined previously using conventional NMR methods (3JCOCH values and/or 1H‐1H NOEs), but some discrepancy was observed for the β‐Galp‐(1→3)‐β‐Galp linkage, which may arise from errors in the conventions used to describe the linkage torsion angles. Statistical analyses of X‐ray crystal structures show ranges of ϕ' and ψ' for both linkages that include the mean angles determined from MA'AT analyses, although both angles adopt a wide range of values in the crystalline state, with ϕ' in β‐Galp‐(1→3)‐β‐Galp linkages showing greater‐than‐expected conformational variability.