• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.727-735
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• 2002

Proton coupled carbon-13 relaxation experiment was performed to investigate the effect of vicinal protons on spin-lattice relaxation of methylene carbon-13 in n-undecane. A BIRD type pulse sequence was employed as a way to check the validity of describing the 13CH2 moiety as an isolated AX2 spin system. The results show that the presence of vicinal protons exerts substantial influence on the relaxation of methylene carbon-13, indicating that it is not a very good approximation to treat a methylene moiety as an isolated AX2 spin system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.1E
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• pp.14-19
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• 2006

Ultrasonic absorption and velocity spectra in bovine serum albumin (BSA) aqueous solutions have been measured at $20^{\circ}C$ over the frequency range 0.2-3 MHz in the pH range 1.5-13.2. The high-Q ultrasonic resonator and pulse-echo overlap methods were used. At acid pH's, excess absorption over that of pH 7 was explained by double relaxation. The pH dependences of the relaxation frequency and maximum absorption per wavelength, showed that the relaxation at about 200 kHz was related to the expansion of molecules and that about 3 MHz resulted from the proton transfer reaction of carboxyl group. At alkaline pH's, the excess absorption was explained by double relaxation. The relaxation at about 300 kHz was associated with a helix-coil transition, and that about 3 MHz was attributed to the proton transfer reaction of phenolic group. The rate constants and volume changes associated with these processes were estimated.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1E
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• pp.24-28
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• 1997

Ultrasonic relaxation measurements for imidazole and its derivative in phosphate buffer exhibit a high peak of absorption at neutral pH. Near neutral pH, protolysis and hydrosis may be neglected and the essential reaction only consists of a direct proton-exchange. The kinetics constants and the volume changes for the proton transfer reaction with the protonated imidazole and 2-methylimidazole have been determined at 25℃. The kinetics constants are 7.2×108s-1M-1for imidazole and 1.7×108s-1M-1 for 2-methylimidazole. The kinetics constants are used to estimate the spectrum of relaxation times and acoustic relaxation amplitude associated with intermolecular and intramolecular proton-exchange reactions in bilogical media. It is concluded that the magnitude of the acoustic absorption reasonalbly attributable to the perturbation of proton-transfer equilibria between imidazole and inorganic phosphate is comparable in magnitude with the acoustic absorption observed in some intact tissues.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1675-1679
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• 2003

The photodynamics of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer reaction of 1-hydroxyanthraquinone (1-HAQ) and 1-deuterioanthraquinone was investigated in toluene with time-resolved emission and femtosecond transient transmittance techniques at room temperature. The temporal profiles of transient transmittance of 1-HAQ could be well described with multi-decaying time constants. The ultrafast time constant within ca. 260 fs reflects the dynamics of proton transfer. The decay component of 2 ps is assigned to an additional proton translocation process induced by the intramolecular vibrational relaxation, whereas the decay component of 18 ps is assigned to the vibrational cooling process, while the long component (200 ps) can be explained in terms of the relaxation from excited-state keto-tautomer to its ground state. Time-resolved anisotropy decay dynamics and isotope effects on the photodynamics reveals that the ESIPT from enol-tautomer to keto-one of 1-HAQ is barrierless reaction and coupled to a vibrational relaxation process.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.230-232
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• 1987

Nitrogen-14 quadrupolar relaxation has been observed in the amino proton nmr spectra of TA in acetone and methanol solutions over the temperature range $-83^{\circ}C\; to\;+35^{\circ}C.$ The proton nmr lineshapes were analyzed to yield a $^{14}N$ spin lattice relaxation time $(T_1)_N$ as a function of temperature. Activation energies and correlation times at $25^{\circ}C$ for the molecular reorientation in the two solution phases have been calculated and the results are discussed.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.1077-1084
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• 2000

The dipolar effect of neighboring protons that are not directly bonded to the carbon of interest on coupled carbon-13 relaxation in a simple organic molecule has been studied by comparing the relaxation behaviors of labeled carbon-13 in $Br13CH_2COOH$ with those in $BrCH_213COOH.$ Various pulse sequences, such as coupled inversion recovery pulse sequence, J-negative and J-positive pulse sequence, and nonselective and selective proton ${\pi}pulse$ sequence, were employed to perform the required coupled spin relaxation experiments. To gain information on various spectral densities, including that of dipolar-CSA cross correlation, the experiments were performed on two different spectrometers, operating, respectively, at 50.31 and 125.51MHz for 13C. The magnitude of CH dipolar spectral densities for $BrCH_213COOH$ was found to be about 8% of those for $Br13CH_2COOH$, which means the effect due to the protons not directly bonded to the carbon of interest is small but not completely negligible.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.52-55
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• 1994

The proton and deuteron spin-lattice relaxation times, $T_{1}(H)$ and $T_{1}(D)$, have been measured in HD between 30 K and 313 K in the pressure of 0.67 - 1.92 atm. The nuclear magnetic resonance frequencies are respectively 358.012 MHz for a proton and 58.958 MHz for a deuteron. From the measurements of $T_{1}(H)$ and $T_{1}(D)$ the ratio of the correlation times ${\tau}_{1}\;and\;{\tau}_{2}$ that are associated with the molecular angular momentum operators was obtained. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time at J = 1 state has been observed to have a temperature dependence being proportional to $T^{0.25}$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1197-1201
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• 2001

In the spectrum of uniformly 15N labeled cytochrome c3, the relative linewidths of the doublet peaks of the 15N-coupled imido proton of the coordinated imidazole group were reversed on oxidation. This inversion was explained by the interference relaxation process between the electron-proton dipolar and 15N-1H dipolear interactions. The inversion can be used to assign the imido protons of the coordinated imidazole groups in heme proteins.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.68 no.2
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• pp.74-81
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• 2024

A sulfonic acid-water-silanol system in SO₃H-functionalized MCM-41 was investigated using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. The proton exchange rate between a water molecule and a silanol group in the S-PE-MCM-41 was determined by analyzing the 1D proton spectra, the proton EXSY spectrum, and ²H spin-lattice relaxation data under various hydration levels. Two kinds of water-bounding sites were found in the S-PE-MCM-41: weakly and strongly bound sites. Over several hours, water molecules bound to the weakly bound sites at the low hydration level migrated to the strongly bound sites. At high temperature, the S-PE-MCM-41 easily lost water molecules weakly bound to the silanol, while the strongly bound water molecules survived. Water molecules that participated in the hydration of the phenethyl sulfonate were involved in the hydrogenbonded silanol mechanism of proton conductivity. This phenomenon contributes higher proton conductivity to the S-PE-MCM-41 by the cooperation of sulfonyl and silanol groups in the proton transfer process, even at higher temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.9-17
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• 2010

The water proton relaxation rates increase linearly with concentrations of contrast agents, and could be expressed as a function of the concentrations. In this paper, we have investigated MR properties of two different contrast agents, $GdCl_3$ and $CoCl_2$. Relaxivity coefficients were calculated from individual contrast agent solutions, and used for predicting relaxation rates at mixtures of two contrast agents. From the experimental results, we have discussed the feasibility of constructing water solutions with the desired relaxation times using specific mixtures of contrast agents.