American Chemical Society
Browse

Broad-Band DREAM Recoupling Sequence

Download (255.04 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2015-12-17, 04:53 authored by Kong Ooi Tan, Anders B. Nielsen, Beat H. Meier, Matthias Ernst
We describe a more broad-banded version of the DREAM double-quantum dipolar-recoupling sequence, which is devised by superimposing a phase-alternating RF irradiation scheme, that is, XiX pulses, on top of the original DREAM sequence. We call this sequence XiXCW DREAM. The recoupling conditions and the corresponding first-order effective Hamiltonian are analyzed using triple-mode Floquet theory. The performance of the XiXCW DREAM sequence is compared to the original DREAM sequence by numerical simulations and experiments on small model substances and the model protein ubiquitin. The results confirm that XiXCW DREAM shows a wider recoupling bandwidth compared to that of DREAM, therefore making the choice for the position of the carrier frequency less critical.

History