Simulation of phase-modulated shifted-echo MQMAS NMR for a spin I = 5/2.
Contributor: R. Hajjar

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Phase-modulated shifted-echo MQMAS

AIM: We provide Mathematica-5 notebooks and SIMPSON1.1.1 Tcl scripts to optimize the echo amplitude or that of antiecho for phase-modulated shifted-echo MQMAS NMR experiment applied to half-integer quadrupole spin.

Phase-modulated shifted-echo MQMAS sequence and coherence transfer pathways

Fig. 1: Phase-modulated shifted-echo MQMAS pulse sequence and 3Q echo coherence transfer pathway of a spin I = 5/2 system.

Phase-modulated shifted-antiecho MQMAS sequence and coherence transfer pathways

Fig. 2: Phase-modulated shifted-antiecho MQMAS pulse sequence and -3Q antiecho coherence transfer pathway of a spin I = 5/2 system.
The echo amplitude and the antiecho amplitude have opposite signs.

Method: We simulate the echo and the antiecho amplitudes of a spin I = 5/2 versus an increasing pulse duration in a powder rotating at the magic angle, using Mathematica-5 notebooks.

The parameters for these simulations are:

(A) Mathematica-5 notebook

(1) Preliminary

Echo
optimization
with
Notebook SIMPSON
1.1.1
strong pulse p1 echo_P1 (pdf) echo_P1
strong pulse p2 echo_P2 (pdf) echo_P2
soft pulse p3 echo_P3 (pdf) echo_P3

Antiecho
optimization
with
Notebook SIMPSON
1.1.1
strong pulse p1 antiecho_P1 (pdf) antiecho_P1
strong pulse p2 antiecho_P2 (pdf) antiecho_P2
soft pulse p3 antiecho_P3 (pdf) antiecho_P3
  1. Download Mathematica-5 notebooks, that for MAS NMR utilities QUADRUPOLE_1_0.nb (the corresponding PDF file), and the crystal file rep100_simp.
  2. Save these files into Mathematica-5 folder. Forbidden the Operating System of your computer to include extra file extension to rep100_simp by providing the file name with double quotes such as "rep100_simp".
  3. Open QUADRUPOLE_1_0.nb file with Mathematica-5.
  4. Press "Ctrl-A" to select the notebook, then press "Shift-enter" to start the notebook. (Some warning messages appear but they have no consequences on the results.) A new file called QUADRUPOLE is created in Mathematica-5 folder.

(2) Simulation

  1. Open a Mathematica-5 notebook such as shifted_echo_P2.nb.
  2. Press "Ctrl-A" to select the notebook, then press "Shift-enter" to start simulation. (Some warning messages precede the simulation.) At the end a data file called shifted_echo_P2 is created in Mathematica-5 folder. MS Excel can open this data file for graphic representation.

(B) Result

Figures 3 to 6 represent simulated data.

Al-27 shifted 3Q-echo and -3Q antiecho amplitudes versus the first-pulse duration

Fig. 3: 27Al shifted 3Q echo and shifted -3Q antiecho amplitudes versus the first-pulse duration. The second-pulse duration is 1 μs for the echo and 1.75 μs for the antiecho. The third-pulse duration is 15 μs. Notebook filenames: shifted_echo_P1.nb and shifted_antiecho_P1.nb.

Al-27 shifted 3Q-echo and -3Q antiecho amplitudes versus the second-pulse duration

Fig. 4: 27Al shifted 3Q echo and shifted -3Q antiecho amplitudes versus the second-pulse duration. The first-pulse duration is 4 μs. The third-pulse duration is 15 μs. Notebook filenames: shifted_echo_P2.nb and shifted_antiecho_P2.nb.

Al-27 shifted 3Q-echo and -3Q antiecho amplitudes versus the third-pulse duration

Fig. 5: 27Al shifted 3Q echo and shifted -3Q antiecho amplitudes versus the third-pulse duration. The first-pulse duration is 4 μs. The second-pulse duration is μs for the echo and 1.75 μs for the antiecho. Notebook filenames: shifted_echo_P3.nb and shifted_antiecho_P3.nb.

Figures 3 to 5 show that the first extreme value of echo amplitude is larger than that of the antiecho. The explanation is similar to that given for the simulation of amplitude-modulated two-pulse sequence. That is, the two coherence transfer pathways are not symmetrical. The coherence order change from p = 3 to p = 1 is two for the echo pathway whereas that from p = -3 to p = 1 is four for the antiecho pathway. The important coherence order change in the antiecho transfer pathway reduces the antiecho amplitude.

Al-27 shifted 3Q-echo amplitude versus the third-pulse duration associated with two RF fields

Fig. 6: 27Al shifted 3Q echo amplitude versus the third-pulse duration. The first-pulse duration is 4 μs. The second-pulse duration is 1 μs. The RF field generating the third pulse is 10 kHz for weak pulse and 100 kHz for strong pulse. Notebook filename: shifted_echo_P3.nb.

Figure 6 shows that a weak third pulse generates larger echo amplitude than a strong third pulse.

(C) Conclusion

Since the phase-modulated split-t1 sequences and the phase-modulated shifted-echo sequences have the same coherence transfer pathways, the notebooks and Tcl scripts for echo and antiecho amplitude simulation are valid for these phase-modulated sequences too.

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