Research project

High Resolution Solid State Nitrogen-14 NMR

Research groups:

Cell and Developmental Biology
Lead researcher:

Dr Marina Carravetta
Other researchers:

Professor Phil Williamson,

Professor Ilya Kuprov
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Project overview

Solid state NMR spectroscopy of the major naturally occurring isotope of nitrogen will be made easier and more informative. This opens a new route to characterize biomolecules, natural materials, drugs, and proteins.

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Marina Carravetta

Associate Professor

Research interests

Solid state magic-angle spinning NMR
Quantum Technology for Magnetic Resonance
High temperature and/or high pressure NMR

Connect with Marina

Email: M.Carravetta@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Phil Williamson

Head of School

Research interests

Molecular processes underpinning neurodegenerative disease
Structure and function of cell membranes
Development and application of solid-state NMR and other biophysical techniques for the analysis of biological systems

Connect with Phil

Email: P.T.Williamson@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ilya Kuprov FRSC

Professor of Physics

Connect with Ilya

Email: i.kuprov@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Magnetic Resonance

Our main focus is finding ways to extend the timescale over which magnetic resonance can be made.

Research outputs

Rare neutral diphosphine complexes of scandium(III) and yttrium(III) halides

Marina Carravetta, Maria Concistre, William Levason, Gill Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2016, Inorganic Chemistry, 55(24), 12890-12896

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02268

Type: article

Complexes of vanadium(IV) oxide difluoride with neutral N- and O-donor ligands

Yao-Pang Chang, Liam Furness, William Levason, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2016, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 191, 149-160

DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2016.09.020

Type: article

Fokker-Planck formalism in magnetic resonance simulations

Ilya Kuprov, 2016, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 270, 124-135

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2016.07.005

Type: article

¹⁴N overtone transition in double rotation solid-state NMR

Ibraheem M. Haies, James A. Jarvis, Lynda J. Brown, Ilya Kuprov, Philip T. F. Williamson & Marina Carravetta, 2015, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(37), 23748-23753

DOI: 10.1039/C5CP03266K

Type: article

14N overtone NMR under MAS: signal enhancement using symmetry-based sequences and novel simulation strategies

Ibraheem M. Haies, James A. Jarvis, Harry Bentley, Ivo Heinmaa, Ilya Kuprov, Philip T.F. Williamson & Marina Carravetta, 2015, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(9), 6577-6587

DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03994g

Type: article