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Underpinning Equipment for Magnetic Resonance Research

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)
Connect with Mark

Email: S.M.Spearing@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Malcolm Levitt

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Endofullerenes
Connect with Malcolm

Email: mhl@soton.ac.uk

Professor Marcel Utz

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

  • Integration of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology with NMR spectroscopy and imaging;
  • Behaviour of complex materials.
Connect with Marcel

Email: Marcel.Utz@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

Hyperpolarization and the physical boundary of Liouville space
Malcolm H. Levitt & Christian Bengs, 2021, Magnetic Resonance, 2(1), 395-407
DOI: 10.5194/mr-2-395-2021
Type: article
A solid state intramolecular Wittig reaction enables efficient synthesis of endofullerenes including Ne@C60, 3He@C60 and HD@C60
Gabriela Hoffman, Mark C. Walkey, John Gräsvik, George R. Bacanu, Shamim Alom, Sally Bloodworth, Mark E. Light, Malcolm H. Levitt & Richard John Whitby, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60(16), 8960-8966
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202100817
Type: article
Rapid hyperpolarization and purification of the metabolite fumarate in aqueous solution
Stephan Knecht, John W. Blanchard, Danila Barskiy, Eleonora Cavallari, Laurynas Dagys, Erik Van Dyke, Maksim Tsukanov, Bea Bliemel, Kerstin Münnemann, Silvio Aime, Francesca Reineri, Malcolm H. Levitt, Gerd Buntkowsky, Alexander Pines, Peter Blümler, Dmitry Budker & James Eills, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(13), 1-6
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025383118
Type: article
Nuclear hyperpolarization of (1-13C)-pyruvate in aqueous solution by proton-relayed side-Arm hydrogenation
Laurynas Dagys, Anil P. Jagtap, Sergey Korchak, Salvatore Mamone, Philip Saul, Malcolm H. Levitt & Stefan Glöggler, 2021, Analyst, 146(5), 1772-1778
DOI: 10.1039/d0an02389b
Type: article
15N hyperpolarisation of the antiprotozoal drug ornidazole by Signal Amplification By Reversible Exchange in aqueous medium
2021, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 59(12), 1199-1207
DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5144
Type: article