Current
Research Projects
Biostructural
chemistry, natural products, pharmaceuticals and health
Nanostructured
materials, electronics and energy storage
Catalysts,
porous materials and minerals
Advanced
material research
Outlines
available for selected projects will open in a new window as a PDF file (50-150
kB). For 2005-2010 projects and publications see Annual
Reports
Biostructural
chemistry, natural products, pharmaceuticals and health
Solid-State 67Zn NMR Studies of Zinc Complexes with Amino Acids (publication)
K. Mroué and W. Power
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Solid-State 17O NMR as a New Probe to Study Biological Structures (outline)
J. Zhu (a), E. Ye (b), V. Terskikh (c), G. Wu (a)
(a) Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
(b) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
(c) Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada
Structural Studies of Non-fibrillar Oligomers Formed by Mammalian Prion Proteins
and Peptides
S. Sharpe
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Applications of Ultrahigh-Field NMR in Solid State for Pharmaceutical Research
(outline)
A. Brinkmann (a), V. Terskikh (a), G. Enright (a), J. Ripmeester (a,b)
(a) Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario
(b) Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Calcium-43 Chemical Shift Tensors as Spectroscopic Probes of Inorganic and
Bioinorganic Systems (outline)
C. Widdifield, D. Aebi, D. Bryce
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Very fast 1H MAS NMR to study the continuous helix formed by 5’-guanosine
monophosphate in the gel state (outline)
I.C.M. Kwan (a), E. Ye (b), G. Wu (a)
(a) Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
(b) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Ultra-wideline 14N NMR as a probe of molecular structure and dynamics (outline)
L.A. O'Dell (a), R.W. Schurko (b), K.J. Harris (b), J. Autschbach (c) and C.I.
Ratcliffe (a)
(a) Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada
(b) Department of Chemistry, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
(c) State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
Solid-State 27Al NMR Studies of Phthalocyanines and Naphthalocyanines Aluminum
Chloride Complexes (publication)
K. Mroué and W. Power
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Boron-11 Solid-State NMR of Boronic Acids via DFS-modified QCPMG and Hahn-Echo
Pulse Sequences (outline)
J. Weiss and D. Bryce
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Solid-State
Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Selected Haloanilinium Halides
R. Attrell and D. Bryce
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
13C Relaxation Rates in Solid-State Proteins at Ultrahigh Magnetic Field
Y. Wang and L. Mueller
University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Structural Studies of the Byssus of the Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis
A. Arnold and I. Marcotte
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal,
Québec
Nanostructured
materials, electronics and energy storage
Materials
for lithium ion batteries: a solid-state NMR analysis (outline)
L. Spencer, G. Goward
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Ultrahigh-Field Solid-State NMR and First Principles Calculations in Hydrogen
Storage Materials
I. Moudrakovski (a), P. Pallister (b), and J. Ripmeester (a,b)
(a) Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada
(b) Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
High-Resolution Proton NMR for NMR Crystallography of Rosette Nanotubes
(outline)
D. Brouwer (a), G. Tikhomirov (b), A.J. Myles (b), S. Bouatra (b) and H. Fenniri
(b)
(a) Redeemer University College, Hamilton, Ontario
(b) National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council Canada,
Edmonton, Alberta
Solid-State NMR Studies of Periodic Mesoporous Silica with Multiple Bridging
Groups
K. Czechura, G. Facey, A. Sayari
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
A Study of the Effect of Polymeric Powder on Calcium Species in White Cement
via 43Ca MAS NMR Spectroscopy (outline)
J. MacDonald and J. Zwanziger
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Solid-State NMR Studies of Colossal Framework Expansion Materials
G.M. Bernard, J. Dwan, B.C. Feland, T.T. Nakashima, A. Palech, R. Teymoori,
M. Wang and R.E. Wasylishen (outline)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Catalysts,
porous materials and minerals
Solid-State 67Zn NMR Characterization of Zinc Phosphite- and Zinc Phosphate–Based
Microporous Materials
(outline)
A. Sutrisno, L. Liu, J. Xu, Y. Huang
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
91Zr NMR in Zirconia-Based Ceramics (publication)
O. Lapina (a) and V. Terskikh (b)
(a) Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
(b) Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada
Characterization of Single-Site Heterogeneous Metallocene Olefin Polymerization
Catalysts by Solid-State NMR (outline)
A. Rossini and R. Schurko
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Characterization of Borate Glasses, Crystals and Minerals (outline)
V. Michaelis, P. Aguiar, S. Kroeker
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
First-principles calculations and ultrahigh-field multinuclear solid-state NMR
in MgSO4 polymorphs (outline)
I. Moudrakovski (a), P. Pallister (b), and J. Ripmeester (a,b)
(a) Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada
(b) Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Structure Refinement Strategies for NMR Crystallography of Zeolites (outline)
D.H. Brouwer
Redeemer University College, Hamilton, Ontario
Advanced
material research
73Ge Solid-State NMR Investigation of Germanium Halides and Oxides Using
Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields and DFT Calculations (outline)
B. Greer. V. Michaelis, and S. Kroeker
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Solid-State 115In NMR Study of In+ in Neutral Weakly Coordinating Environments
(publication)
A. Lo and D. Bryce
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Solid-State 87Rb, 81Br and 127I NMR Studies of Chemical Shifts and Quadrupolar
Interactions in Alkali Halide Solid Solutions (outline)
C. Ratcliffe, J. Ripmeester, V. Terskikh
Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC Canada
Solid-State 73Ge NMR Characterization of Organogermanium Compounds (outline)
M.A. Hanson, Y. Huang, K. Baines
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
A
Solid-State 115In NMR Investigation of Indium(III)-Trihalide Phosphine Adducts
and of Octahedral Indium(III) Complexes (outline)
R.G. Cavell, F. Chen, G. Ma, R. Wasylishen
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Analysis of Chloride Ion Binding Environments in Organic and Inorganic
Systems Using Chlorine-35/37 Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy (outline)
B. Chapman and D. Bryce
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Multinuclear Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Selected Alkaline
Earth Metal Iodides (outline)
C.M. Widdifield and D. Bryce
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
NMR characterization of quadrupolar nuclei in solids (outline)
H. Hamaed, A. Rossini and R. Schurko
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
NMR
Applications
Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is widely used in chemistry for structural
analysis, in molecular biology and the pharmaceutical industry, in material
science, as MRI in clinical diagnostic, in industry.
High-resolution large-scale version of the poster on the right (NMR applications)
suitable for printing is available free of charge as a .ppt or .pdf file, please
inquire.
Solid-state
NMR spectroscopy has a wide and lasting impact especially on the development
of novel materials: catalysts, battery materials, gas storage materials (fuel
cells) and glasses. All have immediate applications in energy conservation and
the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In the materials area, developments
in nanotechnology also benefit tremendously from having access to a larger NMR
periodic table than is now routinely available, and the capability to work with
small samples. Another area that benefits greatly is the combinatorial approach
to materials synthesis where the gain in sensitivity (small sample size) and
application of ultra-fast spinning will lead to the rapid evaluation of new
concepts and products. A high-field NMR facility thus allows the greatly enhanced
use of a very powerful and discerning probe of solid-state structure to a wide
range of applications, including:
active
sites in catalysts; framework connectivities in catalysts and glasses (structure);
semiconductors, sensors, confined clusters for novel device applications; interfaces
in nanostructured materials and nanocomposites; combinatorial chemistry; biomolecules,
membranes and semisolids via fast spinning; polymers and polymer blends via
fast spinning; dynamics in polymers and biomolecules (small, multiple-labelled
samples); applications in mineral and environmental chemistry
The
new knowledge generated by solid-state NMR is finding many practical and commercial
applications, for example in the petrochemical industry (catalysts, polymers),
alternative energy (battery materials, fuel cells), materials fabrication
(alloys), high tech materials (glasses, ceramics, nanostructured materials),
electronics (novel devices), environmental applications (catalysts, sorbents,
membranes, sensor materials) and pharmaceuticals.
Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is widely used in chemistry for structural
analysis, in molecular biology and the pharmaceutical industry, in material
science, as MRI in clinical diagnostic, in industry.
active
sites in catalysts; framework connectivities in catalysts and glasses (structure);
semiconductors, sensors, confined clusters for novel device applications; interfaces
in nanostructured materials and nanocomposites; combinatorial chemistry; biomolecules,
membranes and semisolids via fast spinning; polymers and polymer blends via
fast spinning; dynamics in polymers and biomolecules (small, multiple-labelled
samples); applications in mineral and environmental chemistry
The
new knowledge generated by solid-state NMR is finding many practical and commercial
applications, for example in the petrochemical industry (catalysts, polymers),
alternative energy (battery materials, fuel cells), materials fabrication
(alloys), high tech materials (glasses, ceramics, nanostructured materials),
electronics (novel devices), environmental applications (catalysts, sorbents,
membranes, sensor materials) and pharmaceuticals.