Category Archives: Our Research

These are short reports about the research activities carried out at the SeRMN.
In them we describe the work done in collaboration with research groups, to summarize communications presented at scientific meetings, to report visits and stages at other laboratories or facilities, and to comment the meetings and workshops we have attended.

Review: Recent Advances in Small Molecule NMR: Improved HSQC and HSQMBC Experiments

2015-03-02Methods & Applications, NMR Bibliography, Our Publications, Our ResearchHOBS-HSQC, HOBS-HSQMBC, HSQC, HSQMBC, IPAP, nmr, one-bond proton-carbon coupling constants, perfect HSQC, PIP experiments, proton-carbon coupling constants, pure-shift NMR, quantitative nmr, SAPS-HSQCLaura

“Recent Advances in Small Molecule NMR: Improved HSQC and HSQMBC Experiments” by Laura Castañar and Teodor Parella. Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, 2015, 84:163–232. DOI: 10.1016/bs.arnmr.2014.10.004

A general description of the latest developments in heteronuclear single-quantum correlation and heteronuclear single-quantum multiple bond correlation experiments designed for small molecules at the natural isotopic abundance is reported. Continue reading Review: Recent Advances in Small Molecule NMR: Improved HSQC and HSQMBC Experiments →

Automation in ¹J_CH measurements from Pure Shift NMR experiments

2014-11-26Our Research, Seminarshomonuclear decoupling, java_applet, Jres, proton-carbon coupling constants, software_developmentPau

SeRMN seminar

Date: Thursday 27th November, 2014
Hour: 12 am
Location: SeRMN, Facultats de Ciències i Biociències, C2/-135
Speaker: Dr. Pau Nolis, SeRMN

A preliminary version of an applet that performs the authomatic measurement of 1J(CH) couplings from homodecoupled iINEPT-Jres HSQC experiment will be presented. Continue reading Automation in ¹J_CH measurements from Pure Shift NMR experiments →

Hyperpolarized 13C Magnetic Resonance in Acute Liver Failure Rats

2014-10-24Methods & Applications, Our Publications, Our Research13C-NMR, animal-model, biospec, DNP, hyperpolarization, in-vivo-DNP, metabolomics, MRI, MRSSilvia

“Real-time assessment of ¹³C metabolism reveals an early lactate increase in the brain of rats with acute liver failure” by Laia Chavarria, Jordi Romero-Giménez, Eva Monteagudo, Silvia Lope-Piedrafita, Juan Cordoba. NMR in Biomedicine (2014) 28:17-23. DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3226

Intracranial hypertension is a severe complication of acute liver failure (ALF) secondary to brain edema. The pathogenesis of cerebral edema in ALF is not clear, but seems to be related to energy metabolism in which lactate may have an important role. The aim of this study was to follow the synthesis of brain lactate using a novel in vivo metabolic technology in a rat model of ALF. Continue reading Hyperpolarized 13C Magnetic Resonance in Acute Liver Failure Rats →

Opposite metabolic responses of shoots and roots to drought

2014-10-08Our Publications, Our ResearchLC, metabolomics, MSAlbert Gargallo

scireports “Opposite metabolic responses of shoots and roots to drought” by Albert Gargallo-Garriga, Jordi Sardans, Míriam Pérez-Trujillo, Albert Rivas-Ubach, Michal Oravec, Teodor Parella and Josep Peñuelas. Scientific reports 4, Article number: 6829, October 2014. DOI: 10.1038/srep06829

Shoots and roots are autotrophic and heterotrophic organs of plants with different physiological functions. Do they have different metabolomes? Do their metabolisms respond differently to environmental changes such as drought? We used metabolomics and elemental analyses to answer these questions. Continue reading Opposite metabolic responses of shoots and roots to drought →

Diversity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in native and invasive Senecio pterophorus (Asteraceae): Implications for toxicity

2014-10-06Methods & Applications, Our Publications, Our Researchalkaloids, ecology, phytochemistry, toxicityMiriam

“Diversity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in native and invasive Senecio pterophorus (Asteraceae): Implications for toxicity” by Eva Castells, Patrick P.J. Mulder and Miriam Perez-Trujillo. Phytochemistry (2014) 108:137-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2014.09.006

Changes in plant chemical defenses after invasion could have consequences on the invaded ecosystems by modifying the interactions between plants and herbivores and facilitating invasion success. However, no comprehensive biogeographical studies have yet determined the phenotypic levels of plant chemical defenses, as consumed by local herbivores, covering large distributional areas of a species. Continue reading Diversity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in native and invasive Senecio pterophorus (Asteraceae): Implications for toxicity →

Perfect-HSQC experiments: pure in-phase spectra

2014-10-04Methods & Applications, Our Publications, Our Researchheteronulear coupling constants, HSQC, one-bond proton-carbon coupling constants, perfect HSQC, proton-proton coupling constants, pure in-phase signalsLaura

“Suppresión of phase and amplitude J_HH modulations in HSQC experiments” by Laura Castañar, Eduard Sistaré, Albert Virgili, Robert Thomas Williamson and Teodor Parella. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2014 , 53:115-119. DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4149

The amplitude and the phase of cross peaks in conventional 2D HSQC experiments are modulated by both proton–proton, J_HH, and proton–carbon, ¹J_CH, coupling constants. It is shown by spectral simulation and experimentally that J_HH interferences are suppressed in a novel perfect-HSQC pulse scheme that incorporates perfect-echo INEPT periods. Continue reading Perfect-HSQC experiments: pure in-phase spectra →

SeRMN presentations at the 2014 Ibero-American NMR & GERMN Bienal & Iberian NMR meeting

2014-09-15Methods & Applications, NMR Events & Courses, Our Researchchirality, enantiodifferentiation, enhanced resolution, full sensitivity, HOBS, HOBS-TOCSY, homodecoupling, homonuclear decoupling, multipl, pure-shift NMRLaura

Some of our last research work will be presented next week at the VI Ibero-American NMR – VII GERMN Bienal – IV Iberian NMR joint meeting that will take place in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain) from 22^nd to 25^th September. Find below a summary of our contributions.

Laura Castañar presents an oral communication and a poster entitled “Enantiodifferentiation throgh frequency-selective pure shift ¹H NMR”. NMR-aided discrimination of enantiomers using chiral solvating agents (CSAs) is a well established method to carry out enantiodifferentiation studies. Continue reading SeRMN presentations at the 2014 Ibero-American NMR & GERMN Bienal & Iberian NMR meeting →

SeRMN presentations at the SMASH NMR 2014 Conference

2014-08-13News from the SeRMN, NMR Events & Courses, Our Publications, Our ResearchTeo

Some of our last research works will be presented at the annual meeting of the Small Molecule NMR Conference (SMASH) that will take place in Atlanta (USA) from 7^th to 10^th September 2014.

- Dr. Teodor Parella is a program Co-Chair.

Dr. Josep Saurí will give the talk New Methods for the Sign-Sensitive Determination of Homo- and Heteronuclear Coupling Constants in the “Analysis of Chiral Molecules and Related NMR Methods” session.

Continue reading SeRMN presentations at the SMASH NMR 2014 Conference →

Simultaneous 1H and 13C NMR enantiodifferentiation from highly-resolved pure shift HSQC spectra

2014-07-17Methods & Applications, Our Publications, Our Researchchirality, enantiodifferentiation, enhanced resolution, homodecoupling, homonuclear decoupling, HSQC, pure-shift NMR, spectral aliasingMiriam

“Simultaneous ¹H and ¹³C NMR enantiodifferentiation from highly-resolved pure shift HSQC spectra” by Miriam Pérez-Trujillo, Laura Castañar, Eva Monteagudo, Lars T. Kuhn, Pau Nolis, Albert Virgili, R. Thomas Williamson and Teodor Parella. Chemical Communications 50:10214-10217 (2014). DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04077E

NMR-aided discrimination of enantiomers using chiral solvating agents (CSAs) is a well established method of enantiodifferentiation and measurement of enantiomeric ratios (er). The analysis is traditionally performed by observing chemical shift differences (ΔΔδ) in ¹H signals by conventional 1D ¹H NMR spectra. However, low ΔΔδ values and signal overlap caused by complex multiplets lead to the lack of spectral signal dispersion that preclude a straightforward analysis. Continue reading Simultaneous 1H and 13C NMR enantiodifferentiation from highly-resolved pure shift HSQC spectra →

Pure In-Phase Heteronuclear Correlation NMR Experiments

2014-06-27Methods & Applications, Our Publications, Our Researchheteronulear coupling constants, HSQC, HSQMBC, IPAP, PIP experiments, proton-carbon coupling constants, proton-proton coupling constantsLaura

“Pure In-Phase Heteronuclear Correlation NMR Experiments ” by Laura Castañar, Josep Sauri, Robert Thomas Williamson, Albert Virgili and Teodor Parella. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 8379-8382. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404136

A general NMR approach to provide pure in-phase (PIP) multiplets in heteronuclear correlation experiments is described. The implementation of a z-filter efficiently suppresses any unwanted anti-phase contributions that usually distort the multiplet pattern of cross-peaks and can make their analysis difficult. Continue reading Pure In-Phase Heteronuclear Correlation NMR Experiments →

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