Patent Application: US-92926411-A

Abstract:
a method for sample preparation for magnetic resonance measurements using hyperpolarization by dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization , involves preparation of frozen beads of a first kind containing paramagnetic substances in addition to the solute under investigation ; insertion of the frozen beads into a polarizing magnet ; creation of enhanced polarization of nuclei in a magnetic field ; heating of the sample to room temperature ; transfer of the sample to an mr magnet ; and carrying out an mr measurement . in addition , frozen beads of a second kind containing a reducing agent are prepared and inserted into the polarization magnet together with the frozen beads of the first kind . by this method , longitudinal and transverse relaxation times in nmr are extended and free radicals in hyperpolarized solutions are eliminated .

Description:
in laboratory tests it was observed how nitroxide radicals such as 4 - hydroxy - 2 , 2 , 6 , 6 - tetramethylpiperidine - 1 - oxyl ( tempol ) that are widely used for dnp at low temperatures can be reduced by scavengers like sodium ascorbate ( vitamin c ) during the dissolution process ( fig1 a ) into 2 , 2 , 6 , 6 - tetramethylpiperidine - 1 , 4 - diol ( tempohl ), thus extending transverse and longitudinal relaxation times of solutes . the frozen beads that contain 30 mm tempol in addition to the solute under investigation ( in laboratory tests , acrylic acid , choline and acetylcholine ( sarkar , r . ; comment , a . ; vasos , p . r . ; jannin , s . ; gruetter , r . ; bodenhausen , g . ; hall , h . ; kirik , d . ; denisov , v . p . j . am . chem . soc . 2009 , 131 , 16014 - 16015 ), alanine - glycine ( vasos , p . r . ; comment , a . ; sarkar , r . ; ahuja , p . ; jannin , s . ; ansermet , j . p . ; konter , j . a . ; hautle , p . ; van den brandt , b . ; bodenhausen , g . p . natl . acad . sci . usa 2009 , 106 , 18475 - 18479 ), ubiquitin ( sarkar , r . ; ahuja , p . ; vasos , p . r . ; bodenhausen , g . chem . phys . chem . 2008 , 9 , 2414 - 2419 ), lithium - 6 ( van heeswijk , r . b . ; uffmann , k . ; comment , a . ; kurdzesau , f . ; perazzolo , c . ; cudalbu , c . ; jannin , s . ; konter , j . a . ; hautle , p . ; van den brandt , b . ; navon , g . ; van der klink , j . j . ; gruetter , r . magn . reson . med . 2009 , 61 , 1489 - 1493 ), xenon - 129 , yttrium - 89 , etc . were studied ) with glass - forming solvents such as glycerol / water mixtures are inserted in the polarizer together with a roughly equal number of frozen beads that contain 3 m sodium ascorbate in d 2 o . during the dissolution process , all beads melt rapidly and the two solutions become intimately mixed , so that the tempol radicals are reduced by the sodium ascorbate during their voyage from the polarizing magnet to the nmr spectrometer or mri magnet . the kinetics of this reduction process can be studied at room temperature ( fig1 c ) by nmr or esr ( bardelang , d . ; banaszak , k . ; karoui , h . ; antal , r . ; waite , m . ; udachin , k . ; ripmeester , j . a . ; ratcliffe , c . i . ; ouari , o . ; tordo , p . j . am . chem . soc . 2009 , 131 , 5402 - 5404 ). in laboratory test the growth of the proton signal due to the four degenerate methyl groups of tempohl arising from the reduction of tempol by ascorbate were observed . a second - order rate constant k 2 = 0 . 201 ± 0 . 005 s − 1 · m − 1 was determined with 2 . 5 mm tempol and 30 mm sodium ascorbate . because of the excess of sodium ascorbate , the reduction can be described by a pseudo - first - order rate constant k 1 = 0 . 0060 ± 0 . 0002 s − 1 . the scavenging of tempol by ascorbate gives rise to delocalized ascorbyl radicals , which have been studied in solvents such as acetonitrile ( warren , j . j . ; mayer , j . m . j . am . chem . soc . 2008 , 130 , 7546 - 7547 ). in the presence of a proton - donating solvent , as in the water / glycerol or water / ethanol mixtures typically used in dissolution - dnp , ascorbyl radicals quickly disproportionate ( k 2 ˜ 3 × 105 s − 1 · m − 1 ) ( bielski , b . h . j . ; allen , a . o . ; schwarz , h . a . j . am . chem . soc . 1981 , 103 , 3516 - 3518 )( fig1 b ) in parallel to the scavenging process , resulting in solutions that do not contain any paramagnetic radicals . fig2 b shows how the scavenging of tempol by sodium ascorbate leads to a nearly three - fold extension of the longitudinal relaxation time of the most isolated proton h r in acrylic acid ( ch 2 ═ ch r cooh ), which has the longest lifetime t 1 . the lifetimes t lls of long - lived states ( carravetta , m . ; johannessen , o . g . ; levitt , m . h . phys . rev . lett . 2004 , 92 , 153003 - 153007 ; carravetta , m . ; levitt , m . h . j . chem . phys . 2005 , 122 , 214505 ; pileio , g . ; levitt , m . h . j . chem . phys . 2009 , 130 , 214501 ; sarkar , r . ; vasos , p . r . ; bodenhausen , g . j . am . chem . soc . 2007 , 129 , 328 - 334 ; pileio , g . ; carravetta , m . ; levitt , m . h . phys . rev . lett . 2009 , 103 , 083002 ) ( lls ) are exquisitely sensitive to paramagnetic relaxation . the scavenging of tempol by sodium ascorbate leads to a dramatic extension ( fig3 a ) of the lifetimes of the lls involving the two protons h i and h s in acrylic acid ( ch i h s ═ chcooh ). likewise , the lls associated with the two diastereotopic h α protons in glycine in the di - peptide ala - gly has a significantly extended lifetime after scavenging ( fig3 b ). the lls were excited ( sarkar , r . ; vasos , p . r . ; bodenhausen , g . j . am . chem . soc . 2007 , 129 , 328 - 334 ) and sustained by cw irradiation at t = 296 k and b 0 = 7 . 05 t , without dnp . long - lived coherences ( llc ) are also very sensitive to paramagnetic effects . the scavenging of tempol by sodium ascorbate leads to the extension of the lifetime t llc of the llc involving the two diastereotopic h α glycine protons in ala - gly from t llc = 1 . 18 to 2 . 75 s ( fig4 a and 4 b ). this corresponds to a reduction in the line - width from 270 to 115 mhz . the llc were excited and sustained by cw irradiation . in summary , it is possible to quench paramagnetic relaxation due to the stable radicals required for dissolution dnp by mixing the frozen beads containing the substance under investigation and the stable radicals with frozen beads containing a reducing agent such as ascorbic acid ( vitamin c ). abragam , a . ; goldman , m . rep . prog . phys . 1978 , 41 , 395 - 467 . comment , a . ; van den brandt , b . ; 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