Unmixing the NMR spectra of similar species - vive la difference

Adam A. Colbourne, Sebastian Meier, Gareth A. Morris, Lars Mathias Nilsson

28 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) is one of the most powerful methods for intact mixture analysis by NMR. However, the separation of overlapped spectra by current DOSY methods typically requires a minimum of 30% difference in diffusion coefficient. Here we present a new algorithm (OUTSCORE) that can improve the situation by almost an order of magnitude, allowing the unmixing of severely overlapped species of similar size, by combining least squares fitting with crosstalk minimisation, maximising spectral difference.
Original languageEnglish
JournalChemical Communications
Volume49
Issue number89
Pages (from-to)10510-10512
Number of pages3
ISSN1359-7345
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Oct 2013

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