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DETERMINATION OF ROTATIONAL REORIENTATION CORRELATION TIME AND 59Co NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLAR COUPLING CONSTANT OF POLYAMMONIUM MACROCYCLIC COBALTICYANIDE SUPERCOMPLEXES IN DILUTE AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS——An Application of Dynamic Laser Light Scattering Method

ZHOU Ping1*,  AU-YEUNG Steve C. F.2   

  1. 1. The Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Ministry of Education. Macromolecular Science Department, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; =
    2. Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Received:2003-04-14 Revised:2003-07-23 Published:2003-12-05 Online:2003-12-05
  • About author:ZHOU Ping:Associate professor& Dr.,Majoring in the field of structure and function of biopolymers, E-mail: pingzhou@fudan.edu.cn,Tel:+86-21-55664038,Fax:+86-21-65640293,*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
  • Supported by:

    The project was supported by NSFC (No.20274009,  29974004).

Abstract:

The correlation time, τc, and the nuclear quadrupolar coupling constant (NQCC) of I>1/2 nuclei are important parameters for characterizing local and microdynamic structures of molecules. However, it is often difficult to determine those constants in solution. In this study, τc and NQCC of the 59Co nuclei were determined for a series of supercomplexes [12] aneN4[Co(CN)6], [18]aneN6[Co(CN)6], [24]aneN8[Co(CN)6], [16]aneN4[CoCN)6], [24]aneN6[Co(CN)6] and [32]aneN8[Co(CN)6] in dilute solution. The Dynamic Laser Light Scattering (DLLS) method, which is now widely used in macromolecule research, was first applied to determine the hydrodynamic radii (0.4~0.6 nm) of these molecules. Based on the Stokes-Einstein-Debye equation and the measured hydrodynamic radii, the rotational reorientation correlation times τc were calculated. τc obtained in this study had a range of 3.8~9.5×10-11s, which arefairly reasonable for molecules with molecular  weights of about 300~500. Finally, NQCC of the 59Co nuclei in the supercomplexes were determined by combining the τc values calculated and the experimentally measured longitudinal relaxation times, T1, of the 59Co nuclei. The NQCC values obtained ranged from 0.5 to 2.2 MHz, which are considerably lower than those extracted from solid static NMR lineshape (5 to 7 MHz). The difference is probabl
y due to the structural effects originating from the anisotropy of local electric gradient around 59Co nucleus in solid.

Key words: 59Co NMR, correlation time, nuclear quadrupolar coupling constant, laser light scattering, supercomplex

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