Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance ›› 2012, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (2): 231-238.

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Structural Dependence of 13C Chemical Shifts in Solid Hydroxy- and Amino-Butyrate Metabolites

 REN Ping-Ping1,2, HUANG Jing1,2, ZHANG Li-Min1, TANG Hui-Ru1*   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Center of Magnetic Resonance (Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wuhan 430071, China; 
    2. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2011-05-12 Revised:2011-06-01 Online:2012-06-05 Published:2012-06-05
  • Supported by:

    国家自然科学基金资助项目(20825520, 20903115, 20921004);国家蛋白质重大科学研究计划资助项目(2007CB914701, 2010CB912501).

Abstract:

Butyrate metabolites are present in animals, plants and some microorganisms with various important biological functions. Many molecular features of the metabolites remain to be fully understood, including the characteristics of their structures in the solid states, molecular dynamics and the relationships between these two aspects. In this paper, the 13C chemical shifts of a series of amino- and hydroxylbutyrate metabolites were analyzed with 13C CP MAS NMR spectroscopy. Some structure-property relationships were observed. These metabolites had significant differences for their 13C chemical shifts in solution and the solid state. In the solid state, the presence of amino and hydroxyl groups had obvious contributions to such differences due to their participation in hydrogen-bonding whereas participation of methyl groups in hydrophobic interactions also had observable effects. These findings provide essential basic information for further understanding the structures, molecular dynamics and perhaps polymorphisms for these metabolites.

Key words: solid-state NMR, aminobutyrate, hydroxybutyrate,  13C chemical shift, structure-property relationship

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