Satellite-Transition MAS: A New Technique for

High-Resolution Quadrupolar NMR

(short statement of outcomes for GR/T23824)

 

There was no significant difference between the planned and actual expenditure on the grant: Dr Michael Thrippleton was recruited from MIT and Miss Teresa Kurkiewicz from Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun and both spent ~3 years as postdoc and project student, respectively, working on the development of STMAS and MQMAS NMR spectroscopy in my laboratory.

 

Michael is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, using MRI to study the female pelvis. Teresa has gone back to Poland, where she is getting interviews with research groups using solution NMR to study protein structure and function; first drafts of some chapters of her PhD thesis have been completed and I expect her to submit this year.

 

Highlights of the funded research include:

 

            Ð 5 papers published or submitted so far in refereed journals; at least 1 more to follow

 

            Ð 2 of these papers appeared as "Editor's Choice" in Chemical Physics Letters

 

            Ð 1 talk presented at the Christmas 2007 Meeting of BRSG: The Magnetic Resonance Group by Michael Thrippleton; 5 talks presented at national and international conferences by Steve Wimperis with results from this project

 

            Ð 2 international poster presentations by Teresa Kurkiewicz

 

                                               

                                                                                                Steve Wimperis

                                                                                                Glasgow, 26 March 2010