High- and low-field NMR in binary solvent gradients

Hussain, Haider, Putko, Paulina, Gołowicz, Dariusz, Kazimierczuk, Krzysztof and Wallace, Matthew (2026) High- and low-field NMR in binary solvent gradients. Analyst. ISSN 0003-2654

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Abstract

We introduce composition gradients of the solvent as a powerful new dimension for NMR analysis on both high-field and benchtop instruments. Taking advantage of the differences in the density and miscibility of binary solvent mixtures with different compositions, we layer two solutions at opposite extremes of the compositional range in an NMR tube. The diffusion of the layers into each other establishes a continuous variation in the solvent composition across the sample. Spatially resolved analysis of the sample using either chemical shift imaging (CSI) on high-field NMR instruments or physical movement of the sample (benchtop instruments) enables analysis of chemical systems as a function of the solvent composition. In high field, we determine the pK a of poorly water-soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in a wide range of compositions of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO)/water and perform accurate extrapolations to aqueous pK a using the Yasuda-Shedlovsky method. We thus condense hours of tedious experiments, where the pK a would be determined separately at each solvent composition, into a single 20 minute experiment. We can also detect the minimum quantity of DMSO required to maintain an API in the freely dissolved state. On a benchtop instrument, we demonstrate how our approach enables the transfer of resonance assignments between spectra of the same compound (asarone) acquired in different solvents (methanol and DMSO). We also show that the method can boost the spectral resolution of complex molecular mixtures (naproxen tablet) via the differential solubility of the components in the two solvents.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data availability: Additional data supporting this article are available in the supplementary information (SI). Research data will be available at: https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/datasets/. The pulse sequences and processing scripts are freely available on the UEA Digital Repository (https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/datasets/data-for-measurement-of-the-pka-values-of-organic-molecules-in-aq/) in conjunction with our prior published work. Supplementary information: experimental and calculation procedures, plots for NMR indicators. See DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d6an00031b.
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
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Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2026 09:31
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2026 10:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102631
DOI:	10.1039/D6AN00031B

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