First application of qNMR for the mixture of glycine and beta-alanine

Follow last blog about qNMR, now this blog shows the demo about how to quantitative analysis using NMR spectroscopic tools. Here, we quantified the content of the mixture included glycine and alanine...

1. Introduction

You can referece the last post about what's qNMR. Here we will shows How's qNMR.

2. Experimental

1H NMR experiments were carried out using Bruker 5mm CPBBO spectrometer operating at 600.13 MHz, 298K. The typical acquisition parameters optimized for qNMR were as follows: bruker pulse program zg30, acquisition time 2.73s, sweep width 12019.2 Hz, relaxation delay 10s( this parameter must be optimized, and more than five times the longest T1 ). 64k data points after 32 scans, and an exponential line-broadening function of 0.3 Hz applied to FID.

3. Materials

59.21mg of Glycine ( Sangon Biotech, 99%) and 53.49mg of β-Alanine ( Sangon Biotech 98.5%) were accurately weighed by a Sartorius analytical balances with a readability 0.01 mg, and transferred into an 5mm NMR tube (Schott NMR sample tubes), with adding D2O solvent( 99.9% purity with TMS).

4. Results and Discussion

Figure 1. 1H NMR spectra of the mixture of Glycine and β-Alanine in D2O solvent.


Figure 2. 1H NMR spectra of Glycine NH2 with coupling C13 and β-Alanine CH2 with coupling.

Table 1.

NAME MOLAR WEIGHT NUM. PROTON PURITY W INTERGRAL S/N
Glycine 75.07 2(NH2,3.56ppm) 0.99 59.21mg 100 92375
β-Alanine 89.09 2(CH2,3.18ppm) 0.985 53.40mg 75.3427 35340
β-Alanine 89.09 2(CH2,2.56ppm) 0.985 53.40mg 75.3822 67547

As qNMR's theory, the intensity of the 1H signal is directly proportional to the number of protons that give rise to the signal, as following:


the bais is 1.1%.

Table 2. with C13 satillate

NAME INTEGRAL
Glycine 100
β-Alanine 75.6207
β-Alanine 75.4550

the bais is 0.8%.