Camryn Jayne Newman1, Yurii Shepelytskyi2,3, Ashvin Fernando4, Paul T Cesana4, Tao Li5, Alanna Wade5, Vira Grynko3, Adriana M Mendieta4, Francis T Hane2,5, Brenton DeBoef4, and Mitchell S Albert2,5,6
1Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 2Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 3Chemistry and Material Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 4Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States, 5Chemistry, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 6Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
1Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 2Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 3Chemistry and Material Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 4Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States, 5Chemistry, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 6Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
We detected the hyperCEST effect of decacationic P5A with 10 methylimidazolium groups. Our results demonstrated that the presence of cationic methylimidazolium groups did not affect the interaction of the inner cavity and xenon.
Fig. 1. The chemical structure of the studied pillar-5-arene
Fig. 2. The obtained hyperCEST depletion spectrum of decacationic pillar-5-arene. The cage peak was observed at -78 ppm with respect to the dissolved phase. The solid blue line represents the Lorentzian fit of the measured spectrum.
