Roderick E. Wasylishen, Canada Research Chair in Physical Chemistry, Department of -Chemistry, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Sharon E. Ashbrook, Reader, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK.

Stephen Wimperis, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Physical Sciences, -University of Glasgow, UK.

Many important materials do not contain spin-1/2 nuclei traditionally investigated by NMR spectroscopy and secondly, dissolving solid materials in a solvent may be impossible or may destroy the integrity of the material. All these obstacles can be overcome by NMR experiments at high-magnetic field strengths and investigating the properties of quadrupolar nuclei.
This Handbook gives an up-to-date account of NMR of quadrupoloar nuclei in the solid state. Each chapter of the Handbook has been prepared by an expert who has made significant contributions to our understanding and appreciation of the importance of NMR studies of quadrupolar nuclei in solids. The text is divided into three Parts: A) Basic Principles of Quadrupolar NMR, B) Advanced Solid-State NMR Techniques to Investigate Quadrupolar Nuclei and C) Applications Involving NMR Studies of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids.
The first section provides the reader with the background necessary to appreciate the challenges in acquiring and interpreting NMR spectra of quadrupolar nuclei in solids. The second section presents cutting-edge techniques and methodology for employing these spectroscopic techniques to investigate quadrupolar nuclei in solids. The final section explores applications of solid-state NMR studies of solids ranging from investigations of biological samples to porous materials, catalysts, geological samples and high-temperature superconductors.
All these articles will be published on EMR: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470034590

Contributors ix
Series Preface xiii
Volume Preface xv
Part A Basic Principles
1 Quadrupolar Interactions
Pascal P. Man
2 Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids
Alexander J. Vega
3 Quadrupolar Coupling: An Introduction and Crystallographic Aspects
Sharon E. Ashbrook, Stephen Wimperis
4 Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids: Influence of Different Interactions on Spectra
David L. Bryce, Roderick E. Wasylishen
Part B Advanced Techniques
5 Acquisition of Wideline Solid-State NMR Spectra of Quadrupolar Nuclei
Robert W. Schurko
6 Sensitivity and Resolution Enhancement of Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solid-State NMR
Thomas T. Nakashima, Roderick E. Wasylishen
7 Quadrupolar Nutation Spectroscopy
Arno P. M. Kentgens
8 Dynamic Angle Spinning
Philip J. Grandinetti
9 Double Rotation (DOR) NMR
Ray Dupree
10 MQMAS NMR: Experimental Strategies
Jean-Paul Amoureux, Marek Pruski
11 STMAS NMR: Experimental Advances
Sharon E. Ashbrook, Stephen Wimperis
12 Correlation Experiments Involving Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei
Michael Deschamps, Dominique Massiot
13 Computing Electric Field Gradient Tensors
Josef W. Zwanziger
Part C. Applications
14 Quadrupolar NMR to Investigate Dynamics in Solid Materials
Luke A. O'Dell, Christopher I. Ratcliffe
15 Alkali Metal NMR of Biological Molecules
Gang Wu
16 Nitrogen-14 NMR Studies of Biological Systems
Luminita Duma
17 Oxygen-17 NMR Studies of Organic and Biological Molecules
Gang Wu
18 Oxygen-17 NMR of Inorganic Materials
Sharon E. Ashbrook, Mark E. Smith
19 Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine Solid-State NMR
David L. Bryce, Cory M. Widdifield, Rebecca P. Chapman, Robert J. Attrell
20 Quadrupolar NMR of Ionic Conductors, Batteries, and other Energy-Related Materials
Frédéric Blanc, Leigh Spencer, Gillian R. Goward
21 Quadrupolar NMR of Nanoporous Materials
Mohamed Haouas, Charlotte Martineau, Francis Taulelle
22 Quadrupolar NMR in the Earth Sciences
Jonathan F. Stebbins
23 Quadrupolar NMR of Superconductors
Nicholas J. Curro
24 Quadrupolar NMR of Semiconductors
James P. Yesinowski
25 Quadrupolar NMR of Metal Nuclides in Biological Materials
Tatyana Polenova, Andrew S. Lipton, Paul D. Ellis
26 Nuclear Waste Glasses: Insights from Solid-State NMR
Scott Kroeker
27 Quadrupolar Metal NMR of Oxide Materials Including Catalysts
Olga B. Lapina, Victor V. Terskikh
28 Quadrupolar NMR of Intermetallic Compounds
Frank Haarmann
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