Functionalized Magnetic Resonance Beacons for Enhanced Spectroscopy and Imaging

Project Information

FunMagResBeacons

Grant agreement ID: 786707

DOI 10.3030/786707

EC signature date 15 May 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 30 September 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 762 223,00

EU contribution € 2 762 223,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Weak nuclear spin singlet relaxation mechanisms revealed by experiment and computation

Author(s): Alexej Jerschow; Boris B. Kharkov; Xue-You Duan; Jyrki Rantaharju; Mohamed Sabba; Malcolm H. Levitt; James W. Canary
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 7531-7538, ISSN 1463-9084
Publisher: RSC
DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05537b

A Solid-State Intramolecular Wittig Reaction Enables Efficient Synthesis of Endofullerenes Including Ne@C60, 3He@C60, and HD@C60

Author(s): Gabriela Hoffman; Mark C. Walkey; John Gräsvik; George Razvan Bacanu; Shamim Alom; Sally Bloodworth; Mark E. Light; Malcolm H. Levitt; Richard J. Whitby
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202100817

15N hyperpolarisation of the antiprotozoal drug ornidazole by Signal Amplification By Reversible Exchange in aqueous medium

Author(s): Wissam Iali; Gamal A. I. Moustafa; Gamal A. I. Moustafa; Laurynas Dagys; Soumya Singha Roy
Published in: Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 1199-1207, ISSN 1097-458X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5144

Direct Production of A Hyperpolarized Metabolite on a Microfluidic Chip

Author(s): Sylwia J. Barker; Laurynas Dagys; William Hale; Barbara Ripka; James Eills; Manvendra Sharma; Malcolm H. Levitt; Marcel Utz
Published in: Analytical Chemistry, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 3260-3267, ISSN 0003-2700
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.06816

<i>Geminal</i> parahydrogen-induced polarization: accumulating long-lived singlet order on methylene proton pairs

Author(s): Laurynas Dagys, Barbara Ripka, Markus Leutzsch, Gamal A. I. Moustafa, James Eills, Johannes F. P. Colell, Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: Magnetic Resonance, Issue 1/2, 2020, Page(s) 175-186, ISSN 2699-0016
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/mr-1-175-2020

³¹P spin–lattice and singlet order relaxation mechanisms in pyrophosphate studied by isotopic substitution, field shuttling NMR, and molecular dynamics simulation

Author(s): David E. Korenchan; Jiaqi Lu; Mohamed Sabba; Laurynas Dagys; Lynda J. Brown; Malcolm H. Levitt; Alexej Jerschow
Published in: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 24238-24245, ISSN 1463-9084
Publisher: RSC
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03801c

Singlet-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Unlocking Hyperpolarization with Metabolism*.

Author(s): James Eills; Eleonora Cavallari; Raphael Kircher; Ginevra Di Matteo; Carla Carrera; Laurynas Dagys; Malcolm H. Levitt; Konstantin L. Ivanov; Silvio Aime; Francesca Reineri; Kerstin Münnemann; Dmitry Budker; Gerd Buntkowsky; Stephan Knecht
Published in: Angewandte Chemie / International edition, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 6791-6798, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.12863639.v2

Centralizer theory for long-lived spin states.

Author(s): Christian Bengs
Published in: J. Chem. Phys., Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 244107, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0050419

First Synthesis and Characterization of CH ₄ @C ₆₀

Author(s): Sally Bloodworth; Gabriela Sitinova; Shamim Alom; Sara Vidal; George R. Bacanu; Stuart J. Elliott; Mark E. Light; Julie M. Herniman; G. John Langley; Malcolm H. Levitt; Richard J. Whitby
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 1, 2019, Page(s) 5038-5043, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201900983

Deuteron-Decoupled Singlet NMR in Low Magnetic Fields: Application to the Hyperpolarization of Succinic Acid.

Author(s): Laurynas Dagys; Christian Bengs; Gamal A. I. Moustafa; Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: ChemPhysChem, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) e202200274, ISSN 1439-7641
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200274

Low-frequency excitation of singlet-triplet transitions. Application to nuclear hyperpolarization.

Author(s): Laurynas Dagys; Christian Bengs; Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 154201, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0065863

Hyperpolarization read-out through rapidly rotating fields in the zero- and low-field regime

Author(s): Laurynas Dagys; Christian Bengs
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 8321-8328, ISSN 1463-9084
Publisher: RSC
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.04604

Nuclear Singlet Relaxation by Chemical Exchange

Author(s): Christian Bengs; Laurynas Dagys; Gamal A. I. Moustafa; James W. Whipham; Mohamed Sabba; Alexey S. Kiryutin; Konstantin L. Ivanov; Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 124311, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0066182

Hyperpolarized long-lived nuclear spin states in monodeuterated methyl groups

Author(s): Stuart J. Elliott, Benno Meier, Basile Vuichoud, Gabriele Stevanato, Lynda J. Brown, Javier Alonso-Valdesueiro, Lyndon Emsley, Sami Jannin, Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 20/15, 2018, Page(s) 9755-9759, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00253c

First Synthesis and Characterization of CH 4 @C 60

Author(s): Sally Bloodworth, Gabriela Sitinova, Shamim Alom, Sara Vidal, George R. Bacanu, Stuart J. Elliott, Mark E. Light, Julie M. Herniman, G. John Langley, Malcolm H. Levitt, Richard J. Whitby
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 58/15, 2019, Page(s) 5038-5043, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201900983

Long live the singlet state!

Author(s): Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Issue 306, 2019, Page(s) 69-74, ISSN 1090-7807
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.07.029

Fast destruction of singlet order in NMR experiments

Author(s): Bogdan A. Rodin, Kirill F. Sheberstov, Alexey S. Kiryutin, Lynda J. Brown, Richard C. D. Brown, Mohamed Sabba, Malcolm H. Levitt, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya, Konstantin L. Ivanov
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 151/23, 2019, Page(s) 234203, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5131730

A master equation for spin systems far from equilibrium

Author(s): Christian Bengs, Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Issue 310, 2020, Page(s) 106645, ISSN 1090-7807
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.106645

Generalised magnetisation-to-singlet-order transfer in nuclear magnetic resonance

Author(s): Christian Bengs, Mohamed Sabba, Alexej Jerschow, Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 22/17, 2020, Page(s) 9703-9712, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00935k

Algorithmic cooling of nuclear spins using long-lived singlet order

Author(s): Bogdan A. Rodin, Christian Bengs, Alexey S. Kiryutin, Kirill F. Sheberstov, Lynda J. Brown, Richard C. D. Brown, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya, Konstantin L. Ivanov, Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 152/16, 2020, Page(s) 164201, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0006742

Synthesis of Ar@C60 using molecular surgery.

Author(s): Sally Bloodworth; Gabriela Hoffman; Mark C. Walkey; George Razvan Bacanu; Julie Herniman; Malcolm H. Levitt; Richard J. Whitby
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 10521-10524, ISSN 1364-548X
Publisher: RSC
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04201c

Tuning of pH enables carbon-13 hyperpolarization of oxalates by SABRE.

Author(s): Soumya S. Roy; Wissam Iali; Gamal A. I. Moustafa; Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: Chem. Commun., Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 2291-2294, ISSN 1364-548X
Publisher: RSC
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc06973j

An Internuclear J -Coupling of 3 He Induced by Molecular Confinement

Author(s): George Razvan Bacanu, Jyrki Rantaharju, Gabriela Hoffman, Mark C. Walkey, Sally Bloodworth, Maria Concistrè, Richard J. Whitby, Malcolm H. Levitt
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 142/40, 2020, Page(s) 16926-16929, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c08586

Hyperpolarization and the physical boundary of Liouville space

Author(s): Malcolm H. Levitt; Christian Bengs
Published in: Magnetic Resonance, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 395-407, ISSN 2699-0016
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/mr-2021-26

Rapid hyperpolarization and purification of the metabolite fumarate in aqueous solution

Author(s): Stephan Knecht, John W. Blanchard, Danila Barskiy, Eleonora Cavallari, Laurynas Dagys, Erik Van Dyke, Maksim Tsukanov, Bea Bliemel, Kerstin Münnemann, Silvio Aime, Francesca Reineri, Malcolm H. Levitt, Gerd Buntkowsky, Alexander Pines, Peter Blümler, Dmitry Budker, James Eills
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 118/13, 2021, Page(s) e2025383118, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025383118