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Iron NMR

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
 

Isotope
Natural 
Abundance
(%)
Nuclear Spin
(I)
Magnetogyric
ratio
(107*rad/T*s)
Quadruple 
moment
(1028*Q/m2)
Resonance
frequency
(MHz)
at 11.744T
(500 MHz for protons)
Relative 
sensitivity
(1H=1.00)
Absolute 
sensitivity
(1H=1.00)
57Fe
2.119
1/2
0.8680624
0
16.156
3.37*10-5
7.38*10-7
 
APPLICATION FIELDS
57Fe NMR spectroscopy has limited application on iron chemistry basically due to its very low sensitivity.
NMR REFERENCES
A typical external standard sample is Fe(CO)5. Its absolute frequency is 3.237778 MHz with respect to 100.00 MHz for TMS. Also see IUPAC recommendations for reporting the NMR chemical shits of all nuclei relative to the 1H resonance of TMS (02JMR323-156).
NMR PARAMETERS
Some interesting features of the Fe nucleus are:
NMR EXPERIMENTS
In iron-containing compounds the following experiments can be helpful: Intensity gain 1H-57Fe factors:
 
NOE
INEPT
Inverse INEPT
HMQC
16.4
30.8
171
5263
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Interesting review: B91PRE102.
The Transition Metals NMR: B79HAR195, 00ENC730 .

Examples of 57Fe NMR: 90JACS2804 , 90IC556-29 , 88HCA1116-71 , and 96ORG2469

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