Quantitative analysis using external standards with a benchtop NMR spectrometer

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Elsevier BV
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Language
eng
Date
2020
Authors
Lee Y
Matviychuk, Yevgen
Holland, Daniel
Abstract

This paper investigates the use of benchtop NMR spectrometers for quantitative analysis with external standards. Specifically, it focuses on the measurement of aqueous samples with analyte concentrations ranging from 30 mM to 1.7 M and electrical conductivity of up to 84mScm-1 using a 43 MHz instrument. It is demonstrated that measurements using the PULCON method cannot achieve an average error in quantification of <4% with the benchtop NMR tested here unless the standard and analyte are very similar. Our analysis indicates that this comparatively large error arises from the fixed tuning and matching of the benchtop spectrometer. We confirm that for moderately dilute samples (less than 0.2 M), the integral area of the solvent peak is suitable for use as an internal standard to mitigate this error. Furthermore, a round robin study demonstrates that the second major source of uncertainty in these measurements arises from the manual processing of the spectra by different analysts. Here we propose heuristics for manual baseline and phase correction to reduce this analyst-dependent error to about 3 %. We also demonstrate that semi-automated quantification using qGSD is able to achieve similar accuracy of integration, but with reduced sensitivity to the processing of the operator.

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Lee Y, Matviychuk Y, Holland DJ (2020). Quantitative analysis using external standards with a benchtop NMR spectrometer. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 320. 106826-.
Keywords
Benchtop instruments, External standard, Medium-field NMR, Mixture analysis, Quantitative NMR spectroscopy
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ANZSRC fields of research
34 - Chemical sciences::3401 - Analytical chemistry::340101 - Analytical spectrometry
34 - Chemical sciences::3401 - Analytical chemistry::340107 - Quality assurance, chemometrics, traceability and metrological chemistry
51 - Physical sciences::5102 - Atomic, molecular and optical physics::510203 - Nonlinear optics and spectroscopy
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