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We report a simple, efficient method for carrying out nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments at high temperature in any NMR probe without modification. The sample tube is coated with a thin film of metal and the rf coil used for the NMR experiment is used to inductively heat the film, thus heating the sample inside the tube. Using this approach, we have obtained both proton and high-resolution carbon-13 NMR spectra at temperatures as high as 730 K.

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SYNOPSISThe motion of nitroxide spin probes and spin labels in amorphous polymers is studied below the glass transition temperature with a two-dimensional pulsed electron doubleresonance experiment. Polystyrene and a liquid crystalline side group polymer are studied using both spin probes and spin labels covalently bound to specific sites along the polymer chain. Two methyl acrylic polymers differing only in their side group structure and polyvinylacetate are compared and large differences in the molecular dynamics deduced from both the nuclear and the electron spin relaxation rates are observed as the glass transition is approached. The results demonstrate the complexity of small amplitude motion in simple polymers below the glass transition temperature and show that it is very sensitive to the packing in the polymer. 0 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Keywords: EPR spin label spin probe spin relaxation correlation time distributions electron double resonance amorphous polymers side group liquid crystalline polymer

The combination of concepts of two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy with the well-known field step electron–electron double resonance (ELDOR) method offers a practical route to recording 2D ELDOR spectra covering the full spectral range needed for electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) of nitroxide spin labels in the solid state. The 2D ELDOR pattern provides information about molecular reorientation measured in real time, the anisotropies of electron phase, and electron spin-lattice relaxation as well as nuclear spin-lattice relaxation all of which are connected with the detailed geometry of the molecular reorientation. Thus, in 2D ELDOR the same electron spin probes the motional behavior over a wide range of correlation times from 10−4 to 10−12 s. An efficient algorithm for simulating 2D ELDOR spectra is derived, based on analytical solutions of the spin relaxation behavior for small-angle fluctuations and offers a means of quantitatively analyzing experimental data. As an example, the motion of nitroxide spin labels in a liquid-crystalline side-group polymer well below its glass transition is determined as a β-relaxation process with a mean angular amplitude of 5° and a distribution of correlation times with a mean correlation time of 0.9×10−10 s and a width of 2.5 decades.