“…The RF field amplitude used for all the experiments was 50 -60 kHz for both 1 H and 13 C. As reported on europium acetate and sodium neodymium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (23), continuous-wave (CW) 1 H decoupling was found not to be effective to the lanthanide ethylsulfates because of the wide spread of 1 H resonance frequencies caused by the paramagnetic ions. The static 13 C NMR spectra of the lanthanide ethylsulfates were recorded under frequency-switched 1 H decoupling, whose frequency is switched every among three different 1 H offsets, Ϫf, 0, and f, while the phase and the amplitude are kept constant.…”