“…Liu et al (2002) suggest that perhaps the size of the aluminosilicate clusters may not be sufficiently large to account for all of the contributions to the C q and that this discrepancy maybe an artifact of the theoretical method. However, there is excellent agreement between calculated and experimentally-derived C q s for all nuclei in simple alcohol and amide complexes (Ludwig et al, 1995;Farrar et al, 1999). Furthermore, from the current work and in Kubicki and Toplis (2002), 27 Al C q values generally seem to be overestimated by Ϸ1 MHz wherever comparisons are unambiguous, significantly less than the predicted change of 10 MHz with protonation of the bridging oxygen.…”