Springer (part of Springer Nature), Applied Magnetic Resonance, 3-4(30), p. 513-534
DOI: 10.1007/bf03166215
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Coherent polarization transfer among groups of dynamically polarized spins is explored and applied to field cycling experiments where spin evolution proceeds at low magnetic field while ob-servation is performed at high field. The case of two nonequivalent spins-112 with scalar spin cou-pling is considered theoretically in detail for the cases of sudden and adiabatic field change. The criterion for efficient polarization transfer is derived theoretically and consistently confirmed experi-mentally for three photochemical reactions, involving spin systems of increasing complexity that exhibit chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization: (I) the two polarized protons of the purine base of adenosine monophosphate; (2) four coupled indole protons of tryptophan; and (3) long-range polar-ization transfer among the aliphatic protons of cycloundecanone. The importance of polarization trans-fer in other cases with non-equilibrium population of the nuclear spin levels and the possibility of its utilization in field cycling NMR studies are discussed.