EASY-GOING DUMBO on-spectrometer optimisation of phase modulated homonuclear decoupling sequences in solid-state NMR

Abstract A one-step many-parameter optimisation scheme for phase modulated proton homonuclear decoupling sequences in solid-state NMR is presented. Phase modulations, parameterised by DUMBO Fourier coefficients, were optimised using a Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategies algorithm. Our method, denoted EASY-GOING DUMBO, starts with featureless spectra and optimises proton–proton decoupling, during either proton or carbon signal detection. Optimisations at moderate sample magic angle spinning (MAS) frequencies and medium radio-frequency (rf) field strengths resulted in solutions closely resembling (e)DUMBO. Application of EASY-GOING DUMBO for optimisation at very high 680 kHz rf field strength, 12.5 kHz MAS on a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer resulted in a new solution, with competitively resolved proton spectra.

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