Front Cover -- Annual Reports on NMR spectroscopy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: Accurate NMR Determinations of Proton-Proton Distances -- 1. Introduction-A Brief History and Basics of the NOE Effect -- 2. Explaining the NOE as a Relaxation Phenomenon -- 3. Summary of the Methods Detecting Steric Proximities -- 3.1. Steady-State Applications -- 3.2. Transient NOE Applications -- 3.3. Solvent Suppression -- 3.4. The Impact of Molecular Weight and Magnetic Field Strength-ROESY -- 3.5. Selective 1D Applications -- 3.6. Heteronuclear NOESY -- 4. Integration of the Spectra, Determination of the Exact Interatomic Distances -- 5. Structure Determination of Biopolymers -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter Two: Recent Solid-State NMR Studies of Hydrated Lipid Membranes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Methods in Solid-State NMR for the Study of Hydrated Lipid Membrane Systems -- 2.1. 2H NMR of Lipids in Membranes -- 2.2. REDOR Experiments -- 3. Lipid Rafts Formed by Sphingomyelin and Cholesterol -- 3.1. 2H NMR for Determining the Ordering of Acyl Chains in Lipid-Raft Model Membranes -- 3.2. Local Orientation and Dynamics -- 3.3. Lipid Composition of Phase-Separated Bilayers -- 4. Solid-State NMR Study of Natural Product-Lipid Interactions in Hydrated Membranes -- 4.1. Stable-Isotope Labelling of Target Compounds -- 4.2. AmB and Other Natural Product-Sterol Interactions -- 4.3. Structure of the AmB-Erg Complex in a Hydrated Membrane -- 4.4. AmB-Phospholipid Interactions -- 4.5. AmB-AmB Interactions -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter Three: Lateral Diffusion and NMR -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lateral Diffusion -- 3. Lateral Diffusion Measurement Techniques -- 4. NMR Spectroscopy in Membranes -- 5. Gradient-Based NMR Lateral Diffusion Measurements -- 5.1. Gradient MAS.

5.2. Macroscopically Oriented Membranes -- 5.3. Magnetically Aligned Bicelles -- 5.4. Cubic Lipid Phases -- 5.5. Beyond 1H PFG NMR -- 6. Exchange-Based NMR Lateral Diffusion Measurements -- 6.1. Static 2D EXSY NMR -- 6.2. CODEX -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter Four: Recent Developments in NMR Studies of Aluminophosphates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. NMR Properties of Isotopes in Aluminophosphate -- 2.1. 31P NMR -- 2.2. 27AL NMR -- 2.3. NMR Properties of Other Isotopes -- 3. NMR Methods for the Study of Aluminophosphates -- 3.1. Basic NMR Methods -- 3.2. NMR Methods for Quadrupolar Nuclei -- 3.3. Wideline NMR Methods -- 3.4. Probing Connectivities and Proximities Between Identical Nuclei -- 3.4.1. Probing Connectivities Between Identical Nuclei -- 3.4.2. Probing Proximities Between Identical Nuclei -- 3.5. Probing Connectivities and Proximities Between Distinct Isotopes -- 3.5.1. Probing Connectivities Between Distinct Isotopes -- 3.5.2. Probing Proximities Between Distinct Isotopes -- 4. NMR of Crystalline Aluminophosphates -- 4.1. Structure Determination: NMR, Graph Theory, DFT Calculations -- 4.2. Localization of Water Molecules and SDAs -- 4.2.1. Water Molecules -- 4.2.2. SDAs -- 4.3. Substitutions -- 4.3.1. Hydroxyl/Fluorine -- 4.3.2. Cations -- 4.3.3. Dynamics -- 4.3.4. Phase Transformation -- 5. NMR of Aluminophosphate Glasses -- 5.1. Local-Range Order -- 5.1.1. 1D 27AL NMR Spectra -- 5.1.2. 1D 31P NMR Spectra -- 5.2. Medium-Range Order -- 5.2.1. 31P-27Al HETCOR 2D Spectra: A Qualitative Vision of the P-O-Al Linkages -- 5.2.2. Quantitative Data Derived From the Measurement of 31P-27Al Dipolar Interactions -- 5.3. Crystallization and Dynamics in Aluminophosphate-Based Glasses From Ex Situ and High Temperature In Situ MAS-NMR -- 5.3.1. Crystallization of Aluminophosphate Glasses -- 5.3.2. Dynamics Above the Glass Transition.

6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter Five: 17O NMR as a Tool in Discrete Metal Oxide Cluster Chemistry -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 17O as a Nucleus in Metal Oxide Cluster Chemistry -- 2.1. The Classical Vector Model of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance -- 2.2. Exchange Kinetics -- 2.3. Solvent Exchange in Paramagnetic Systems -- 3. Solution Dynamics of Nanometer-Sized Aqueous Cluster Ions -- 4. High-Pressure NMR -- 4.1. Mechanisms of Ligand Exchange via 17O NMR -- 4.2. Devices to Reach GPa Pressures for Solution NMR -- 5. Computation of 17O Chemical Shifts of Metal Oxide Clusters by Density Functional Theory -- 6. Conclusions -- Author Contributions -- References -- Back Cover.