The researchers also demonstrated microscale MRI images in a micro-reactor using parahydrogen,
a state of the hydrogen molecule in which the nuclei are aligned in opposite directions.
Not exact matches
The scientists prepared the
molecules so that the temperature — judged by the probability
of an atom's nucleus being found in a higher energy
state — was greater for the
hydrogen nucleus than for the carbon.
Researchers can now study how water behaves when stripped
of the
hydrogen bonds that normally govern its properties, as well as the
molecule's two different «spin»
states, which can not be separated when water
molecules are en masse.
Seeing
hydrogen is critical to studying protonation
states of an enzyme and ligand — a
molecule that binds to a biological macromolecule — and to analyzing the architecture
of hydrogen - bonding networks.
The presence
of the sugar
molecules jostling the atom have the effect
of «observing» it, they argue, forcing the
hydrogen to snap into one position, just as measuring the
state of any quantum particle will fix it to one set location.
Squeezing
hydrogen at extreme pressures changes it into a mix
of honeycombed atoms layered with free - floating
molecules — an entirely new
state of the element and the first new phase found in decades.
The hydration sphere and the
hydrogen bonds will have different dimensions in the frozen
state and hence would not the configurations
of the dissolved or dispersed
molecules be different in the frozen
state than at normal room temperatures?
In principle, odorant isotopomers provide a possible test
of shape vs. vibration mechanisms: replacing, for example,
hydrogen with deuterium in an odorant leaves the ground -
state conformation
of the
molecule unaltered while doubling atomic mass and so altering the frequency
of all its vibrational modes to a greater or lesser extent [11].