Overcoming Prohibitively Large Radiofrequency Demands for the Measurement of Internuclear Distances with Solid-State NMR under Fast Magic-Angle Spinning

Solid-state NMR is a powerful tool to measure distances and motional order parameters which are vital tools in characterizing the structure and dynamics of molecules. Magic-angle spinning (MAS), widely employed in solid-state NMR, averages out dipole–dipole couplings that carry such information. Hence, rotor-synchronized radiofrequency (RF) pulses, that interfere with MAS averaging, are commonly employed to measure such couplings. However, most of the methods that achieve this, rotational echo double resonance (REDOR) being a classic example, require RF amplitudes that are greater than or equal to the MAS frequency. While feasible at MAS frequencies