Micromolar fluoride contamination arising from glass NMR tubes and a simple solution for biomolecular applications.
J Biomol NMR
; 2024 Jul 27.
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ABSTRACT
Fluorine (19F) NMR is emerging as an invaluable analytical technique in chemistry, biochemistry, structural biology, material science, drug discovery, and medicine, especially due to the inherent rarity of naturally occurring fluorine in biological, organic, and inorganic compounds. Here, we revisit the under-reported problem of fluoride leaching from new and unused glass NMR tubes. We characterised the leaching of free fluoride from various types of new and unused glass NMR tubes over the course of several hours and quantify this contaminant to be at micromolar concentrations for typical NMR sample volumes across multiple glass types and brands. We find that this artefact is undetectable for samples prepared in quartz NMR tubes within the timeframes of our experiments. We also observed that pre-soaking new glass NMR tubes combined with rinsing removes this contamination below micromolar levels. Given the increasing popularity of 19F NMR across a wide range of fields, increasing popularity of single-use screening tubes, the long collection times required for relaxation studies and samples of low concentrations, and the importance of avoiding contamination in all NMR experiments, we anticipate that our simple solution will be useful to biomolecular NMR spectroscopists.
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J Biomol NMR
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BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
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MEDICINA NUCLEAR
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2024
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Reino Unido