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PANIC NMR Validation Group – Website, Meetings and Organization

June 18, 2015 by process nmr Benchtop NMR, NMR, NMR Test Methods, NMR Validation, PAT, Process NMR, qNMR, TD-NMR

Validation of NMR: No Need to PANIC – Workshop held February 13, 2015, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A

In conjunction with the 3rd PANIC conference in La Jolla, California, a 1-day NMR validation workshop was held that attracted approximately 80 interested participants. The agenda of the meeting is provided at this link (http://www.nmrvalidation.org/index.php/events/event-review) and registered participants can now download the presentations presented at the meeting. At the meeting it was decided to proceed with the idea of founding an organization dedicated to the development of validate NMR methods for use throughout all industry sectors.

Organizational Scope:

NMR spectroscopy provides a means to evaluate material with high compound and high material specificity. Information as to the chemical structure, stereochemistry, quantity, material composition, and material identity is encoded in the NMR spectrum. The high reproducibility of NMR spectroscopy from instrument to instrument and lab to lab makes NMR an excellent tool for material validation. Approaches to utilizing NMR as a material validation tool include using (1) targeted approaches, the identification and quantification of specific components, and (2) non-targeted approaches, the use of chemometric methods to evaluate the spectrum as a whole. Efforts to increase the number and the speed of validated NMR methods are underway. This promises to move NMR technology from R&D to a mainstream analytical tool for production leading to high quality product assessment.

Quantitative NMR spectroscopy (qNMR) provides the most universally applicable form of direct purity determination without the need for reference materials of analytes or the calculation of response factors, with the only requirement being the exhibition of suitable NMR spectral properties. Due to recent advances in the technical development of NMR instruments, such as acquisition electronics and probe design, detection limits of components in liquid mixtures have been improved into the lower ppm range (approx. 5–10 ppm amount of substance).

The development of validated procedures and qualified standards will give users the tools to routinely exploit qNMR and enable them to speed up analytical method development, with the added advantage of reducing the time and financial burden of multiple analytical testing.

Over the last few years a number of efforts have been made to include NMR in routine testing and analysis – especially in regulated fields such as those operating under GMP or GLP guidelines. Unfortunately it has been observed that approval authorities, standard method organizations, and auditors prefer to take analytical routes derived from classical chromatographic methods. Since NMR represents a direct comparison analysis method such decisions clearly fail to take advantage of the benefits that NMR can provide.

The PANIC validation group proposes to become a driving force in getting NMR methods validated, publicized, and supported by documentation and qualified standards. The organization will also provide a mechanism for repeatability/reproducibility assessment of NMR methods as well as the round-robin accreditation of NMR labs. We aim to proactively promote the technology and improve its acceptance by the analytical community across all industry sectors.

What we want:

Identify a network of NMR people concerned with validation that can ultimately assist each other through the validation process.
Harmonize the terminology and a standard approach for NMR validations.
Position the guidelines produced by consensus of the NMR community so that accreditation agencies can use this process.

It is expected that there will be an annual 1-day meeting in conjunction with future PANIC conferences. A website has been been created as an organizational repository. The website can be found here: http://www.nmrvalidation.org/index.php and details of future events and, eventually, contact information will be provided.

PNA to Present 4 Topics at the 2015 ACS North East Regional Meeting

May 17, 2015 by process nmr Beer, Benchtop NMR, Chemometrics, Cider, Energy, Herbal Supplement, NMR, PAT, Petroleum, qNMR

John Edwards of Process NMR Associates will be presenting 4 papers at the 2015 ACS Northeast Regional Meeting that will be held in Ithaca, NY, June 10-13, 2015.

ABSTRACT ID: 2283171
ABSTRACT TITLE: 1H qNMR of Alcoholic Cider – Analysis of Small Molecule and Residual Sugar Chemistry (final paper number: 43)
SESSION: Food Chemistry
SESSION TIME: 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Poster
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Wednesday, June, 10, 2015, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
ROOM & LOCATION: Emerson Suites – Campus Center

ABSTRACT ID: 2283063
ABSTRACT TITLE: Nutritional Supplement and Diesel Fuel Application Development for Benchtop NMR Systems Operating at 42, 60, and 80 MHz – Equivalency with Supercon NMR (final paper number: 336)
SESSION: Analytical Chemistry
SESSION TIME: 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Friday, June, 12, 2015 from 9:45 AM – 10:05 AM
ROOM & LOCATION: 222 – Williams Hall

ABSTRACT ID: 2283105
ABSTRACT TITLE: Survey of Low Field NMR Spectrometer Platforms for Successful Screening of Sexual Enhancement and Weight Loss Supplements for Adulteration with Drugs and Drug Analogs (final paper number: 386)
SESSION: Medicinal Chemistry
SESSION TIME: 1:00 PM – 3:20 PM
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Friday, June, 12, 2015 from 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM
ROOM & LOCATION: 302 – Williams Hall

ABSTRACT ID: 2283153
ABSTRACT TITLE: From Mash to Bottle: Chemistry of the Beer Brewing Process and NMR-based Quality Control (final paper number: 284)
SESSION: Food Chemistry
SESSION TIME: 1:30 PM – 3:10 PM
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Oral
DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Thursday, June, 11, 2015 from 1:35 PM – 1:55 PM
ROOM & LOCATION: 202 – Williams Hall

Polyalphaolefin Hydrogenation – Residual Olefin Analysis – 1H NMR versus Bromine Number

March 8, 2015 by process nmr Benchtop NMR, NMR, PAT, Petroleum, Process NMR, qNMR, Reaction Monitoring

1H NMR is an excellent tool for monitoring the residual olefin content of polymers after hydrogenation reactions. The fact that the olefin fall in a unique region of the spectrum means that it is a straightforward measurement to quantify the %H present as olefin or to correlate that olefin content with other analyses such as bromine number. Here is an example of a polyalphaolefin residual olefin analysis. The olefin proton content (%H) was plotted against bromine number values obtained on each of the samples. A linear correlation was obtain but two different correlations were observed that were dependent on the viscosity index of the polyalphaolefin being analyzed. Figure 1 shows the 1H NMR spectra obtained on neat samples on a Picospin-80 spectrometer operating at 82.3 MHz. The methyl and methlene protons of the polymer backbone are plainly seen and the olefin and alpha-olefin protons are observed.

1H NMR - Polyalphaolefins - Residual Olefin Analysis — Figure 1: 1H NMR – Polyalphaolefins – Residual Olefin Analysis

Figure 2 shows the linear correlation between %H olefin and bromine number with the two correlations caused by different VI grade being indicated. The analysis shows that for the two viscosity grades the grade can be identified from the linear correlation that the data falls onto and the %H olefins content can directly yield the bromine number. This NMR method provides an alternative to the following ASTM standards: D1159 Test Method for Bromine Numbers of Petroleum Distillates and Commercial Aliphatic Olefins by Electrometric Titration D1491 Test Method for Test for Bromine Index of Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Potentiometric Titration D1492 Standard Test Method for Bromine Index of Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Coulometric Titration D2710 Test Method for Bromine Index of Petroleum Hydrocarbons by Electrometric Titration D5776 Test Method for Bromine Index of Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Electrometric Titration

Figure 2: Correlation of Olefin Content obtained by 1H NMR with Bromine Number in Polyalphaolefins

Residual Catalytic Cracker – Heavy Petroleum Feedstream Properties from 1H NMR at 43 MHz

February 27, 2015 by process nmr Benchtop NMR, Chemistry, Chemometrics, Energy, NMR, PAT, Petroleum, Process NMR, qNMR, Reaction Monitoring, TD-NMR Tagged: NMR, Petroleum, RCC

Back in October we presented a talk at Gulf Coast Conference that concerned the prediction of the chemical and physical properties of heavy petroleum feeds being converted to higher value product in a residual catalytic cracker (RCC). Over the years we have analyzed these materials by 300 and 60 MHz NMR and obtained good PLS-regression models that can adequately predict properties for real-time process control and optimization in a petroleum refinery. With the advent of a large number of new benchtop NMR systems we have been convincing ourselves that these types of analyses can be performed by systems such as the Magritek Spinsolve 43 MHz. We ran a series of samples that had been sitting around our lab for 15 years by dissolving them at about 50 volume% in a 50/50 CDCl3/CS2 solvent system. For each sample we had laboratory test data for a number of chemical and physical properties of interest to process engineers. We regressed the lab data variability against the variability in the Magritek 43MHz 1H NMR spectra and obtained cross-validated PLS models. The presentation material is given here at this link – Gulf Conference Presentation – 43 MHz RCC Feedstream Regression Models

Nutritional Supplement and Diesel Fuel Application Development for Benchtop NMR Systems Operating at 42, 60, and 80 MHz – Equivalency with Supercon NMR

February 26, 2015 by process nmr Benchtop NMR, Chemometrics, Energy, Herbal Supplement, NMR, PAT, qNMR

Benchtop high-resolution NMR systems are available at a number of field strengths and probe configurations. However beyond the obvious academic instruction market for these instruments very few applications have been demonstrated across all available platforms and thus proving the general applicability of benchtop NMR technology to industrial quality control. We will present two chemometric-based applications that have been developed at 4 different field strengths utilizing Varian Mercury 300 MHz, Magritek Spinsolve 42 MHz, Aspect AI 60 MHz, and Thermo Picospin 80 MHz NMR systems. Partial-least-squares (PLS) regression correlations were obtained on all 4 platforms relating to:
1) Omega-3 fatty acid composition of samples taken from various points in a nutritional supplement manufacturing process. Excellent correlations were obtained on all 4 NMR instruments proving that NMR technology is applicable to in-lab, at-line. or on-line analysis of fish oil derived omega-3 fatty acid supplements. The 40 second NMR analysis effectively replaces a 60+ minute GC analysis.
2) Physical and chemical property determination of diesel fuels where excellent correlations were obtained between 1H NMR variability and parameters such as density, aromatic content by GC, hydrogen content by 1H TD-NMR (ASTM D7171 method), and sulfur content. Many more physical and chemical properties can be correlated to the 1H NMR spectrum allowing a single 40 second NMR experiment to predict 10-15 parameters that each require dedicated analyzers.
Finally, we will present the concept and initial results from an independent server-based NMR application software that can be utilized in conjunction with the NMR software of the current benchtop NMR systems, or alternatively as a stand-alone application platform. This software would effectively make chemometric and direct measurement NMR application ubiquitous across all NMR platforms.

A link to this presentation in PDF form is given here: PLS-Regression – 300_80_60_43 MHz NMR of Fish Oil Supplements and Diesel Fuel