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We investigate theoretically the NMR response of twisted configurations of \({\rm I}\beta\) cellulose in the tg conformation. These finite helical angle structures were constructed by a mathematical deformation of zero-angle configurations obtained via the periodic density functional energy minimizations with dispersion corrections (DFT-D2). Subsequent calculations of the \({^{13}\hbox {C}}\) nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts \(({\delta}^{13} \hbox {C})\) were compared with experimental findings by Erata et al. (Cellul Commun 4:128–131, 1997) and Kono et al. (Macromolecules 36:5131–5138, 2003). We determine the sensitivity of the NMR chemical shifts to helical deformation of the microfibril and find that a substantial range of helical angle, ±2 degrees/nm, is consistent with current experimental observations, with a most probable angle of ∼0.2 degree/nm. Through exhaustive combinatorial provisional assignments, we also demonstrate that there are different choices of the chemical shift \(({\delta}^{13} \hbox {C})\) assignments which are consistent with the experiments, including ones with lower deviations than existing identifications.
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This work was supported as part of The Center for LignoCellulose Structure and Formation, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award # DE-SC0001090. Computational support was provided by the Research Computation and Cyberinfrastructure group at The Pennsylvania State University.
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Shklyaev, O.E., Kubicki, J.D., Watts, H.D. et al. Constraints on \({\rm I}\beta\) cellulose twist from DFT calculations of \(^{13}\hbox {C}\) NMR chemical shifts. Cellulose 21, 3979–3991 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-014-0448-3
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