TY - JOUR AU - Schleker, Peter Philipp Maria AU - Lehmkuhl, S. AU - Emondts, Meike AU - Schubert, Lukas AU - Spannring, Peter AU - Blümich, Bernhard TI - Hyperpolarizing Water with para-Hydrogen JO - ChemPhysChem VL - 18 IS - 18 SN - 1439-4235 CY - Weinheim PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. M1 - FZJ-2017-05225 SP - 2426-2429 PY - 2017 AB - Studies of water-based systems are of fundamental interest for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as water is the most abundant and important medium for global living. Hence, increasing the polarization of water and dissolved compounds is particularly attractive for biomedical applications such as investigations of intermolecular interactions and metabolite structures as well as for imaging purposes. In this work, we show a new approach based on para enriched hydrogen (p-H2) that enables the hyperpolarization of bulk water if a suitable catalytic system is employed. The results indicate that the polarization is transferred by a new exchange mechanism. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:28682000 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000411193200002 DO - DOI:10.1002/cphc.201700750 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/836101 ER -