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Rotational-Echo DOuble Resonance, REDOR, is an experimentally robust and a well-established dipolar-recoupling technique to measure dipolar couplings between isolated pairs of spin-1/2 heteronuclei in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. REDOR can also be used to estimate motional order parameters when the bond distance is known, for example, in the case of directly bound nuclei. However, the relatively fast dipolar dephasing for strongly coupled spin-1/2 pairs, such as C-H, makes the stroboscopic measurement required in this experiment challenging, even at fast Magic-Angle-Spinning (MAS) frequencies. In such cases, modified REDOR-based methods like Shifted-REDOR (S-REDOR) are used to scale the dipolar coupling compared to REDOR. This is achieved by changing the position of one of the two recoupling π-pulses in a rotor period. This feature, however, comes at the cost of mixing multiple Fourier components of the dipolar coupling and can, additionally, require high radio-frequency amplitudes to realise small scaling factors. We introduce here a general pulse scheme which involves shifting both the π pulses in the REDOR scheme to achieve arbitrary scaling factors whilst retaining the robustness and simplicity of REDOR recoupling and avoiding the disadvantages of S-REDOR. The classical REDOR is a specific case of this scheme with a scaling factor of one. We demonstrate the results on isolated C-N and H-C spin pairs at 20 and 62.5 kHz MAS, respectively.

Measuring strong one-bond dipolar couplings using REDOR in magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR