Understanding NMR spectroscopy

James Keeler0470017872, 9780470017876, 0470017864, 9780470017869

Understanding NMR Spectroscopy James Keeler Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK This text discusses the high-resolution NMR of liquid samples and concentrates exclusively on spin-half nuclei (mainly 1H and 13C). It is aimed at people who are familiar with the use of routine NMR for structure determination and who wish to deepen their understanding of just exactly how NMR experiments work. It demonstrates that in NMR it is possible, quite literally on the back of an envelope, to make exact predictions of the outcome of quite sophisticated experiments. The experiments chosen are likely to be encountered in the routine NMR of small to medium-sized molecules, but are also applicable to the study of large biomolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. The book starts off at a gentle pace, working through some more-or-less familiar ideas, and then elaborating these as the book progresses. Each chapter ends with exercises which are designed to assist in the understanding of the ideas presented and to grasp the underlying ideas.

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Table of contents :
1 What this course is about……Page 4
2 NMR and energy levels……Page 7
3 The vector model……Page 26
4 Fourier transformation and data processing……Page 48
5 How the spectrometer works……Page 66
6 Product Operators……Page 80
7 Two-dimensional NMR……Page 96
8 Relaxation……Page 126
9 Coherence Selection:Phase Cycling and Gradient Pulses……Page 151
Exercises for Chapters 6, 7, 8 & 9……Page 200