With nearly 400 original illustrations, this NMR primer provides an introduction to solution NMR spectroscopy at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and working scientists with backgrounds in chemistry or biochemistry.
With nearly 400 original illustrations, this NMR primer provides an introduction to solution NMR spectroscopy at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and working scientists with backgrounds in chemistry or biochemistry. It presents the underlying physics and mathematics in a way that is both accessible and sufficiently complete to allow a real understanding of modern multi-dimensional experiments, thereby giving readers the tools they need to move to more advanced textbooks and articles. One special feature of this text is a thorough, but accessible, treatment of spin quantum mechanics, including scalar-coupled spins. A novel style of vector diagram is used to represent the quantum correlations between coupled spins and the manipulation of these correlations by pulses and time evolution. This will help to clarify what is arguably the most difficult aspect of NMR for students and practitioners to master.

Autorentext

David Goldenberg

Inhalt

1. An overview of modern solution NMR
   
   2. An introduction to spin and nuclear magnetism
   3. Early NMR experiments
   4. Chemical information from resonance frequencies
   5. The pulse NMR methods: The pulse
   6. The pulse NMR method: The signal and spectrum
   7. Relaxation
   8. A more mathematical look at relaxation
   9. Cross relaxation and the nuclear Overhauser effect
   10. Two-dimensional NMR experiments
   11. The mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics
   12. More quantum mechanics: Time and energy
   13. Quantum description of a scalar-coupled spin pair
   14. NMR spectroscopy of a weakly-coupled spin pair
   15. Two-dimensional spectra based on scalar coupling
   16. Heteronuclear NMR techniques
   17. Introduction to the density matrix
   18. The product-operator formalism
       Appendix A: List of symbols, numerical constants and abbreviations
       Appendix B: Trigonometric functions and complex numbers
       Appendix C: Fourier series and transforms
       Appendix D: Vectors and matrices
       Appendix E: Mathematics for uncoupled spin-1/2 particles
       Appendix F: Mathematics of the two-spin system
       Index