Instruction Manuals

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Varian NMR Instruments:

• Routine Operation of the Varian NMRs using VNMRj 3.2A 

• 1D NMR Experiments.

• 2D NMR Experiments. 

• Variable Temperature Operation

• New VNMRj Software : Processing/Plotting (from Agilent Manual)

• DOSY: Diffusion Ordered NMR Spectroscopy (Wide variety of methods available)

  • Ask for consultation and instruction in these methods

• Decoupling Protons when observing Heteronuclei (Varian instruments Only)

  • Gating Decoupler On or Off (Varian instruments only)

​Bruker Avance-III 400 NMR in JSCBB C1B82:

• Using ICON-NMR in Automation for the JSCB 400

Bruker Avance-III 300 NMR:

• Using ICON-NMR in Automation on the 300

General Information about NMR & Utilities:

• Locking and Shimming (general concepts, manual locking & shimming)

• Relaxation and Quantitation (Integration)... how long do you have to wait between scans?

• Dynamic NMR Experiments - Practice and Calculations : Chemical/Conformational Exchange

  • 2D & 1D-selective EXCHSY (exchange spectroscopy)

• Sample Temperature Calibration for VT NMR

• NMR Probe Tuning: What Every NMR User Should Know!

• Absolute Chemical Shift Referencing for "X"-Nucleus NMR Spectra (using the xref macro in VNMR) 

• Fluorine-19 Chemical Shift Reference Standards (table) 

• 2D NMR Processing in MestReNova - Quick-Start Guide