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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR)

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    General NMR references:

    http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/

    www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/Spectrpy/nmr/nmr1.htm

    http://www.asdlib.org/onlineArticles/ecourseware/Larive/qnmr1.htm

    http://www.ias.ac.in/initiat/sci_ed/resources/chemistry/James.T.pdf

    http://www-keeler.ch.cam.ac.uk/lectures/

    www.biophysics.org/Portals/1/PDFs/Education/donne.pdf

    1. Understand and be able to explain the quantum and classical descriptions of NMR.

      www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/Spectrpy/nmr/nmr1.htm

      http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/hwb/chemistry/tutorials/molspec/nmr1.htm

      http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/chap-3/chap-3.htm

    2. Be able to describe relaxation processes in NMR.

      www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/Spectrpy/nmr/nmr1.htm

      http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/chap-3/chap-3.htm

    3. Understand and be able to explain the differences between continuous wave (CW) NMR and FT-NMR (aka ”pulsed”) instruments.

      www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/Spectrpy/nmr/nmr1.htm

      http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/chap-3/chap-3.htm

    4. Review interpretation of NMR spectra = qualitative analysis (chemical shift and coupling).

      http://www.nd.edu/~smithgrp/structure/workbook.html

      http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/

      http://riodb01.ibase.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng

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