Physical methods and techniques NMR spectroscopy

Abstract

NMR spectroscopy continues to evolve, with publications in 2009 providing an eclectic collection of applications, advances and incremental improvements. This article covers rapid acquisition methods, DNP, SQUID, new liquid-state methods, “easy” and “difficult” solid-state methods, and computational aspects of NMR spectroscopy. A significant landmark was achieved in 2009, with the commercial release of the 1000 MHz (1 GHz, 23.4 T) NMR magnet. Also, despite the headline grabbing 1 GHz magnet, there remains significant interest in Earth-field (54 μT) NMR. I am indebted to the great and the good whose work has been reported here, all credit is theirs; errors, omissions and blame are all mine.