User Guides
Data Acquisition:
Varian VNMRS 400 and 500
Using the VNMRS 400 in Manual Mode – Quick Guide
Using the VNMRS 400 in Autosampler Mode – Quick Guide
Submitting Samples for Overnight on the VNMRS 400 with Autosampler
Manually Tuning the 500 VNMRS Penta Probe
Bruker AV1 BRU400
Using the BRU400 with Autosampler – Quick Guide
Data Processing:
Instructions for obtaining data from NMR Server
Importing 1D Varian / VNMR Data into Topspin for Processing
Brief Data Processing Guide using VnmrJ
Brief Data Processing Guide using Topspin
How-To Videos
Data Acquisition:
Routine Proton NMR on 400 and 500: Training Video (8 min)
Using 400 Autosampler for Overnight Runs (7 min)
Data Processing:
Basic Proton Data Processing with MestreNova (15 min)
Importing 1D Varian / VNMR Data into Topspin for Processing
Software
- Mestrenova – Leading NMR data processing software. Free 45 day trial
- Bruker Topspin 4 – Free data processing software license for academic users. You must register for an account using .edu email address.
- DMFit – leading solid-state NMR fitting tool for SSNMR data analysis
- NMRBox – Virtual Machine with pre-installed NMR software and tools, including Topspin, MestreNova, NMRPipe, DOSY Toolbox, and many more.
Educational Magnetic Resonance Resources
- https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry/spectroscopy-jay/proton-nmr/v/introduction-to-proton-nmr. Excellent series of videos from Khan Academy, introducing Proton NMR concepts.
- http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/nmr-main.htm. Basics of NMR, online interactive textbook by Joseph P. Hornak, PhD
- http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NMRSignalProcessingLabTwoSpins12/. Interactive demonstration for NMR signal acquisition and data processing.
- http://www-keeler.ch.cam.ac.uk/lectures/Irvine/. Lecture notes from James Keeler, author of the excellent NMR textbook Understanding NMR Spectroscopy
- http://u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/NMR Blog from the University of Ottawa.
- http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/Spectrpy/nmr/nmr1.htm Animated brief introduction to NMR.
- http://www.grandinetti.org/resources/Teaching/Chem7160/Notes/NMRftp.pdf. NMR resource including discussions of NMR history, basic and advanced theory, discussion of major NMR topics such as relaxation, chemical shift, exchange, multi-dimensional NMR, hardware reviews, and much more.
Practical NMR Resources
- NMR solvent chart from Cambridge Isotopes
- http://www.bruker-nmr.de/guide/eNMR/chem/NMRnuclei.html NMR Periodic Table
- http://www.pascal-man.com/ Good resource for papers and links on solid state and quadrupolar NMR
- http://www.nmrdb.org/new_predictor/. Online resource for predicting standard 1D and 2D NMR spectra
- http://www.chenomx.com – this is Chenomx web-site where you can download free evaluation version of Chenomx NMR Suite, find User Guide, library of compounds and other useful information.
- http://www.chemspider.com/. Good resource for information on organic compounds. Often times there are either simulated or user-submitted NMR spectra available.
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http://sdbs.db.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng Spectral Database of Organic Compounds
- http://www.chem.wisc.edu/areas/reich/chem605/index.htm. very useful website for a course in structure determination using NMR. Included are chemical shift ranges, J-coupling values, relaxation and NOE discussions, and much more. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- http://matematicas.udea.edu.co/~carlopez/practical_guide_nmr_1994_2002.pdf. Guide for multiplet analysis of 1H NMR spectroscopy
- Shimming Ain’t Magic – Practical guide for how to shim an NMR spectrometer by hand.
- http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/nmr/. Excellent NMR resource that includes information on both common and rare NMR nuclei, liquid-state and solid-state NMR information, multi-dimensional NMR techniques, NMR relaxation, and much more.
- http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS2/projects/schirra/html/home.htm Introduction to structure determination of proteins using NMR.
- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/. Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank. View and submit NMR spectroscopic data for biological macromolecules and metabolites.
- http://www.protein-nmr.org.uk/. A practical guide to protein NMR – Assignment strategies, software links, general NMR information
- http://www.nmr2.buffalo.edu/resources/edu/matr/nmr2_2004.pdf – brief introduction to NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins
- http://www.theresonance.com/ General NMR news, recent research highlights, video webinars. Powered by Bruker.
- http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/facilities/nmr/NMR_Artifacts.html List of common NMR artifacts and problems, and troubleshooting suggestions
