If there is one thing that I could say describes the holiday season best, it would have to be the delicious treats I get to indulge in, such as: gingerbread cookies, pies, peppermint bark, and so many more. Wafting in the aroma of baked goods always gives me butterflies in my stomach and lights up my nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) mind.

In the 19F NMR spectrum of DCBTF, we can observe the singlet resonance of the trifluoromethyl fragment at δ = −63.07 ppm. While it might not jump into your eye at first glance, please note that the carbon satellites are not centered at the "main signal", which is what we are used to from 1H NMR spectra. Read more

In my opinion, one of the most helpful papers[1] in the field of NMR spectroscopy in Organic Chemistry consists of ‘just’ two tables. In these, the chemical shifts (1H and 13C) of as many as forty-two common impurities in twelve different deuterated solvents are listed. This is gold! Why?

What is process analytical technology (PAT) and why is it so important?PAT is an extremely powerful and useful tool for analyzing, optimizing and controlling chemical processes. Chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries could especially benefit from this technique. In earlier days, chemical processes were primarily monitored by physical techniques, such as temperature, pH, pressure etc..

In this blog we will explore how a variety of acquisition parameters can affect the FID and their direct consequence in the spectrum.

It is common to mention the frequency of an NMR instrument instead of its field. When someone says: I have in my laboratory a 100 MHz instrument, it means that a spectrometer where the protons precess with a frequency of 100 MHz (Lamour frequency) is available in the lab…

NMR users can deal with spectrum evaluation in the daily work, but how is the spectrum information stored in the time domain (FID)? Read more.

‘The spectra were analyzed according to first order’. Does this sound familiar to you? Most of the supporting information documents out there contain this sentence. You find yourself asking ‘why does nobody care about second order effects?’, then check out this high-order blog entry on the topic.

If you’ve ever prepared an NMR sample, you’re familiar with the fact that we almost always use deuterated solvents to dissolve our samples of interest…

While low-field NMR has extremely favourable accessibility and affordable characteristics, the most common question that we get asked about our family of benchtop NMR spectrometers is with respect to any trade-offs that come from moving to lower-field.