For my first blog I have decided to talk a little bit about boron because it’s a fascinating element that imparts remarkable properties to its compounds. And believe me, there are hundred of different compounds with very different properties containing boron centers. We find boron in compounds like boronic acids (A), boronic esters (B), and MIDA boronates (C), all of which are very popular in Suzuki coupling reactions to make new C–C bonds.  Another popular family of compounds containing boron are the BODIPY dyes (D). These derivatives, composed of a dipyrromethene ligand supporting a BF2 unit, are used as stable functional dyes in several fields, but their application as biomolecular labels is the most investigated by far.

Distortionless Enhancement by Polarization Transfer (DEPT) is a double resonance pulse program that transfers polarization from an excited nucleus to another – most commonly 1H → 13C. This results in a sensitivity enhancement relative to the standard decoupled 1D carbon spectra (13C), which benefits only from the small Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) enhancements.

There is no element on earth that gets as much air-time as carbon. I mean, let’s be honest, when’s the last time you caught up on the news when you didn’t see carbon in the limelight – 

The folks at Mestrelab have been hosting a great webinar series featuring talks from various NMR vendors on applications, with a heavy emphasis on the growing field of benchtop

A 1D proton NMR spectrum can contain a great deal of information, including:

(a) chemical shifts (what types of protons you have);

When it comes to some applications – like academic teaching for example – the addition of a hands-on access to an NMR spectrometer directly in the lab is very attractive, but the added

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People who are familiar with acquiring spectra on high-field NMR spectrometers are used to spinning their sample before locking, shimming and data acquisition. 

NMR spectrometers are perhaps most commonly used to generate qualitative data – you know – determine relative integrations, elucidate a structure, or even just assess a

2,4-pentanedione (aka acetylacetone, acetylacetonato or acacH) is not only a ubiquitous ligand (AND ligand precursor!) for beautifully coloured organometallic complexes[1-3].. Read more.