IU NMR Facility

We will be doing 2D NMR training next week at the following times: 

October 12, Wednesday, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm;

October 12, Wednesday, 3 pm – 5 pm;

October 13, Thursday, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm;

October 13, Thursday, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm;

October 14, Friday, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm;

October 14, Friday, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm.

These will be single two-hour sessions. I will discuss the basic concepts of 2D NMR followed by the setup, acquisition, processing, and plotting of the common 2D NMR 1H-1H and 1H-13C experiments including COSY, TOCSY, NOESY/ROESY, HMQC/HSQC, and HMBC/CIGAR. The number of attendees in each session will be limited to four. Please sign up using the online sign-up sheet if you plan to attend. 

The maximum occupancy of each training session is four students. The sign-up form will be closed on Tuesday (10/11) at 5:00 pm. So, if you are interested, please, sign-up for the training ASAP.

Unlike VnmrJ software on Varian spectrometers which contains only deuterated solvents in the solvent list, IconNMR software on the B500 contains both deuterated and non-deuterated solvents in the solvent list. All non-deuteared solvents are marked with “non-deuterated” following the solvent names, therefore are easy to distinguish. Here is a example:

“CD3CN acetonitrile-d3”   —   this is deuterated
“CH3CN acetonitrile, non-deutareated”   —   this is non-deuterated

For a sample in deuterated solvent (almost all of the samples for NMR measurement use deuterated solvents) , you must select a matched deuterated solvent (CD3CN in this example). Selecting a non-deuterated solvent (CH3CN in this example) would result in failures of locking and/or shimming and consequently failure of the experiment. Do not make this mistake.

Update 2022/9/21: All non-deuterated solvents were removed from the solvent list to avoid possible confusion.