Department of Chemistry   University of Oxford

MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Dr. C.R. Timmel

Michaelmas Term – Third Year

The physics of magnetic resonance: the magnetic moment, the spin quantum number, the gyromagnetic ratio, space quantization, the resonance condition, the vector model, populations and bulk magnetization, selection rules, the origin of shielding, diamagnetic and paramagnetic shielding, neighbouring group anisotropy, ring current effects, electronic effects, intermolecular interactions.

Spin-Spin Coupling, energy level considerations, labeling of spin systems, AMX systems, AX2 systems, AX3 systems, AXn systems, coupling to spins with I>1/2, limits of the simple splitting rules, magnetic equivalence, the origin of the roof effect, strong coupling effects, discussion of Fermi contact interaction and dipole-dipole interactions.
Experimental methods: continuous wave and pulsed NMR, introduction of Free Induction Decay (FID) and Fourier Transformation for simple FIDs.
The rotating frame, linear and circularly polarized fields, NMR as a coherence phenomenon.

Spin relaxation, spin lattice and spin-spin relaxation, the rotational correlation time and the spectral density function, spin relaxation and the vector model, measurement of relaxation times, the inversion recovery experiment, the spin echo experiment. Chemical Exchange, symmetrical exchange, slow and fast exchange limits, intermediate exchange, unsymmetrical two-site exchange. A short introduction to two-dimensional NMR: Correlated Spectroscopy (COSY), Exchange Spectroscopy (EXSY) and Nuclear Overhauser Spectroscopy (NOESY).

Reading:

Mostly: P.J. Hore, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
P.J. Hore, J.A. Jones, S. Wimperis, NMR: The Toolkit
H. Friebolin: One- and Two-dimensional NMR
H. Günther, NMR Spectroscopy
A. Carrington and A.D. McLachlan , Introduction to Magnetic Resonance
R. Freeman, A Handbook of nuclear magnetic resonance
R.R. Ernst, G. Bodenhausen and A. Wokaun, Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in One and Two Dimensions

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