Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is an incredibly useful characterization technique. Assuming certain properties are met, the nucleus of an atom interacts with a magnetic field. The exact nature of that interaction is highly dependent on the environment around the atom. So you can get a ton of information about the structure of a molecule by […]
The popular image of science involves a lot of high tech tools. The reality is, much like any job, you end up using some utterly mundane things. Often while fixing the high tech ones. While the Maguyveresque electronics shop manager at my grad school probably didn’t really use bubblegum and a paperclip to repair NMR […]
Perhaps it was inevitable that I would end up writing a blog about the silly side of science. After all, I did write my thesis on NMR spectroscopy. And as I am about to show you, NMR people can get very, very silly when they’re coming up with acronyms for their pulse sequences. The following […]