Practical Aspects of Modern Routine Solid-State Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: One-Dimensional Experiments

Abstract

New solid-state NMR (SSNMR) methods and applications continue to blossom such that a diverse array of physical, chemical, and biological problems are now being addressed using a variety of SSNMR experiments. While SSNMR is far from routine for chemists in the manner that a technique such as solution NMR is, there are nevertheless numerous applications of SSNMR which would be beneficial to many “non-specialists”, e.g., synthetic chemists seeking to characterize their materials. This article gathers together practical details for those one-dimensional experiments which, in a broad sense, are considered “routine ” in a modern SSNMR laboratory. Emphasis is placed on providing information and over 300 key references in a manner which will be useful for the novice and the non-specialist. For practicing SSNMR spectroscopists, it is hoped that this article will serve as a valuable reference in the laboratory. In addition to providing a brief review of pulsed Fourier transform NMR, the article discusses experimental details relating to the study of solid samples containing spin- 1 2 nuclei, non-integer quadrupolar nuclei, and deuterium.