Biological Sciences
BIO 417: Fundamentals of NMR Spectroscopy (OE, Credit, 3)
Course Content:
- Basic Concepts, Theory and Applications of NMR Spectroscopy
- Characteristics of Nuclear Spins in NMR
- Concept of Nuclear Spin States
- Generation of a FID in NMR
- Fourier Transform NMR Spectroscopy
- The Concept of Fourier Transform
- The Origin of Chemical Shifts in NMR Spectroscopy
- Inductive effects
- Quantum Mechanical Model for Spin 1/2 Nuclei
- After application of an RF pulse
- Relaxation Processes
- Shell Model Energy Diagram for various spins
- Quadrature detection
- Analog to Digital Conversion
- AB, AMX, and AX spin systems
- Multi-pulse Experiments
- Inversion Recovery Experiment
- Spin-echo pulse sequence
- Spin polarization
- Selective Polarization Transfer
- Selective Population Inversion
- Heteronuclear Selective Population Inversion
- Pre-saturation
- Jump and Return Sequence
- Spectra on a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer
- NMR spectra of amino Acids
- Introduction to two-dimensional NMR
- 2D COSY
- 2D Relayed-COSY
- Multiple-quantum Filtered COSY
- 2D NOESY
- 2D Heteronuclear COSY
- Introduction to 3D NMR
- Triple resonance spectra
- Application to the study of the structure and dynamics of biomolecules.
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