Course Schedule
Fall 2017
Time: 2:00-3:30PM Tuesday and Thursday
Location: CMROI Conference Room
B1 Stellar-Chance Labs (Basement)
Date / Topic
September 12 / Orientation / Neil/Ari/Mark/Ravi/Hari
September 14 / No Class
September 19 / Introduction to NMR / Ravi
September 21 / No Class
September 26 / Introduction to MATLAB for NMR techniques / Neil/Mark
September 28 / The Bloch Equations / Ravi
October 3 / Fourier Transform NMR / Mark
October 5 / Spin Echoes and Simple Pulse Experiments / Mark
October 10 / Nuclear Spin Relaxation / Neil
October 12 / Chemical Shifts and J-coupling / Hari
October 17 / Methods for Measuring Relaxation Times / Ari
October 19 / Chemical Exchange Theory / Hari
October 24 / Practical I (Measurement of Relaxation Time) and II (CS and J-coupling) / Hari
October 26 / Practical III (Chemical Exchange) / Neil
Reference Books:
B1. A. Abragam, Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991.
B2. R.R. Ernst, G. Bodenhausen, and A. Wokaun, Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in One and Two Dimensions, Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 1990.
B3. T.C. Farrar, E.D. Becker, Pulse and Fourier Transform NMR: Introduction to Theory and Methods, Academic Press, New York, 1971.
B4. Ray Freeman, A Hand Book of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Longman Scientific & Technical, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1988.
B5. B.C. Gerstein and C.R. Dybowski, Transient Techniques in NMR of Solids: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, Academic Press, 1985.
B6. R.K. Harris, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy: A Physicochemical View, Longman Scientific & Technical, New York, 1986.
B7. C.P. Slichter, Principles of Magnetic Resonance, 3rd Edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990.
B8. R.N. Bracewell, The Fourier Transfer and its Application, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
B9.M.H. Levitt, Spin Dynamics, Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, John Wiley & Sons, LTD, 2001.