An Interactive Spreadsheet for Demonstration of Basic NMR and Fourier Transform Concepts

摘要

The spreadsheet was originally developed to augment anelective undergraduate course on NMR spectroscopy that wasdesigned as a hands-on instrument workshop and has beenoffered during a two-week winter session. In this workshopcourse, students were either working with NMR simulator(Bruker-Biospin) or the NMR instrument directly to explorethe results of a variety of NMR experiments with the goal to findoptimized parameter sets. While the NMR simulator proved tobe instructive in exploring NMR pulse programs, there remainedthe need to demystify some of the basic NMR processing stepsincluding how a spectrum is actually obtained from the FID.The interactive spreadsheet filled this gap. In addition, theinteractive spreadsheet could serve as a lecture demonstrationor a self-guided tutorial outside of class in other undergraduatecourses such as physical chemistry or instrumental methods.The spreadsheet has also served as an effective training tool aspart of undergraduate research projects involving the frequentuse of NMR spectroscopy.