Understanding NMR Spectroscopy

Catalog description

Course aimed at graduate students who have some familiarity with high-resolution NMR who wish to deepen their understanding of how NMR experiments actually 'work'. Introduces quantum mechanical tools needed to understand pulse sequences, with emphasis on obtaining good understanding of how experiments actually work. Course also covers advanced biomolecular NMR experiments that enable structural and dynamic characterization of biomolecules. For roughly half of course, students will be expected to follow online lectures that accompany course textbook, with class meetings emphasizing concepts, group discussion, and problem solving. Prerequisites: undergraduate physical chemistry, undergraduate biochemistry, and one year of calculus.