Bruker AVANCE User Guides (BAVUG)

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BAVUG (TopSpin 3.2) Table of Contents

Avance-400, 500Prod, 500DCH [artemis, persephone, callisto]

OneSheetGuides: Acquisition Step-by-Step and Data Archiving to Castor
 

1. Automation using IconNMR and the SampleJet Robot
    
2. Making connections to castor.chem.wisc.edu to obtain Bruker Avance data
    
3. Common NMR experiments obtained via IconNMR (Chem637 HW)
    
4. Directly-detected 1D X-nucleus exps in TopSpin (13C, 31P, 19F, 29Si, 11B, etc)
    
5. Pulsewidth calibrations in TopSpin
    
6. T1 estimates using TopSpin
    
7. Accurate T1 measurements using IconNMR
    
8. 2D NMR via Topsspin (Chem637 HW)
    
9. 2D NMR via IconNMR: cosy/cosylr/dqcosy, tocsy/hsqc, hmbc (Chem636 HW)
    
10. Selective 1D experiments
     
11. Solvent Suppression (now includes wet and wetdc)
     
12. no-D 1H (and 13C) NMR
     
13. 2H (deuterium) NMR
     
14. Use of the SampleCase Robot (persephone 500)
     
15. Running IconNMR in Individual TopSpin Sessions
     
16. Variable Temperature NMR
     
17. Monitoring Kinetics by NMR (usually on persephone 500)
     
18. DOSY/Diffusion notes for TopSpin 3.x
     
19. Ligand Binding: Saturation-Transfer Difference (STD) and CPMG
     
20. C13 T1 values from HC-hsqc
     
21. Non-Uniform Sample (NUS) for greatly improved resolution in 2D NMR
     
22. Boron NMR in solution in TopSpin
     
23. Setting up 19F adiabatic decoupling (admin notes)
     
24. CMC-se and CMC-assist notes (Structure Elucidation & Structure Verification)
     

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