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VUG Table of Contents

[Links to Step-by-Step Instructions are provided in section 5 below]

1. Title page, Detailed Table of Contents, and
   Facility Description
    
2. Quick Guide for New Users
   Login; Setup; Lock-n-Shim; Probe Tuning; Acquisition;
   Saving and Deleting Data, and Backups; Logging Out; Don'ts
    
3. Introduction to Unix and VNMR
   Common Unix Commands
   Common VNMR Commands, Parameters, and Flags
   VNMR Directory Structure
   Common Pulse Sequence Setup in VNMR
   VNMR to Bruker-AM/AC Parameter Conversion Table
   Trouble-Shooting
    
4. Operation of Varian 500s
   Proper Exiting and Login In and Initial VNMR Setup
   Commands for First Time and Novice Users
   Probe Changes
   Probe Tuning
   Lock and Shim
    
5. Experiments on Varian Spectrometers
• Normal 1d 1H Acquisition (step-by-step--sbs--instructions)
  1H pw90 Calibration (sbs)
  1H T1 estimates (sbs)
  1d Data Workup and Plotting
   
• X Acquisition (e.g., 31P or 13C)   (sbs)
  Table 6: common Decoupler Parameter Settings;
  13C (X) pw90 and {1H} Decoupler Calibrations
• DEPT   (sbs)
• INEPT   (sbs)
   
• COSY - absolute value fast-COSY   (sbs)
  2d Data Workup and Plotting
• DQ-COSY   (sbs)
• TOCSY-1D Spectroscopy (sbs only)
• TOCSY and Other COSY Variants   (sbs)
• Notes on TOCSY, ROESY, spin-locks, and Watergate water suppression
   
• NOESY-1D Spectroscopy (sbs only)
  Reducing ZQ artifacts, and quantitative distances - Double-differencing NOESY1D spectra
• 1d NOE-Diff, HOMODEC and presat   (Chem637 notes)
• NOESY
• ROESY
   
• HETCOR
• HSQC and gHMBC (sbs)
   
• Presaturation of Solvent Peaks (Chem637 notes)
• Multiple solvent peak suppression using WET
   
• Deuterium NMR on Varian Spectrometers
• 19F on the UNITY-500; 1H{19F} or 19F{1H} on the INOVA-500
• 205Tl setup on INOVA-500
   
• Measurement of Spin-Lattice Relaxtion Time, T1
• Variable Temperature Experiments on Varian Spectrometers
• Acquiring Kinetics Datasets in VNMR
  For kinetics processing, see also "Notes on Performing Quantitative Analysis Using VNMR" (item 10 below)
   
6. PFG Shimming
    
7. Plotting VNMR Data:
   VNMR plotting - common commands
   VNMR plotting - common parameters; graphical layout
   Porting VNMR Data to PCs/Macs - generating postscript files, and extracting arrayed spectra for NUTS
    
8. Absolute Frequency Calculations in VNMR
    
9. Deconvolution Peak Fitting in VNMR
    
10. Notes on Performing Quantitative Analysis Using VNMR
     
11. Notes on BioPack: 1st time setup, Philosophy, and gChsqc referencing