Courses and Learning Materials

NMR User Certification

Three-hour class for safe and effective operation of the NMR spectrometers and probes

• Pre-requisites: familiarity with NMR texts such as Understanding NMR Spectroscopy by James Keeler
• Registrants: required for all hands-on NMR users
• Instructor: Sara Whittaker

NMR Theory and Practice

Weekly discussions of basic & advanced NMR, pulse sequences and their applications

Basic NMR

• Pre-requisites: familiarity with basic trigonometry and A-level mathematics
• Registrants: anyone interested in NMR
• Instructors: Mark Jeeves, Christian Ludwig
• Recommended reading: Understanding NMR Spectroscopy by James Keeler

Advanced NMR

• Pre-requisites: hands-on practical NMR experience as well as familiarity with NMR theory and product operator formalism.
• Registrants: NMR spectroscopists with some NMR experience
• Instructor: John Kirkpatrick
• Recommended reading: Protein NMR Spectroscopy - Principles and Practice by John Cavanagh et al.

Course materials and preparatory information are available from the instructors.

Please let the staff know if there is another subject you would like to have covered.

Useful online resources

Useful online sources of NMR information include:

• B·NMR's Learning Materials (opens in new window)
• James Keeler's lectures (opens in new window)
• Joseph Hornak's site (opens in new window)