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Fitting dynamic NMR lineshapes
Author(s) -
Bain Alex D.,
Rex Darrell M.,
Smith Rashida N.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.483
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1097-458X
pISSN - 0749-1581
DOI - 10.1002/mrc.806
Subject(s) - chemistry , process (computing) , principal (computer security) , statistical physics , spectrum (functional analysis) , computational physics , algorithm , mathematics , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
The lineshapes in an NMR spectrum, due to dynamic processes within the sample, provide an excellent way of measuring the rates of these processes. As the process speeds up, lines broaden, coalesce and finally sharpen into an average peak. Mathematical techniques for simulating these lineshapes have long been available, and rates can be extracted by fitting the calculated lineshape to the experiment. This is often done by manual iteration and visual comparison. The principal iterative program, DNMR5, is somewhat clumsy by modern standards. A recent reformulation of the theory of the lineshapes, which describes the spectrum as a sum of transitions, simplifies setting up the iterative process. This approach is described in general, and illustrated with the two‐site equally populated case. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.