In the previous NMR post, we looked at a small bit of NMR theory and also discussed chemical shift. This post will focus on proton NMR...

Have you ever heard of an MRI? Magnetic Resonance Imaging, to be more detailed. If you have ever had an injury to body tissue, I am willing to bet you have possibly had a MRI scan. Well, it turns out that chemists use a very similar instrument to look at molecules. I'll come back to the MRI a bit later. The instrument that chemists use is called an NMR spectrometer, or a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. So how does this instrument work? Well, to understand the