SYNOPSIS: Intro to solid-state NMR

D. Joe Anderson (adrs@uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:19:35 -0500 (EST)

Just thought I'd pass along a summary of the responses to my question
regarding a good introduction to solid-state NMR. Fyfe's text wins as the
most popular, though one person warns that it isn't useful as a text.
Unfortunately, our library does not own a copy. I'd still be interested in
hearing from others who have review articles to recommend.

Listed below is my original query, followed by the responses I got,
stripped of email headers for clarity and brevity's sake and to protect the
innocent. ;-)

Thanks to those on the list who responded.

--Joe

Subject: Solid state NMR
Date: Thu, Dec 29, 1994 11:59AM

Can anyone on the list recommend good introductory texts or review articles
on solid state NMR? This would be an introduction suitable for someone
familiar with routing multinuclear 1D solution NMR and with some experience
in 2D solution NMR.

Thanks,

--Joe
adrs@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

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Hi

It may not be an elementary introduction but there is a new book out
by Schmidt-Rohr and Spiess 'Multdimensional Solid State NMR and Polymers'
which has a great clarity about it...great figures and clear theory. My
copy is not here yet but I think it had some good introducory description
as well.

For examples I like Colin Fyfe's NMR for Chemists but it has an odd
publisher and may be out of print. It has a lot of interesting spectra
but poor as a textbook.

I think what you are looking for does not exit yet but if some good
introductory long review or even book turns up I would like to hear about
it.

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Dear Joe,

Good general text:

"Solid state NMR for chemists", by C.A. Fyfe, CFC Press, 1983.

The following have a polymer slant:

"High resolution NMR spectroscopy of synthetic polymers in bulk",
edited by Richard A. Komoroski.
VCH Publishers, c1986.

"High-resolution solid-state 13C-NMR spectroscopy of polymers",
R. Voelkel, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 27 (1988) 1468-1483.

For an intro to quadrupolar nuclei:

"MAS NMR spectroscopy of minerals and glasses", R.J. Kirkpatrick,
in: Reviews in Mineralogy, vol 18., "Spectroscopic methods in mineralogy
and geology", 1988.

Or for zeolites and catalysts:

"Solid-state NMR studies of molecular seive catalysts",
J. Klinowski, Chem. Rev., 1991, 91, 1459-1479.

These give a basic introduction - there are many more on specific subject
areas, but these should get you started. If you would like references
specifically on polymers please let me know.

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I would advise a book: Solid state NMR for chemists by Colin A. Fyfe,
CFC Press (PO Box 1720, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 6Z9) 1983

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[another Fyfe recommendation ellided]

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