From complex structure elucidation to biomolecular interactions - this applicationoriented
textbook covers both theory and practice of modern NMR applications. Part one sets the stage
with a general description of NMR introducing important parameters such as the chemical shift
and scalar or dipolar couplings. Part two describes the theory behind NMR providing a profound
understanding of the involved spin physics deliberately kept shorter than in other NMR
textbooks and without a rigorous mathematical treatment of all the physico-chemical
computations. Part three discusses technical and practical aspects of how to use NMR. Important
phenomena such as relaxation exchange or the nuclear Overhauser effects and the methods of
modern NMR spectroscopy including multidimensional experiments solid state NMR and the
measurement of molecular interactions are the subject of part four. The final part explains the
use of NMR for the structure determination of selected classes of complex biomolecules from
steroids to peptides or proteins nucleic acids and carbohydrates. For chemists as well as
users of NMR technology in the biological sciences.
