Electronegativity is a concept that we have to study and understand early in our science or engineering degrees. In chemistry this concept stays with us and we commonly invoke it in order to explain multiple phenomena what we observe or study…and of course, NMR is not the exception! Benchtop NMR 1-855-NMREADY (667-3239) toll-free in the US and Canada

The Wittig reaction is a high-yielding, versatile synthetic procedure used to construct carbon-carbon double bonds. Unlike other sp2 bond forming reactions this can be used to provide convenient access to a cis– stereochemistry. At the time the reaction was discovered by Georg Wittig, this cis– confirmation was not reliably afforded by other synthetic means. To …

2,4-pentanedione (aka acetylacetone, acetylacetonato or acacH) is not only a ubiquitous ligand (AND ligand precursor!) for beautifully coloured organometallic complexes[1-3]

For an example of qNMR, I want to talk about an analytical method – standard addition.  If you’re anything like me, you HATED standard addition in undergraduate analytical chemistry.

Sustainability has become a main focus of innovation.  Topics of green chemistry, and renewable feedstocks, are paramount in society today.  Biodiesel is one such example!  Read more.

Welcome back!  If you recall from our last blog, we followed a bench-top NMR electronics blueprint to highlight the technology that allows the generation of an excitation wave and tailors it to nutate our hydrogen nuclei in our sample.  Now, keeping with our goal of demystifying the technology of ...

Hello, my fellow Bench-top NMR enthusiasts!  If you’re like me and ever pondered your deeply burning engineering questions concerning NMR on the bench top, then look no further!

Learning about the parameters that are vital for obtaining good spectra – a concept that I had learned about in a theoretical sense, but as a synthetic chemist rarely thought about when collecting routine data.

NMR spectroscopy, as it is typically discussed, or at least how it is initially taught, tends to refer to static systems.  Chemical shifts, integrations and multiplicities are typically reported on

Incorporation of NMR Spectroscopy into an undergraduate lab provides an excellent method with which to provide students with practical experiments and hands-on experience acquiring