DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

CY7510 : Advanced Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Theoretical Chemistry
  • The concept of spin density operator and the dynamics-time evolution of the density operator and the interaction picture-Magnus expansion and average Hamiltonians.
  • Theory of spin lattice relaxation-Bloch-Wangsness and Redfield relaxation theories, correlation times and relaxation times from first principles.
  • The Nuclear Overhauser Effect.
  • Introduction to various operator bases used in pulse dynamics calculations in magnetic resonance-product operators, single spin multiplet operators, fictitious spin 1/2 operators and irreducible spherical tensor operators.
  • Multiple quantum NMR-basic ideas of time domain multiple quantum NMR spectroscopy.
  • The theory of two dimensional Fourier transformation in NMR-coherence transfer pathways-concepts and observables-a few selective examples from COSY, TOCSY and NOESY spectra.

References:

  1. Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in One and Two Dimensions by R.R.Emst, G.Bodenhausen and A.Wokaun, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1987).
  2. Principles of Magnetic Resonance by C.P.Slichter, Springer-Verlag, 1980.
  3. Principles of Non-linear Optical Spectroscopy, S.Mukamel, Oxford University Press, 1995.
  4. Spin Choreography-Basis Steps in High Resolution NMR by R.Freeman, Spektrum, Oxford, 1997.