Bruker AC/AM User's Guide (BUG)

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Step-by-Step Intro to the AC Spectrometers [same as Chap. 3 below]
 

BUG Table of Contents

1. Title page, Detailed Table of Contents, and
   Facility Description
    
2. Bruker AC Acquisition Basics
   Pulse Sequence Description; Deuterium Lock; Shimming; Acquisition Parameters
    
3. Introduction to AC+ Spectrometers
   Locking and Shimming with the SCM; Job Files and Lock Power; Data Collection;
   File Transfer: NMRLINK; Departure; Adjusting for SW and O1;
   Spectra Showing Folding of Deshielded Proton; Caveats
    
4. Primers for Areas of Common Interest
    
• Primer on Phasing
• Locking and Shimming Primer #1
• Primer on Bruker EP Mode - Most Common Uses
• Primer for Obtaining Accurate/Consistent Proton Integrations in DISNMR
• Primer for Applying Pearson's Gaussian Apodization in DISNMR
• Primer on Lorentizian and Gaussian (Bruker) Multipliers:
  [MathCAD import]   (142kb)
• Primer for Decoupler Modes on Bruker AC/AM Spectrometers
• Primer for Estimating T1 Values Theoretically
   
5. AM/AC Spectrometer Software
   ADAKOS (Aspect Disk And Keyboard Operating System)
   DISNMR:
     Control Keys and System Commands; Files in DISNMR
     Common Acquisition Commands
     Common Pulse Sequence Commands and Parameters
     Common Data Processing Commands; Common EP Commands
   Plotting with DISNMR
    
6. 2^nd Order Shimming and High Resolution Check-Out
   2nd Order Lock Shimming (Match Tuning) on Z2;
   High Resolution Check-Out:
     FID shimming; window set-up and acquisition;
     lorentzian to gaussian line shape transformation
     resolution enhancement
    
7. Saving Group-Specific Jobfiles, Shim Files, etc.
    
8. Variable Temperature Measurements
    
9. HOMODEC on AM/AC Spectrometers
    
10. 1H Spin-Lattice Relaxation, T₁
     
11. 1D NOE Measurements
     
12. Homonuclear COSY
     
13. X-Nucleus Decoupling on Athena (AC-300a)
     
14. Heteronuclear Correlation on AM/AC Consoles
     
15. NOESY
     
16. Polarization Transfer Experiments (INEPT and DEPT)