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Pure Appl. Chem., 2001, Vol. 73, No. 11, pp. 1749-1764

http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200173111749

COMMITTEE ON PRINTED AND ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
WORKING PARTY ON SPECTROSCOPIC DATA STANDARDS (JCAMP-DX)

Guidelines for the representation of pulse sequences for solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2001)

Antony N. Davies1*, Jörg Lambert1, Robert J. Lancashire2, Peter Lampen1, Woody Conover3, Michael Frey4, Michael Grzonka5, Evan Williams6 and Douglas Meinhart4

1 ISAS, Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie, Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Strasse 11, 44139 Dortmund, Germany
2 Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
3 ACORN NMR, Inc., 46560 Fremont Blvd #418, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
4 JEOL USA, Inc., 11 Dearborn Rd., Peabody, MA 10960, USA
5 ex. Bruker Instruments, Inc., Manning Park, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
6 Varian, Inc., 3120 Hansen Way, M/S D-300, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA

Abstract:
In drawing up the specifications for a standard for multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) it became clear that the spectroscopic data content needed to be qualified by experimental condition information especially pertaining to the pulse sequences used to obtain the free induced decays or spectra. Failure to include this information not only severely inhibits the ability of subsequent data handling packages to work with the experimental data, but also makes interpretation of the final results virtually impossible.
This paper has been produced in collaboration with the NMR spectrometer manufacturers in an attempt to get agreement on a definitive list of the most frequently used pulse sequence programs. The list includes entries where common agreement has been reached as to the acronym to name the experiment and the key instrument independent parameters needed to report concisely.
It is not intended to restrict in any way the freedom of manufacturers or users to develop new and novel experimental pulse sequences, but should aid reporting of experimental data where the more common sequences are in use.

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