Hi Ken,
I know that paper quite well, but I never thought of it as being an "old
paper." What does that say about me? 🙂
I can point to another "old paper" in Concepts:
"The Ancient and Honourable Art of Shimming" by Gwendolyn Chmurny and David Hoult,
/Concepts in Magnetic Resonance/, *1990*, 2, 131-149
And on the topic of shimming:
"Shimming a High-Resolution MAS Probe" by A. Sodickson and David Cory,
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE 128, 87–91 (1997)
And then there's the IUPAC papers on chemical shifts:
Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 73, No. 11, pp. 1795–1818, 2001
and the follow up:
Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 59–84, 2008
If your library still carries Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, then that
is a great resource. In your infinite free time, I encourage you
to go pick up a random issue and just browse.
Cheers,
Bob.
On 2025-07-23 11:15 a.m., Kenneth Sharp-Knott via groups.io wrote:
> It's always a pleasure during a service visit or installation to have
> the opportunity to soak up from the font of knowledge carried around
> in the brains of the NMR engineers. I was the beneficent of a recent
> visit from a man who'd been around the proverbial NMR block who shares
> my insatiable need to understand the why's and how's of what we do
> around the NMR lab.
>
> The engineer, who prefers to live in anonymity, mentioned an old paper
> by *Paul A. Keifer "90-degree pulse width calibrations: How to read a
> pulse width array". Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, Apr 20, 1999*.
> This is a true masterpiece that left my jaw dropped. So many
> questions I have had over the years answered in one single paper.
>
> It made me wonder how many other gems of the past that are out there
> which might need resurrection for the benefit of the newer generation
> of NMR chemists and lab managers to be. I was hoping that those of
> you in the list who have been around longer than I might share your
> favorites and give us all some good bedtime reads.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Ken Sharp-Knott
> Manager of Analytical Services and the NMR Facility
> Department of Chemistry
> Virginia Tech
>
> (540)267-6502 (Cell)
> (540)231-0885 (Office)
>
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