Hello David,
I was very excited to hear that the Concepts archive is now open access.
Years ago I'd scanned the Ancient Art of Shimming article from
Alex Bain's hard copy of the issue, so I was looking forward to having
an official PDF copy. But when I clicked the PDF download link you
sent, I was informed that my institution does not provide access to this
content. I think our library's access only starts in the mid-1990s.
For the synthetic chemistry groups, I have two related papers that I think
are worth mentioning:
"NMR Chemical Shifts of Common Laboratory Solvents as Trace Impurities"
J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 7512-7515 and
"NMR Chemical Shifts of Trace Impurities: Common Laboratory Solvents,
Organics, and Gases in Deuterated Solvents Relevant to the
Organometallic Chemist" Organometallics 2010, 29, 2176–2179
The 1997 JOC paper is an excellent resource for the average organic
chemist, but the updated version in 2010 has a much more expanded list
of common reagents and solvents that you will see in the typical NMR
spectrum from a synthetic chemistry group. I tell students to actually
PRINT the tables of 1H and 13C chemical shifts and post these tables
above their desk for quick reference.
Cheers,
Bob.
On 2025-07-23 2:51 p.m., David Rovnyak via groups.io wrote:
> Quick tip: as libraries reduce their physical holdings, ask your
> library for the hard copies of the Concepts issues before they get
> discarded.
>
> The Concepts archive is largely open access at:
> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/6471
>
> Quick link to the Keifer article:
> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/*28SICI*291099-0534*281999*2911*3A3*3C165*3A*3AAID-CMR4*3E3.0.CO*3B2-D
>
> And the ancient art of shimming:
> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cmr.1820020303
>
> -David
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