Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:09:57 +0000
Hi all,
So I stumbled across http://www.elegant-nmr.com/ last night and it seems to be extremely new (not to mention that their website seems perpetually stuck in the 1990s</marquee >).
I'm asking the AMMRL mailing list to see what the snake-oil factor is. For the supposed pre-order price of 500 euros it seems too good to be true. On the flip side the FAQ does seem to be fairly transparent and the Youtube videos have 'awkward academic/genius' all over it rather than sales-guy talk. I am going to email that company and ask for more details as well.
The premise is that it's a small PTFE inerted in-situ NMR probe that you can insert directly into reaction mixtures, with (what appears to be) a hallbach array of neodymium magnets to make a ~1.2T, with 4 separate coils and some black-boxed algorithms to compensate for an inhomogenous magnetic field. It sounds hand-wavy but it's so different to our supercon magnets.
Personally I've loosely followed the literature developments over the years and seen incremental progress in this direction, so permanent magnet low-field NMR I can believe. This really could take off if implemented correctly, though early-adopters will inevitably help shape future versions (by way of on-line process analytical technology).
So what does AMMRL make of this? Snake oil? Believable?
Thanks & Regards,
Norman Chu
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Torcan Site
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