Course Identification

Title:

Basic topics in magnetic resonance

Code:

20242191

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Ilya Kuprov, Prof. Lucio Frydman

TA's:

Daniel Jardon Alvarez

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2024

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Sunday, 11:15 - 13:00, FGS, Rm 4
Wednesday, 12:15 - 14:00, FGS, Rm A

First Lecture:

03/12/2023

End date:

07/02/2024

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Core; 3.00 points
Physical Sciences: Credit points must be approved by the Board of Studies
Life Sciences: Core; 3.00 points

Comments

This course will be held by hybrid learning.
The course location on Sundays is FGS Room 4
The course location on Wednesdays is FGS Class A.

Prof. Frydman will be co-teaching the course with Dr. Jardon-Alvarez from the beginning of the semester till the 26/11 week; Prof. Kuprov will be teaching it after that until 3/1.

*Please note that 100% of the course grade will be based on homework assignments!

Prerequisites

Prior basics knowledge in NMR (e.g., NMR primer

"Theory and Practice of NMR Spin Relaxation in Liquids" course is preferable

Restrictions

Participants:

No

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Final:

100%

Evaluation Type

Other

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

4

Syllabus

Spin-spin couplings

Decoupling

Coherence transfer and spectral editing

J based 2D spectroscopy: Heteronuclear and homonuclear correlations

NOE and NOESY

NMR in static solids: anisotropic interactions and powder patterns

NMR of spinning solids: spinning sidebands, average Hamiltonians.

Solids NMR pulse sequences

NMR of quadrupolar nuclei.

Magnetic resonance of electrons: introduction and the Hamiltonians

DNP mechanisms in static and spinning solids

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to master basic and advanced concepts in magnetic resonance, including the nature of the spin interactions in liquids and solids, the logic of NMR and EPR pulse sequences; multidimensional spectroscopy, double-resonance experiments in liquids and solids, double-resonance experiments involving electrons and nuclei:

Reading List

https://spindynamics.org/group/?page_id=18

Understanding NMR Lectures in http://www-keeler.ch.cam.ac.uk/lectures/

Lectures in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE20foNk9J6Jk3ljqijCmkGLsyJDtBpH3

Website

N/A