Submitted by: "Blaise Frederick" <bbfcmm@rcn.com>
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:11 PM
 
 

    NMRpal was designed for two purposes. The first is to perform NMR calculations such as finding Ernst angles and the like conveniently (as you're sitting in front of the scanner). These are simple calculations, but I find that anything that requires more than 3 or 4 operations on a handheld calculator, I'm likely to mess up.

    The other purpose is to consolidate as much specific NMR information as possible in a convenient form (properties and gammas of nuclei, and resonance positions of lines). This is to help with the "conference problem" - you go to ENC or SMR and see lots of talks and papers that make you think about all the cool projects you want to do as soon as you get back to the lab, ("Eureka! If only I had a nitrogen echo planar imaging sequence...), and you can't wait to start doing back of the envelope calculations to see if your brainstorms are practical. But of course, you didn't bring a stack of reference books and papers with you, so you have to try to remember if it's N-14 or N-15 that's the dominant isotope, and which one is spin 1, blah blah blah, so you have to wait until you get home to decide if your idea is doable.  (Putting this data in electronic form is also useful if your reference books have a tendency to wander into other people's offices...)

    One (I think) cool feature of the way this data is stored is that the reference information will be editable and sharable by the user. I did this because I want NMRpal to be useful to as many people as possible.  Since I know nothing about many nuclei, it makes more sense that other people can create and share databases tailored to their specific needs.
 

    The homepage for the program is:

http://users.rcn.com/bbfcmm/loafpan.html

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