Contributors .................................................... 7
Preface ........................................................ ix
1 Recent Advances in Nuclear Shielding Calculations ............ 1
Angel C. de Dios and Cynthia J. Jameson
1 Overview of This Review ................................... 4
2 Advances in Methods of Calculation ........................ 5
3 Local Effects on Shielding: Single Molecules, Clusters,
and Fragments ............................................ 15
4 Shielding in Extended Networks ........................... 25
5 Dynamic Averaging of Shielding ........................... 42
6 Extracting Information from NMR Chemical Shifts with
the Help of Theoretical Calculations ..................... 54
References .................................................. 61
2 Pure Phase Encode Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Fluids in
Porous Media ................................................ 81
Colleen E. Muir and Bruce J. Balcom
1 Introduction ............................................. 82
2 Relaxation in Porous Media ............................... 83
3 Frequency Encoding and Phase Encoding .................... 85
4 Applications of SPRITE ................................... 97
5 Spin Echo Single Point Imaging .......................... 101
6 Applications of SE-SPI .................................. 107
7 Conclusions ............................................. 110
Acknowledgments ............................................ 111
References ................................................. 111
3 Steroids and NMR ........................................... 115
Martin Jaeger and Ruud L.E.G. Aspers
1 Prologue ................................................ 116
2 An Introduction to Steroids ............................. 116
3 Structure Elucidation of Steroids ....................... 134
4 Applied NMR Methodology in Steroid Analysis ............. 171
5 Computer-Assisted Structure Elucidation ................. 189
6 Modern and Rare NMR Methods in the Steroid Field ........ 211
7 Conclusion and Considerations ........................... 225
Acknowledgments ............................................ 235
References ................................................. 235
4 Structural Characterization of Zeolites by Advanced
Solid State NMR Spectroscopic Methods ...................... 259
Luis Mafra, José Alejandro Vidal-Moya, and Teresa Blasco
1 Introduction ............................................ 260
2 29Si NMR: Structural Characterization of Zeolites ....... 264
3 27Al NMR of Zeolites .................................... 276
4 11B NMR of Boron Containing Zeolites: Trigonal Boron .... 295
5 1H NMR Spectroscopy: Zeolite Bronsted Acid Sites and
the Use of Probe Molecules .............................. 299
6 Advance Methods: Theoretical and Practical Aspects ...... 301
7 Conclusions ............................................. 338
Acknowledgements ........................................... 338
References ................................................. 338
Index ......................................................... 353
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