Advanced Chemistry Development has revealed that students at Connecticut College are using ACD/Labs NMR processors to learn aspects of NMR spectroscopy.
Dr Bruce Branchini, professor of chemistry at Connecticut College, wanted to find a way to increase the instrument time available to his fourth-year class to complete a semester-long project in which they would use various spectroscopic methods to identify a complex unknown organic sample.
He looked for software that would allow students to process and analyse experimental data away from the instrument, leaving time for more spectra to be acquired The software had to be easy enough to use so that the students could learn it themselves, and had to be easily accessible to all of the students.
ACD/1D and 2D NMR processors allowed the students to import their acquired NMR spectra into the ACD/Labs software installed on laptops, which were assigned to the students for the duration of the project.
The students used the software for several NMR experiments including 1D H-NMR and 13C-NMR, DEPT, 2D HSQC, H, H-COSY and HMBC.
Branchini said: 'One of the main reasons we bought the software was to allow us to minimise the time we used the NMR for data processing.'
