Classic NMR Papers

Here you will find a (non-exhaustive) list of classic NMR papers that helped shape the field into what it is today.

 

The Molecular Beam Resonance Method for Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moments (1939) - I. I. Rabi (Nobel Laureate), S. Millman, P. Husch (Nobel Laureate) and J. R. Zacharias 

Nuclear Induction (1946) - F. Bloch (Nobel Laureate)

Resonance Absorption by Nuclear Magnetic Moments in Solids (1946) - E. M. Purcell (Nobel Laureate), H. C. Torrey and R. V. Pound

The Dependence of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Frequency upon Chemical Compound (1950) - W. G. Proctor, F. C. Yu

Dependence of the F19 Nuclear Resonance Position on Chemical Compound (1950) - W. C. Dickinson

Spin Echoes (1950) - E. L. Hahn

Chemical Effects on Nuclear Induction Signals from Organic Compounds (1951) - J. T. Arnold, S. S. Dharmatti, M. E. Packard

 

Relaxation Processes in a System of Two Spins (1955) - I. Solomon

Overhauser Effect in Nonmetals (1955) - A. Abragam

On the Theory of Relaxation Processes (1957) - A. G. Redfield

Spin Temperature (1958) - A. Abragam, W. G. Proctor

Selection of Coherence-transfer Pathways in NMR Pulse Experiments (1984) - G. Bodenhousen, H. Kogler and R. R. Ernst (Nobel Laureate)

Product Operator Formalism for the Description of NMR Pulse Experiments (1984)- O. W. Sorensen, G. W. Eich, M. H. Levitt, G. Bodenhausen, R. R. Ernst (Nobel Laureate)

 

Removal of Dipolar Broadening of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Solids by Specimen Rotation (1959) - E. R. Andrew, A. Bradbury, R. G. Eades

Free Induction Decays of Rotating Solids (1959) - I. J. Lowe

Proton‐Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy. A Method for High Resolution NMR of Dilute Spins in Solids (1972) - A. Pines, M. G. Gibby, J. S. Waugh

Heteronuclear decoupling in rotating solids (1995) - A. E. Bennett, C. M. Rienstra, M. Auger, K. V. Lakshmi, R. G. Griffin

 

NMR population inversion using a composite pulse (1979) - M. H. Levitt, R. Freeman

Separation of the different orders of NMR multiple-quantum transitions by the use of pulsed field gradients (1980) - A. Bax, P. G. De Jong, A. F. Mehlkopf, J. Smidt

Gaussian Pulses (1984) - C. Bauer, R. Freeman, T. Frenkiel, J. Keeler, A. J. Shaka

Frequency-modulated “Chirp” pulses for broadband inversion recovery in magnetic resonance (1990) - J. Bohlen, I. Burghurdt, M. Rey, G. Bodenhausen

Band-Selective Radiofrequency Pulses (1991) - H. Geen, R. Freeman

Pure absorption gradient enhanced heteronuclear single quantum correlation spectroscopy with improved sensitivity (1992) - L. E. Kay, P. Keifer, T. Saarinen

Adiabatic Pulses for Wideband Inversion and Broadband Decoupling (1995) - E. Kupce, R. Freeman

Short Selective Pulses for Biochemical Applications (1995) - E. Kupce, J. Boyd, I. D. Campbell

Elimination of Zero‐Quantum Interference in Two‐Dimensional NMR Spectra (2003) - M. J. Thrippleton, J Keeler

 

 

Influence of a Second Radiofrequency Field on High‐Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra (1962) - W. A. Anderson, R. Freeman

Utilization of chirp frequency modulation with 180°-phase modulation for heteronuclear spin decoupling (1979) - V. J. Basus, P. D. Ellis, H. D. W. Hill, J. S. Waugh

Composite Pulse Decoupling (1981) - M. H. Levitt, R. Freeman

Supercycles for Broadband Heteronuclear Decoupling (1982) - M. H. Levitt, R. Freeman, T. Frenkiel

Theory of Broadband Decoupling (1982) - J. S. Waugh

An Improved Sequence for Broadband Decoupling: Waltz-16 (1983) - A. J. Shaka, J. Keeler, T. Frenkiel, R. Freeman

Computer-optimized decoupling scheme for wideband applications and low-level operation (1985) - A. J. Shaka, P. B. Barker, R. Freeman

Theory of Broadband Decoupling in Multispin Systems (1987) - D. Suter, K. V. Schencker, A. Pines

Suppression of Cycling Sidebands Using Bi-level Adiabatic Decoupling (1996) - E. Kupce, R. Freeman, G. Wider, K. Wutrich (Nobel Laureate)

 

Polarization of Nuclear Spins in Metals (1953) - T. R. Carver, C. P. Slichter

Parahydrogen and synthesis allow dramatically enhanced nuclear alignment (1987) - C. R. Bowers, D. P. Weitekamp

Net NMR alignment by adiabatic transport of parahydrogen addition products to high magnetic field (1988) - M. G. Pravica, D. P. Weitekamp

Reversible Interactions with para-Hydrogen Enhance NMR Sensitivity by Polarization Transfer (2009) - R. W. Adams, J. A. Anguilar, K. D. Atkinson, M. J. Cowley, P. I. P. Elliott, S. B. Duckett, G. G. R. Green, I. G. Khazal, J. Lopez-Serrano, D. C. Williamson