I have completed my NMR training today. This means that I can schedule and run my own experiments and I do not have to ask the manager of NMR facility to do it for me. That is essential for monitoring my degradation and identify metabolites using 13C-NMR.
Training was good and now after several sessions under supervision (and a final test ;)) I am comfortable using the instrument. It is a Varian Mercury 300 (running with a 300 MHz magnet; a pretty standard configuration for routine measurements). The software is VNMR running under Solaris. My UNIX knowledge comes in handy here. I have no problem using the software and manipulating my data. The challenge was to control the settings for measurements properly, namely tuning and shiming in order to obtain nice symmetric peaks.
This is going to be fun!
