Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy: Products and Applications

Harald Todt, Sales and Marketing, Magritek GmbH, Aachen, Deutschland (harald@magritek.com)

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful and information rich analytical technique that can elucidate molecular structures. Due to the size and complexity of high field NMR instruments, this method has been limited in its use. Recent advances in NMR magnet technologies present us new mobile NMR spectroscopy solutions running cryogen-free on the lab bench or in the fume hood, using either standard NMR tubes or flow cells for monitoring and investigating chemical reactions. Now NMR spectroscopy provides us with an analytical tool that is much more flexible, affordable, robust and easy to use. We will present a number of technical solutions combined with application examples that demonstrate how benchtop NMR spectroscopy can be used for identification and quantification purposes and to monitor reactions in real time. This information can be used to determine reaction end point, optimise yield and provide detailed understanding about reaction kinetics, as well as identify intermediates.

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Short Biography of Presenting Author

- Mr. Harald Todt, born August 24th, 1966 in Frankfurt / Germany

- Diploma Degree at the Technical High School (TH) of Darmstadt in Experimental Physics in 1993 / Diploma Thesis in EPR (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) on heavy fermion systems with special low temperature properties.

- Harald worked for Bruker BioSpin in Karlsruhe from 1994 - 2016 in the field of Time-Domain NMR / NMR Relaxometry as an Application Scientist, Sales and Regional Manager and finally as the Product Manager.

- Harald joined Magritek GmbH in 2016 as a Regional Sales Manager und is working in Israel together with Israel Scientific Instruments ISI.