The goal of this manual is to describe the basic components of a Bruker spectrometer, their functionality, and how they are addressed by the TopSpin software to acquire NMR data. This should enable a relatively inexperienced user to carry out a series of basic 1-D High Resolution (HR) NMR experiments. Menthyl Antranilate was selected as an example. Both proton observe and carbon observe with proton decoupling will be described. To assist the user, standard parameter sets delivered with every TopSpin software package will be used. This emphasis minimizes the time spent on the actual spectrometer itself, particularly in the case where relatively large numbers of undergraduate students are being trained. In this scenario processing can be easily carried out on a separate PC using the tutorials delivered with the spectrometer documentation.

For the purpose of instruction within this manual it is assumed that the user has:

While every effort has been made to genuinely provide a step by step description, new users will invariably have some questions, and as such will require occasional assistance from a more experienced user. The goal of this manual is, where practicable, to enable users to work independently and acquire a basic understanding of how to operate the system. It is hoped that the time taken to train new users will be significantly reduced through the use of this manual.