FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION: NMR spectroscopy - some historic remarks; Present state and outlook; Scope of this book; THE NUCLEI: Spin-1/2 nuclei; Quadrupolar nuclei; INSTRUMENTATION FOR SOLUTION-STATE NMR MEASUREMENTS: How to get the NMR experiment started; How to convert the result into something useful; NMR PARAMETERS -; A BRIEF OVERVIEW: The chemical shift, or nuclear magnetic shielding; Indirect nuclear spin-spin coupling constants, nJ(A,X); Nuclear spin relaxation, T1, T2 and TQ; THE ABSOLUTE WINNERS and still secret winners (1H, 19F, 31P, 203/205 Tl); THE ATTRACTIVE AND INDISPENSIBLES (13C, 14/15N, 29Si); THE ALL TIME FAVORITES IN THEIR OWN FIELD (6/7Li, 10/11B, 17O, 23Na, 27Al, 33S, 35/37Cl, 51V, 55Mn, 59Co, 79/81Br, 95Mo, 111/113Cd, 117/119Sn,127I, 129Xe, 131Cs, 195Pt, 199Hg, 207Pb); SOMEWHAT NEGLECTED BUT EXTREMELY PROMISING CANDIDATES (77Se, 103Rh, 107/109Ag, 123/125Te, 183W); THE CHALLENGERS (57Fe, 187Os); NOT SO EXCITING FOR NMR, BUT SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO MEASURE (9Be, 25Mg, 67Zn, Sc, 75As, 73Ge, Y, La, 121Sb, 207Bi); THE ALMOST HOPELESS CANDIDATES (47/49Ti, 53Cr, 61Ni, 93Zr...); HOPELESS NMR NUCLEI (Hf, Pd, Ir, Au, many lanthanide and actinide nuclei); CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES
