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As a spectroscopic method, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has seen spectacular growth, both as a technique and in its applications. Today's applications of NMR span a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics to biology to medicine. Each volume of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance comprises a combination of annual and biennial reports which together provide comprehensive coverage of the literature on this topic. This Specialist Periodical Report reflects the growing volume of published work involving NMR techniques and applications, in particular NMR of natural macromolecules, which is covered in two reports: NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids and NMR of Carbohydrates, Lipids and Membranes. In his foreword to the first volume, the then editor, Professor Robin Harris announced that the series would be a discussion on the phenomena of NMR and that articles will be critical surveys of the literature. This has certainly remained the case throughout the series, and in line with its predecessors, Volume 40 aims to provide a comprehensive coverage of the relevant NMR literature. For the current volume this relates to publications appearing between June 2009 and May 2010 (the nominal period of coverage in volume 1 was July 1970 to June 1971). Compared to the previous volume there are some new members of the reporting team. Theoretical Aspects of Spin-Spin Couplings are covered by J. Jazwinski, while E. Swiezewska and J.W¾jcik provide an account of NMR of Carbohydrates, Lipids and Membranes.

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The fields chosen are all very active, ranging over physical, organic, analytical and biological chemistry.the volume proves a useful snapshot of the work done in a particularfield and thus it is a helpful entry into the literatureThis reference work is produced to a high quality The book provides a comprehensive compilation of the literature over the designated 12-month period the volume proves a useful snapshot of the work done in a particular field and thus it is a helpful entry into the literature from which more infonnation could be obtained. Given the diverse subject matter of the various chapters. This reference work is produced to a high quality -- John C. Lindon Chromatographia (2012) 75:559-560 DOl 10. 1007/s 10337-012-2209-5 This volume is a compilation and summary of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy literature from June 2009 to May 2010 and is the latest in a long line of similar volumes, the first being published in 1972. Selected aspects of NMR spectroscopy are chosen for each volume, because it would indeed be impossible to cover the whole of the NMR literature for even one year in a single volume. In this edition, the first chapter lists NMR books and reviews for the period in question, these alone providing 635 references. The next two chapters describe research into theoretical and physical aspects of nuclear shielding (the property giving rise to the chemical shift) including full tensor calculations and isotope shifts, followed by applications of nuclear shielding, covering comprehensively all of the various nuclides that give rise to NMR spectra. Similarly the next two chapters cover theoretical aspects of spin-spin couplings (by this is meant only the indirect or J-coupling, although there is a short section on residual dipolar couplings as seen in oriented samples), again covering a wide range of nuclear pairs and also anisotropy in the J tensor, followed by applications of spin-spin couplings for many pairs of nuclides, listing interactions over one, two, three and more bonds, plus through-space effects and couplings across hydrogen bonds. One section lists new pulse methods for obtaining J-coupling values. Next comes an excellent critical review chapter on nuclear spin relaxation in liquids and gases covering theory, experimental methods and selected applications. This is followed by a chapter on solid state NMR spectroscopy, describing new experimental methods, determination of NMR parameters for both spin one-half and quadruple nuclei, and applications ranging over organic and inorganic systems, amino acids, peptides and proteins, biomedical and pharmaceutical systems, coals, polymers, glasses, porous solids and surfaces. There are also subsequent chapters on applications of NMR spectroscopy to proteins and nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids and membranes, synthetic macromolecules, liquid crystals and micellar solutions and finally NMR in Jiving systems, including new methodologies. The fields chosen are all very active, ranging over physical, organic, analytical and biological chemistry, with much research being undertaken across the world. The coverage of the literature has resulted in thousands of citations just in these selected fields, with several chapters providing over 400 references. Whilst the book provides a comprehensive compilation of the literature over the designated 12-month period (with one chapter covering 24 months from June 2008), in general there is not a great deal of critical review of the papers cited and of course by the time the book is published even the latest references are already more than a year old. Nevertheless, the volume proves a useful snapshot of the work done in a particular field and thus it is a helpful entry into the literature from which more information could be obtained. Given the diverse subject matter of the various chapters, most scientists would probably be interested in only one chapter. This reference work is produced to a high quality but in this age of online literature searching and electronic journals, it is unlikely that this volume will be bought by many individuals, and it is suspected that institutional libraries will be the chief purchasers. -- John C. Lindon Chromatographia (2012) 75:559-560 DOl 10. 1007/s 10337-012-2209-5

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Professor Krystyna Kamienska-Trela is based at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

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