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NMR-SAMS

UNIX User’s Guide

 

An expert system for computer-assisted structure elucidation

of organic and natural product compounds based on multidimensional spectroscopy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

NMR-SAMS User’s Guide, Version 2.4

 

This manual describes release 2.4 of the UNIX SGI/SUN version of NMR-SAMS™.

 

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 1996 through 2002, Spectrum Research, LLC.  All rights reserved.

No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form by any means without the written permission of Spectrum Research, LLC.  

 

All possible care has been taken in the preparation of this document but Spectrum Research accepts no liability for any errors/omissions that may be found.

 

Spectrum Research, LLC. reserves the right to change the information in this document without prior notice.

 

Trademarks

SpecManTM and NMR-SAMSTM are trademarks of Spectrum Research, LLC.

 

Acknowledgments

NMR-SAMSTM (originally known as CISOC-SES) has been developed by Dr. Shengang Yuan, Dr. Chen Peng and Prof. Chongzhi Zheng at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China, 1988-1994.  It has been further improved by Dr. Chen Peng in the group of Dr. Geoffrey Bodenhausen at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in 1995-1996.  Portions of NMR-SAMSTM are copyright © 1988 through 1995, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and Florida State University, and are exclusively licensed to Spectrum Research, LLC.  Title and full ownership rights to the converted/modified NMR-SAMSTM will remain solely with Spectrum Research, LLC, and NMR-SAMSTM is asserted to be Spectrum Research’s proprietary information and trade secret.

 

Credits

If the results (figures and/or data) obtained by NMR-SAMSTM are used for publication purposes, please refer to NMR-SAMSTM in the following manner or any other equivalent form:

" NMR-SAMSTM software, developed by Spectrum Research, LLC., was used to compute the results in this publication".

 

 

 


Table of Contents

Table of Contents. i

Abbreviations And Acronyms. i

Introduction. 1

1.1 General 1

1.2 Application Limitations. 3

1.3 System Requirements. 4

1.4 Help Facility. 4

1.5 Typographical Conventions. 4

1.6 A Note on Operating Systems. 5

Getting Started with NMR-SAMS. 6

2.1 Installation of the Program.. 6

2.2 Spectrum Research Licensing. 6

2.3 Starting NMR-SAMS. 6

2.4 The Basics. 7

2.5 Description of the Main Menus. 9

2.6 The NMR-SAMS Toolbar 10

Understanding NMR-SAMS. 12

3.1 Overview.. 12

3.2 General Procedure of Structure Elucidation with NMR-SAMS. 12

3.3 What Spectral Data Does NMR-SAMS Use?. 13

3.4 Use of 2D NMR Connectivities: Bond Constraints. 13

3.5 Use of Chemical Shifts And Peak Multiplicities. 15

3.6 Structure Generation. 15

3.7 User Intervention. 16

3.8 Control Parameters. 17

Working Data Set 18

4.1 Overview.. 18

4.2 Open An Existing Working Data Set 18

4.3 Opening A New Working Data Set 20

4.4 Input Molecular Formula. 21

4.5 Save A Working Data Set