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Prima Cala

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This beach is near to my home (a 5 minutes walk). I come here whenever I need a little of fresh hair. The place is often windy, like today.

Equinox

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Spring

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SDBS beautified

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The Spectral Database for Organic Compounds is very popular and deserves all my praise: is straightforward to use, easy to access, rich of data, void of advertisement and completely free. Everybody has used it at least once, what else should I say? Jaume Farr�s Soler sent me a shell script to import a list of peaks, copied from SDBS, into iNMR. He said that the pictures of SDBS were not clear enough, while in this way he could generate much better ones. The address of this script is now: http://www.inmr.net/library/sdbs2inmr Later on we'll see why it can be useful. Let's start with a more immediate approach. First thing first: if you have a Mac, download the latest version (3.1.4) of iNMR passion (freeware). Now, the next time you find a 1-H spectrum on SDBS, scroll down the page, until you find this button: Clicking the button leads you to a list like:   Hz    ppm   Int. 1367.55 3.422 485 1360.72 3.405 942 1353.88 3.388 515  7...

Evgeny wants you

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Last year he opened the NMR wiki. This month Evgeny Fadeev has started a discussion group . Synthetic description: "All about magnetic resonance, summaries go to NMR Wiki". Evgeny also says: "Send invitations to your friends and ask them to invite their friends. Then we'll make it work!!!". You are in time to become one of the first 100 members.

Making the Headlines

The NMR discovery of the month, according to spectroscopynow , is the whitening method. When this humble blog introduced the method in October, I didn't believe it was SO important. I am still pinching myself.

Split Plot Splats

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ini386

The reader ini386 compared the ease of use of iNMR with that of the Adobe reader. Such a comparison is impossible. Both products and their histories are under the eyes of every one. You should know them! Today I am trying to expose a few facts that are never been secret, they have been just ignored. In other words: nobody really cares about what I am going to write. iNMR has arrived to version 3.1.1, with 3.1.3 ready to appear next week, through an incredible number of changes and upgrades. In the beginning, the process could be explained in two ways: either the preliminary versions were not satisfactory or the users were impossible to satisfy (does it make any difference?). Afterwards the process became a little different. Once you know that it's so easy to release a new version, it's impossible to stop. You are happy with the program not because it's perfect, but because you know that any defect you find can be eliminated. While there is a single author, iNMR is the produ...