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As soon as I began experimenting with the DOSY toolbox I was surprised to discover an unexpected hole, which is just a novel proof of my old theory on NMR imprinting . If your first spectrometer is a Varian, you will become a certain kind of spectroscopist and a certain kind of programmer. If your first instrument is a Bruker, you will become a different spectroscopist and a different programmer. If a brukerist programmer had written this toolbox, he would have imported the frequency domain spectrum and started from there. Mathias Nilsson is instead a Varianist and he imports the FID only. We talked about it and now he agrees with me on the importance of importing and exporting the data to and from as many programs as possible. For example, I might prefer using an external software for the preliminary processing (FT, phase and baseline correction), then the DOSY toolbox for the separation of components, eventually a third software (or the first one again) for printing, visualizing, cr...

The DOSY toolbox is an open source program written by Dr. Mathias Nilsson that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac and on any other platform covered by MATLAB. I am going to review it next week, while today I am giving a few practical tips that I prefer to leave out of the review, for the sake of readability and tidiness. I know that 14% of my readers have a Mac, and I have verified that the original installation instructions of the toolbox are inaccurate and unclear (for the average Mac user at least), so today I will simply explain how you can install the DOSY toolbox on your Mac. Download the file called DOSYToolbox06_MAC_13May09_pkg from the address: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/mathias.nilsson/software.htm With a double click this archive generates a folder called: "DOSYToolbox06_MAC_13May09_pkg 2". This name is actually too long and useless, therefore I have shortened it into "DOSYToolbox06" and moved the folder inside my home directory. This is not str...