A Versatile Broadband Attached Proton Test Experiment for Routine 13 C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

The proposed broadband attached proton test sequence allows the user to easily record 13 C nuclear magnetic resonance multiplicity-edited and quaternary-carbon-only spectra. Compared to earlier attached proton test experiments, it preserves both a tolerance for wide ranges of one-bond-coupling constant values and the effective suppression of residual CHn signals in the quaternary-carbon-only spectra. The recording of edited spectra or quaternary-carbon-only spectra is made easy by a single, user-controllable constant. These attributes make the broadband attached proton test experiment attractive for the 13 C analysis of small molecules, including spectral editing, particularly in high-throughput analysis laboratories.