High-resolution carbon-13 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

The status of high-resolution carbon-13 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with respect to quantitative organic analysis is discussed. As the techniques for obtaining NMR spectra from solids are somewhat different from those used in liquid-state NMR, the experimental concepts are outlined first. Spectra that illustrate a few of the topics that have been studied in the author's laboratory are then presented. Finally, the problem of quantitativeness (or indeed non-quantitativeness) of such carbon-13 solidstate NMR spectra is examined.