Friday, November 3, 2023

Fill volume for 1.7mm NMR tubes

The SSPPS NMR Facility routinely uses a 1.7mm micro-cryoprobe that takes capillary NMR tubes with a diameter of 1.7mm instead of the standard 5mm NMR tubes. These capillary tubes require much less sample volume than a standard tube, but exactly how much should be used? And what happens if there is too little? Or too much?