NMR Spectroscopy for 60 Years at the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University

Since its discovery in 1946, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy become as a method to solve structural and dynamic problems in modern chemistry. Currently, it is hard to find a university in the world without various NMR spectrometers in its laboratories. Achievements in this field, over the course of almost 80 years of its development, were recognized with four Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. Fifth-generation high-resolution NMR spectrometers were developed during this period. They are as complex measurement and computing systems, in which the latest advances in electronics, cryogenics, and computing technology are utilized. Scientists from the USSR and Russia made the significant contributions to this remarkably rapid progress. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the first NMR laboratory at the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University that focused to solve complex chemical problems. The history of its creation and several scientific projects to solve not only specific chemical problems but to develop an NMR methodological arsenal are described in this work.