Abstract
Firing up the NMR Back in 1984, when Rich Haack first laid eyes on a high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, he had a vision for the instrument that went beyond analyzing chemical compounds. “I thought if you could hollow it out, it would make a neat smoker, outdoor oven, or fire pit,” he tells Newscripts. Would that make it an NMR-B-Q ? Haack, a chemist who works in industry, never gave up on the idea. He just thought he would never get his hands on an NMR to hack. That all changed two years ago when he had the opportunity to acquire a defunct 400-MHz instrument from Open Technologies, a company that buys, sells, and services NMRs. Don Frank, the company’s chief executive officer, says the instrument was going to be scrapped. He knew of Haack’s plans, so he drove the old NMR from Open Technologies’ warehouse in Indiana to
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