Polarization transfer via selective population transfer (SPT), for example, from protons to 13C (1, 2), 15N (3), and 29Si (4), was introduced several years ago as a method for enhancing sensitivity of less-receptive nuclei (5) and for assignment and relative sign determination of coupling constants (1, 6). A selective a pulse is applied to the satellites in the ‘H spectrum produced by coupling to the nucleus to be observed, followed by a nonselective “read” pulse. The advantages of this J-polarization transfer technique over conventional methods are well known and make it particularly useful for nuclei with negative magnetogyric ratios and/or long relaxation times such as “N (3) and 29Si (4). The major drawbacks of the SPT method are that (i) it requires a detailed knowledge of the ‘H NMR spectrum and (ii) generally only a single spin can be enhanced at a time. More recently these problems have been overcome with the INEPT (7) and DEPT (8) pulse sequences which may be used to obtain enhanced proton coupled (7, 8) as well as decoupled (9) spectra with multiplicity selection (8, 10). However, these experiments are more demanding on the spectrometer hardware (980” phase shifting of the proton decoupler channel is required) than is the simple r-pulse SPT experiment, thus precluding the INEPT and DEPT pulse sequences from being performed on older spectrometers (II). We report here an alternative method for polarization transfer experiments which does not involve the hardware requirement of a 90” phase shifter for the proton irradiation channel and thus may be carried out on any FT NMR spectrometer equipped for gated proton irradiation. The pulse sequence for this experiment, e.g., for polarization transfer from ‘H (I) spins to 13C (S) spins, can be written