Abstract: A method based on spectral editing is suggested to simplify the multidimensional nmr experiments. According to this method, a two dimension experiment that there are N resonance lines in F1 domain can be decomposed into N one dimension experiments with relevant evolution times, then these ǫne dimension data should be edited. The editing parameters are calculated from the resonance offsets of the lines in F1 domain and the different evolution times. The edited 1D spectra are 2D slices which contain 2D correlation informations. For demonstration, we have applied this method to simplify 2D inverse C-H correlation and 3D inverse C-H-H correlation experiments. The editing error due to the natural line width in F1 domain has been analyzed by numerical method, and it shows that the error can be ignored when T₂^*>>t₁.

Key words: Multidimensional, NMR, Simplified detection