This review is concentrated on the NMR appucations to the science and technology of the solid fossil energies.Various solid state NMR techniques such as CP,MAS,DD,DNP,TOSS,CKAMPS,NMRI have been used for the characterization of chemical structure with different parameters in which the aromaticity of carbon and hydrogen is the essential.Recently,new developing techniques of the triple angle MAT and of the spectral editing based on proton multiplicities reveal that more detail structural information may be extracted from the NMR spectra.The topics of NMR application to the solid fossil energies are focused on the natural and artificial thermal evolution mechanism,the oil and gas potential evaluation and the coal property prediction during chemical processing.Sixty-five references have been cited in which twenty-seven are contributed by Chinese authors.

The high resolution solid-state NMR is able to determine the framework Si/Al ratio and to analyze the statistical distribution characters of Si,Al atom in the framework of zeolite samples.Based on characterizations of the chemical shift and quadrupole interaction the various aluminum species presented in zeolites can be identified or classified.The microscopic information is helpful to the understanding of acidity mechanisms and provides important basis for researches of the synthesis and the modification of zeolites.

The application of NMR and NMR microscopy to surface chemistry is reviewed,The study of adsorption,catalysis and oil recovery by NMR and microscopy is mainly discussed.These facts show that the perspective application of this new technique to the above cited research fields is significant.

Applications of solid state NMR in high perfomance ceramics are briefly introduced in this article.These applications include the study of microstructure in ceramic powders,sintered pieces and ceramic fibres and the investigation of grain boundary phases in the sintering ceramic proass.

The history,principle and application of chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (CIDNP) are briefly outlined.

NMR theories,experiments and some problems in study of chemical kineties,relaxations and Nuclcar Overhauser effects and their applications to extract the dynamical parametere are reviewed in which the effect of J coupling on dynamic NMR experiments is discusaed.Some examples of dynamic NMR spectroscopy are given.

This article reviews the recent devefopment of transition metal NMR spectroscopy with the main emphasis on the methodology for the extraction of chemical information.The discussion is divided into two parts.Solid state NMR focuses mainly in the line shape analysis while the solution part concerns with the interpretation of chemical shifts.

Transition metal elements form various structural types of coordination and cluster compounds.Due to their outer d or f orbital and nudear magnetic spin,transition metal moleculare give very rich infoimation in their NMR spectra.Center nietal and ligand element NMR of transition metal molecule are discussed.Magnetic susceptibility of the compound can be measured by NMR method.Information of magnetochemistry and other spectrochemistry enable us to understand the synergism within a transition metal moleculer.

Some important applications of NMR in solution inorganic chemistry are reviewed,which include the indentifications of the negative ions of the alkali metal,the ion pairs and the aggregates in non aqueous solutions,and the hydrolytic products of inorganic ions.

A brief review is given on the activities in radio-spectroscopy in Beijing University,1954-1966.