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Thus, identification of all pairwise, interproton relaxation-contribution terms, py (in s ), for a molecule by factorization from the experimentally measured / , values can provide a unique method for calculating interproton distances, which are readily related to molecular structure and conformation. When the concept of pairwise additivity of the relaxation contributions seems to break down, as with a complex molecule having many interconnecting, relaxation pathways, there are reliable separation techniques, such as deuterium substitution in key positions, and a combination of nonselective and selective relaxation-rates, that may be used to distinguish between pairwise, dipolar interactions. Moreover, with the development of the Fourier-transform technique, and the availability of highly sophisticated, n.m.r. spectrometers, it has become possible to measure, routinely, nonselective and selective relaxation-rates of any resonance that can be clearly resolved in a n.m.r. spectrum. 

The m/z values of peptide ions are mathematically derived from the sine wave profile by the performance of a fast Fourier transform operation. Thus, the detection of ions by FTICR is distinct from results from other MS approaches because the peptide ions are detected by their oscillation near the detection plate rather than by collision with a detector. Consequently, masses are resolved only by cyclotron frequency and not in space (sector instruments) or time (TOF analyzers). The magnetic field strength measured in Tesla correlates with the performance properties of FTICR. The instruments are very powerful and provide exquisitely high mass accuracy, mass resolution, and sensitivity—desirable properties in the analysis of complex protein mixtures. FTICR instruments are especially compatible with ESI29 but may also be used with MALDI as an ionization source.30 FTICR requires sophisticated expertise. Nevertheless, this technique is increasingly employed successfully in proteomics studies. 

Invention of Fourier transform instruments and consequent development of 13C-NMR techniques have supplied the chemist with excellent tools in characterizing complex molecules and making fine stereochemical distinctions. During the last two decades following the fundamental work of Wenkert (130, 228, 308), substantial amounts of l3C-NMR data of corynantheine and yohimbine alkaloids have been published. Some numerical values of interest are cited in Tables VIII, IX, X, and XI. 

A well known result states that the values of the discrete Fourier transform of a stationary random process are normally distributed complex variables when the length of the Fourier transform is large enough (compared to the decay rate of the noise correlation function) [Brillinger, 1981], This asymptotic normal behavior leads to a Rayleigh distributed magnitude and a uniformly distributed phase (see [McAulay and Malpass, 1980, Ephraim andMalah, 1984] and [Papoulis, 1991]). 

For given to value the apparent charge density cr(r, to) is available in terms of the extended PCM procedure with a complex-valued dielectric function s, namely, e(w) = s1((o) + is2((o) where e w) = 1 +4ttXi(oj) and s2(oj) = 4ttx2(m) with complex-valued susceptibilities defined in Equation (1.127). The complication that both a(r, to) and 0(r, to) become complex is inevitable. However, after applying the inverse Fourier transform, they become real in the time domain. This is warranted by the symmetry properties,... 

In the simulation, the value of the F(t) function is calculated at discrete points in a finite time interval then discrete complex Fourier transform is performed on this array to obtain the simulated spectrum.101... 

The raw data or FID is a series of intensity values collected as a function of time time-domain data. A single proton signal, for example, would give a simple sine wave in time with a particular frequency corresponding to the chemical shift of that proton. This signal dies out gradually as the protons recover from the pulse and relax. To convert this time-domain data into a spectrum, we perform a mathematical calculation called the Fourier transform (FT), which essentially looks at the sine wave and analyzes it to determine the frequency. This frequency then appears as a peak in the spectrum, which is a plot in frequency domain of the same data (Fig. 3.27). If there are many different types of protons with different chemical shifts, the FID will be a complex sum of a number of decaying sine waves with different frequencies and amplitudes. The FT extracts the information about each of the frequencies ... 

The actual Fourier transform is a digital calculation, so not all frequencies are tested. In fact, the number of frequencies tested is exactly equal to the number of time values sampled in the FID. If we start with 16,384 complex data points in our FID (16,384 real data points and 16,384 imaginary data points), we will end up with 16,384 data points in the real spectrum (the imaginary spectrum is discarded). Another difference from the above description is that the actual Fourier transform algorithm used by computers is much more efficient than the tedious process of multiplying test functions, one by one, and calculating the area under the curve of the product function. This fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm makes the whole process vastly more efficient and in fact makes Fourier transform NMR possible. 

In both scientific computation and digital signal processing, one must use the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), which is applied to a discrete complex valued series instead of continuous domains. The forward DFT is defined as... 

However, from the point of view of linear response theory, the definitions (174) or (178) suffer from several drawbacks. Actually, the function X ( , tw) as defined by Eq. (174) is not the Fourier transform of the function X (, x), but a partial Fourier transform computed in the restricted time interval 0 < x < tw. As a consequence, it does not possess the same analyticity properties as the generalized susceptibility x( ) defined by Eq. (179). While the latter, extended to complex values of co, is analytic in the upper complex half-plane (Smoo > 0), the function Xi ( - tw) is analytic in the whole complex plane. As a very simple example, consider the exponentially decreasing response function... 

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