A broad-band proton-decoupled proton NMR spectrum, in
which all of the proton multiplets collapse to sharp singlets, has
been pursued since the early days of NMR. Two-dimensional
(2D) methods, like a skew 45
projection of an absolute-value
(AV) J-spectrum1 or a constant-time (CT) experiment2,3
projection is
unimpressive, and the 2D spectrum is of only marginal help for
assignment. Heavy digital filtering by a "pseudo-echo"5 improves
AV line shapes but introduces intensity distortions and sensitivity
loss. Frequency-domain fitting routines6 require a high-resolution
data matrix of lines with similar widths and do not necessarily
converge.