Connecting the Practice of Modern Qualitative and Quantitative NMR Analysis with Its Theoretical Foundation.

This Perspective seeks to reconnect the current practice of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in chemical structure and quantitative (qNMR) analysis with its roots in classical physics and quantum mechanics (QM). Rationales for this approach are derived from various angles, including focused reviews of the key parameters of the nuclear resonance phenomenon, the structural information richness of NMR spectra, and significant progress in both computational and spectrometer hardware. This provides collective reasoning for the reintegration of computational quantum mechanical spectral analysis (QMSA) into the contemporary practice of NMR spectral interpretation.