Fast Quantitative 2D NMR for Untargeted and Targeted Metabolomics

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy exhibits a great potential for the quantitative analysis of complex biological samples such as those encountered in metabolomics. To overcome the ubiquitous problem of overlapping peaks in 1D NMR spectra of complex mixtures, acquisition of 2D NMR spectra allows a better separation between overlapped resonances while yielding accurate quantitative data when appropriate analytical protocols are implemented. The experiment duration can be made compatible with high-throughput studies on large sample collections by relying on fast acquisition methods. Here, we describe the general metabolomics workflow to acquire fast quantitative 2D NMR data with a focus on targeted or untargeted analyses.