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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Nucl Magn Reson Spectrosc. 2020 Dec 2;122:23–41. doi: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2020.11.001

Table 1.

Properties of NMR-active nuclei frequently utilized in NMR-based metabolic investigations: Sensitivity is given normalized to that of 1H.

Nucleus Natural abundance (%) Spin (I) Relative Sensitivity
1H 99.99 ½ 1.0000
2H 0.01 1 0.0035
13C 1.11 ½ 0.0159
15N 0.36 ½ 0.0010
31P 100 ½ 0.0665