NMR spectroscopy continues to evolve, with publications in 2009 providing an eclectic collection of applications, advances and incremental improvements. This article covers rapid acquisition methods, DNP, SQUID, new liquid-state methods, “easy” and “difficult” solid-state methods, and computational aspects of NMR spectroscopy. A significant landmark was achieved in 2009, with the commercial release of the 1000 MHz (1 GHz, 23.4 T) NMR magnet. Also, despite the headline grabbing 1 GHz magnet, there remains significant interest in Earth-field (54 μT) NMR. I am indebted to the great and the good whose work has been reported here, all credit is theirs; errors, omissions and blame are all mine.
