Briefly, the present invention provides an apparatus and a method for
performing a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement on a sample
solution containing small molecules and large molecules such as proteins,
and provides an apparatus and a method for repeatedly performing the NMR
measurement while stably controlling concentration conditions in a sample
and changing a concentration of small molecules.
A sample solution containing small molecules and large molecules is
circularly transferred between a vessel equipped with a nuclear magnetic
resonance probe and a control section in which injection and filtration
of small molecules are performed. By transferring the sample solution
between them, the NMR measurement can be performed while maintaining a
concentration of large molecules to be constant and increasing or
reducing a concentration of small molecules so that a concentration ratio
of the small molecules relative to the large molecules is changed, the
two types of molecules being present in the sample solution.