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.