Especially for compounds where protons of the same spin system tend to fall in a narrow chemical shift range, such as carbohydrates or aliphatic compounds, strong coupling situations are often encountered, even at high magnetic field strengths. Here, we introduce two selective 2DJ experiments that circumvent the strong coupling situation by focusing on the 13 C satellite signals at natural isotope abundance. The first experiment uses the BIRD pulse sequence element 14 to achieve active spin refocusing, and therefore is coined SERFBIRD (SElective ReFocusing using BIRD). The second experiment, named SATASERF ( 13 C SATellite Aided SElective ReFocusing), works in a similar way, but uses a bandselective pulse instead of BIRD. Whereas SERFBIRD is the most sensitive of the two experiments, its use is restricted to observing protons that are part of methine fragments. SATASERF does not have this constraint, though compromises on sensitivity and time-efficiency. Both experiments are thus complementary. The experiments will first be illustrated on the simple case of pyridine, and next on the challenging cases of the tetrasaccharide stachyose and the organic compound norcamphor for which several 1 H-1 H couplings could not be extracted using SERF, G-SERF or PSYCHEDELIC experiments.