Facilities
NMR
Remember our old NMR? Yes, it still works. This 60 MHz continuous wave, proton NMR instrument (museum piece) has been maintained by Dr. Dwain Ford and Dr. David Alonso. The manufacturer stopped providing service back in the early 80s.
Our new JEOL instrument is a multinuclear, 400 MHz FT-NMR. The magnet is actively shielded and is equipped with an 8 place autosampler and autotune unit. The NMR was installed during the 2001 fall semester.
It was used in the General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry laboratories, as well as for undergraduate research. This past summer Dr. Alonso, James Fox, Marco Allard and William Hardesty conducted research with Dr. Marya Lieberman at the University of Notre Dame. They synthesized and purified their phthalocyanines and phthalocyanine precursors at Notre Dame, but would come to Andrews to acquire 1H, 13C, 11B and 2D NMR spectra. In the short summer months, they ran over 300 samples!
