Shared Mass Spectrometric, Computer, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Equipment

现代化学家依靠许多仪器来表征分子，处理和解释大量数据。质谱学和核磁共振波谱是前者的关键，而现代计算机是后者的关键。最先进的MS、核磁共振和计算机仪器对于化学前沿研究的开展是不可或缺的。哥伦比亚大学化学系将利用化学共享仪器计划授予的这一多仪器奖，帮助获得质谱仪、计算机设备和部件，以改进系级核磁共振光谱仪。这些收购将加强的化学研究领域包括：1)量子溶剂化和动力学2)与酶过程相关的化学模型系统3)新型抗芳香族化合物及其固相性质4)多茂金属化合物的合成5)生物活性化合物的结构生物有机研究6)天然和非天然离子载体的合成7)星暴聚合物的结构和动力学。

The modern chemist relies on a number of instruments to characterize molecules and to handle and interpret vast quantities of data. Mass Spectrometry (MS) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are crucial to the former and modern computers are essential to the latter. State-of-the art MS, NMR and computer instrumentation is indespensible for the execution of frontier research in chemistry. The Department of Chemistry at Columbia University will use this multi-instrument award from the Chemistry Shared Instrumentation Program to help acquire a Mass Spectrometer, computer equipment, and components to improve departmental NMR spectrometers. Included among the areas of chemical research that will be enhanced by these acquisitions are the following: 1) Quantum solvation and dynamics 2) Chemical model systems relevant to enzymatic processes 3) Novel antiaromatic compounds and their solid state properties 4) Synthesis of polymeric metallocenes 5) Structural bioorganic studies of bioactive compounds 6) Synthesis of natural and unnatural ionophores 7) Structure and dynamics of starburst polymers.