Purchase of a Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometer System

质谱（MS）是一种用于探测内部结构细节和获得大量有机、生物有机和有机金属分子的分子组成的技术。当与气相色谱（GC）相结合时，所得到的GC/MS为化学家提供了分离和表征化合物的最强大工具之一。气相色谱/质谱分析是化学领域前沿研究的重要手段。西弗吉尼亚大学化学系将利用化学仪器项目的这一资助来帮助获得GC/MS系统。此次收购将加强化学研究的领域包括：1)有机合成中的多功能硼烷、硅烷和锡烷；2)手性碳离子；二萘基衍生有机金属试剂的不对称合成

Mass spectrometry (MS) is a technique used to probe intimate structural details and to obtain the molecular compositions of a vast array of organic, bioorganic and organometallic molecules. When combined with gas chromatography (GC), the resulting GC/MS affords the chemist one of the most powerful tools available for the separation and characterization of compounds. The aquisition of GC/MS is essential for the prosecution of frontier research in many fields of chemistry. The Department of Chemistry at the University of West Virginia will use this award from the Chemical Instrumentation Program to help aquire a GC/MS system. The areas of chemical research that will be enhanced by the aquisition include the following: 1) Multifunctional boranes, silanes and stannanes in organic synthesis 2) Chiral carbanions: Asymmetric synthesis via binaphthyl derived organometallic reagents 3) Materials characterization.