Acquisition of a FT-NMR for an Undergraduate Chemistry Department

通过这个项目，化学系为学生提供了一台傅里叶变换核磁共振仪，以扩充和改造生物化学、无机、有机和综合实验室。新生钴络合物合成实验室包括FT-NMR的使用。应用包括使用多核光谱（C-13, P-31， N-15和H-1），变温度（动力学和热力学测量），质子解耦（杂环化合物）和二维核磁共振（有机和无机以及生物化学学生研究项目）。四名全职教师和两名兼职教师都具有上述一种或多种能力的经验，并在实验室和指导研究中为学生提供实际使用。获得这些仪器的净效果是增强了实验室的经验，并使教师有机会通过新的实验室实验和技术得到更新，作为一个整体，从而在教师之间建立新的联系，加强相互支持和课程规划。该机构为该项目提供的资金与美国国家科学基金会的资金相等。

Through this project, the chemistry department provided its students with an FT-NMR to augment and revamp the laboratories in biochemistry, inorganic, organic, and Integrated Laboratory. A cobalt-complex-synthesis laboratory for freshmen includes use of the FT-NMR. Applications include the use of multinuclear spectra (C-13, P-31, and N-15 and H-1), variable temperature (kinetics and thermodynamics measurements), proton decoupling (heterocyclic compounds) and two-dimensional NMR (organic and inorganic as well as student research project in biochemistry). The four full-time and two part-time faculty had all had experience with one or more of the capabilities mentioned and provided hands-on usage for their students in laboratory and directed research. The net effect of the acquisition of the instrumentation has been an enhanced laboratory experience and an opportunity for faculty to be renewed through new laboratory experiments and techniques, as a whole group, thus forging new links among the faculty and strengthening mutual support and curricular planning. The institution contributed to the project in an amount equal to the NSF funds.