Purchase of a Mass Spectrometer Data System and a Flow Fast Atom Bombardment Source For Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校的化学系将利用化学研究仪器项目的这份合同来帮助购买质谱仪数据处理系统。此次收购将加强的化学研究领域包括：生化系统的表征，包括法酰化蛋白质和可能与致癌有关的异常酶，富勒烯化学的基础研究，气相离子化学，非线性色谱和动力学监测。质谱法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。质谱仪的购置对于化学许多领域的前沿研究至关重要，现代化的数据处理提高了仪器的控制和设备的效率。

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee--Knoxville will use this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation Program to help purchase a mass spectrometer data handling system. The areas of chemical research that will be enhanced by the acquisition include the following: characterization of biochemical systems, including farnesylated proteins and aberrant enzymes potentially linked with carcinogenesis, fundamental studies of fullerene chemistry, gas-phase ion chemistry, nonlinear chromatography and kinetics monitoring. Mass spectrometry 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. The acquisition of a mass spectrometer is essential for the prosecution of frontier research in many fields in chemistry, and a modern data handling improves the instrument control and the efficiency of the facility.