Upgrade of an 11.74 Tesla NMR Instrument

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This award from the Chemical Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF) Program and the Academic Research and Infrastructure (ARI) Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin Madison upgrade the existing 11.74 Tesla NMR. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including the following: (1) mechanistic transition metal organometallic chemistry (2) synthesis and mechanistic studis of boron hydride clusters (3) folding patterns in peptides and proteins, and (4) organosilicon chemistry. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the most powerful tool available to chemists for the elucidation of the structure of molecules. It is used to identify unknown substances, characterize specific arrangements of atoms within molecules, and to study the dynamics of interactions between molecules in solution. Access to state-of-the-art NMR spectrometry is essential to chemists who are carrying out frontier research. The results from these NMR studies are useful in the areas such as polymers, catalysis, and in biology.