Acquisition of a Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer

9802930 Shea该奖项为购买基质辅助激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱仪（MALDI-TOF-MS）提供部分支持。 这种仪器是必不可少的许多材料研究计划正在进行的加州大学欧文分校，其中包括在聚合物科学，材料和合成化学，蛋白质工程和疾病的研究计划。 UCI没有MALDI-TOF-MS。 化学系在这个校园迅速扩大其教师产生更多类型的样品以及增加样品数量。 该设施中的两个磁区系统完全致力于为有机合成提供高分辨率数据。 该仪器将在多用户环境中使用。 其中MALDI-TOF-MS是必不可少的项目包括：多同系化形成混合的亲水/疏水性聚合物和有机硅单体的合成;不完全缩合的倍半硅氧烷笼的研究及其在表面反应性模型，混合无机/有机聚合物和树枝状聚合物中的应用;光致发光和氧化还原活性树枝状聚合物和多金属化合物的合成，在纳米光子和电子器件中具有潜在的应用;镧系元素化学和镧系元素络合物介导的聚合物形成机制的形成和理解。大约有25名教师、140名研究生和50名博士后可以使用该仪器。%*

9802930SheaThis award provides partial support for the purchase of a matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometer (MALDI-TOF-MS). This instrumentation is essential to many materials research programs being undertaken on the University of California, Irvine campus which include programs in polymer science, material and synthetic chemistry, protein engineering, and disease research. No MALDI-TOF-MS is available at UCI. The chemistry department on this campus has rapidly expanded its faculty generating many more types of sample as well as increasing sample numbers. The two magnetic sector systems now in the facility are fully committed providing high resolution data for organic synthesis. The instrument will be used in a multi-user environment. Projects in which the MALDI-TOF-MS is essential include: polyhomologation to form mixed hydrophilip/hydrophobic polymers and synthesis of organosiliconate monomers; research on incompletely condensed silsesquioxane cages and there use in surface reactivity models, hybrid inorganic/organic polymers and dendrimers; synthesis of photoluminescent and redox-active dendrimers and multimetallic compounds with potential applications in nanoscale photonic and electronic devices; lanthanide chemistry and the formation and understanding of the mechanisms of polymer formation as mediated by lanthanide complexes. Approximately 25 faculty, 140 graduate students, and 50 postdoctorals will have access to this instrument.%%%***