Purchase of Mass Spectrometric Instrumentation

在化学研究仪器和设施(CRIF)计划的这一奖项下，洛杉矶加州大学化学系将获得一台气相色谱仪-飞行时间质谱仪。该设备将加强一些领域的研究，包括a)新的合成方法的开发和具有生物意义的天然产物的全合成；b)单重态氧化学的研究；c)超分子和大分子化学；d)泛醌生物化学；e)导电聚合物；f)生物活性氧化脂和这些磷脂的脂第二信使的结构表征。质谱仪(MS)是一种用于探测大量有机、生物有机和有机金属分子的内部结构细节和获得其分子组成的技术。这些研究的结果将对包括生物化学和材料科学在内的许多领域产生影响。

With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF) Program, the Department of Chemistry at the University of California in Los Angeles will acquire a Gas Chromatograph-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including a) development of new synthetic methods and total synthesis of biologically interesting natural products; b) studies on singlet oxygen chemistry; c) supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry; d) ubiquinone biochemistry; e) conducting polymers; and f) structural characterization of bioactive oxidized lipids and lipid second messengers of these phospholipids. 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. The results from these studies will have an impact in a number of areas including biochemistry and materials science.