Purchase of a GC-TOF Instrument for Cyberinfrastructure at UC Riverside

在化学研究仪器和设施-多用户仪器（CRIF-MU）计划的支持下，加州大学河滨分校化学系将购买一台气相色谱四极杆飞行时间质谱仪。该设备将加强在许多领域的研究，包括1)表征高活性分子：碳烯，二自由基)；2)新型碳纳米管基场电离发射器的研制；3)新型多相催化剂的设计；4)拟南芥代谢组学研究；5)分子活塞的合成；6)气相离子化学和新型分子体系。质谱（MS）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。它是发展最快和应用最广泛的分析仪器技术之一。正因为如此，让本科生和研究生接触到这种技术是很重要的。根据加州大学河滨分校的人口统计数据，以及通过奥尔康州立大学和加州州立大学贝克斯菲尔德分校的网络链接，大量未被充分代表的少数族裔学生将可以访问该工具。来自洛马角拿撒勒大学的本科生也将通过网络远程使用该仪器。

With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities - Multiuser Instrumentation (CRIF-MU) Program, the Department of Chemistry at the University of California Riverside will purchase a gas chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including 1) characterization of highly reactive molecules: carbenes, diradicals); 2) development of new carbon nanotube-based field ionization emitters; 3) design of new heterogeneous catalysts; 4) metabonomic studies of arabidopsis thaliana; 5) synthesis of molecular pistons; and 6) gas phase ion chemistry and novel molecular systems. 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. It is one of the fastest growing and most widely used analytical instrumentation techniques. Because of this, it is important for undergraduate and graduate students to be exposed to the technique. This instrument will be accessed by a large number of underrepresented minority students in accordance with the demographics of the University of California Riverside and minority student participation via cyber-links from Alcorn State University and California State University Bakersfield. Undergraduate students from Point Loma Nazarene University, a primarily undergraduate institution, will also use the instrument remotely via cyber-enablement.