Purchase of a Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometer System

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。当与气相色谱(GC)相结合时，所产生的GC/MS为化学家提供了用于化合物分离和表征的最强大的工具之一。气质联用技术的获得对开展化学许多领域的前沿研究具有重要意义。西弗吉尼亚大学化学系将利用化学仪器项目的这一奖项来帮助获得GC/MS系统。这项研究将加强化学研究的领域包括：1)多官能团的硼烷，有机合成中的硅烷和锡烷2)手性碳负离子：通过联萘衍生的有机金属试剂的不对称合成3)材料表征。

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. When combined with gas chromatography (GC), the resulting GC/MS affords the chemist one of the most powerful tools available for the separation and characterization of compounds. The aquisition of GC/MS is essential for the prosecution of frontier research in many fields of chemistry. The Department of Chemistry at the University of West Virginia will use this award from the Chemical Instrumentation Program to help aquire a GC/MS system. The areas of chemical research that will be enhanced by the aquisition include the following: 1) Multifunctional boranes, silanes and stannanes in organic synthesis 2) Chiral carbanions: Asymmetric synthesis via binaphthyl derived organometallic reagents 3) Materials characterization.