Acquisition of a Circular Dichroism Spectrometer

将购买具有远紫外能力的圆二色光谱仪，作为生物化学、有机化学和无机化学研究的共享仪器。该光谱仪将位于马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校的化学和生物化学系，并将由6个主要用户和3个次要用户共享。在主要用户中，五个将在UMBC，一个将在马里兰大学医学院生物化学系。拟议的仪器将主要服务于UMBC校园的需求，该校园现在没有适合大多数研究的仪器。研究方向为多肽与蛋白质化学、复合碳水化合物生物化学、合成核苷酸、核酸化学和金属蛋白化学。

A circular dichroism spectrometer having far-ultraviolet capabilities will be purchased as a shared instrument for research in biochemistry, organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. The spectrometer will be located in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus and will be shared among six major users, and three minor users. Of the major users, five will be at UMBC and one will be at the University of Maryland Medical School Department of Biological Chemistry. The proposed instrument will serve primarily the needs of the UMBC campus which does not now have a suitable instrument for most of this research. The research projects will be in peptide and protein chemistry, biochemistry of complex carbohydrates, synthetic nucleotides, nucleic acid chemistry and in metaloprotein chemistry.