Acquisition of a 500 MHz NMR Spectrometer and Spectrometer Facility

来自学术研究基础设施计划的这一奖项将帮助内华达大学雷诺分校化学系获得一台500 MHz核磁共振光谱仪，该光谱仪将用于以下领域的研究：人工酶的合成和机械方面；立体化学和手性识别；胆红素的生物有机化学；同芳香性；芳香族化合物的热重排；卡宾、双基和硝烯的制备、表征和反应性；不对称均相催化；信息素生物合成；合成和机械金属有机化学。核磁共振波谱是化学家用来解释分子结构的最有力的工具。它被用来识别未知物质，表征分子内原子的特定排列，并研究溶液中分子之间的相互作用动力学。对于正在进行前沿研究的化学家来说，获得最先进的核磁共振光谱是必不可少的。

This award from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program will help the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nevada at Reno acquire a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer which will be used in research investigations in the following areas: synthetic and mechanistic aspects of artificial enzymes; sterochemistry and chiral recognition; the bioorganic chemistry of bilirubin; homoaromaticity; thermal rearrangements of aromatic compounds; the preparation, characterization and reactivity of carbenes, biradicals, and nitrenes; asymmetric homogeneous catalysis; pheromone biosynthesis; synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry. %%% Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the most powerful tool available to chemists for the elucidation of the structure of molecules. It is used to identify unknown substances, characterize specific arrangements of atoms within molecules, and to study the dynamics of interations between molecules in solution. Access to state-of-the-art NMR spectrometry is essential to chemists who are carrying out frontier research.