Purchase of a Mass Spectrometer

化学研究仪器计划的这个奖项 将协助大学化学系 匹兹堡在购买高分辨率质量 光谱仪 六名研究依赖于 高分辨率质谱将大大有利于 从购买这台仪器开始。 研究项目以便 （1）该机制包括： 维生素K的作用;（2）维生素K的新合成方法 工业环境，（3）天然有机合成 产品，（4）气相离子化学，（5）分子 识别：用于络合和 （6）分子识别研究。 %%% 高分辨率质谱仪是一种用于 测量分子离子的精确分子量。 这 信息是一种重要的数据， 确定原子组成，有时， 分子的几何形状 这是一个重要的工具， 需要了解新合成的 分子。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh in the purchase of a high resolution Mass Spectrometer. Six faculty members whose research is dependent upon high resolution mass spectroscopy will greatly benefit from the acquisition of this instrument. Research projects to be carried out with this instrument include: (1) The mechanism of action of vitamin K, (2) New synthetic methods for an industrial environment, (3) Total organic synthesis of natural products, (4) Gas phase ion chemistry, (5) Molecular recognition: Novel artifical receptors for complexation and catalysis and (6) Research on Molecular recognition. %%% A high resolution mass spectrometer is an instrument used to measure the precise molecular weight of a molecular ion. This information is an important piece of data used to help determine the atomic composition and, sometimes, the molecular geometry of a molecule. It is one of the essential tools needed to learn the detailed structure of newly synthesized molecules.