Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry in the Chemistry Curriculum

化学系确定了改进实验室的指导方针，包括以下需求：纳入使用更小和更复杂的样品的工作，强调真实世界的化学，使用最先进的仪器，提高实验室效率，以便进行更多的实验工作，并增加对化学健康和安全的了解。收购200 MHz的FT-NMR光谱仪与可变温度模块将增强所有，但在我们的五个高年级课程的最后一个原则。具体改进包括增强的质子分析，新的13C分析能力，计算机控制的数据采集和处理，FT-NMR分析在小样本中的应用，动力学和热力学参数的确定，以及用于简化复杂光谱的特殊脉冲序列。此外，该仪器将增加本科生研究项目的范围。

The Chemistry Department has identified laboratory improvement guidelines including the needs: to incorporate work using smaller and more complex samples, to emphasize real world chemistry, to use state-of-the-art instrumentation, to increase laboratory efficiency so that more experimental work can be done, and to increase the understanding of chemical health and safety. Acquisition of a 200 MHz FT-NMR Spectrometer with a variable temperature module will enhance all but the last of those principles in five of our upper division courses. Specific improvements include enhanced proton analysis, a new capability for 13C analysis, the computer controlled acquisition and processing of data, application of FT-NMR analysis to small samples, determination of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters, and special pulse sequences for simplification of complex spectra. In addition, the instrument will increase the range of projects available to undergraduates doing research.