Improving Undergraduate Instruction and Research with Multinuclear Fourier Transform NMR

该项目正在安排购买一台300-MHz多核核磁共振(核磁共振)光谱仪。该仪器用于升级有机化学、分析化学、生物化学和光谱学的教育项目。学生可以进行特定的实验和活动，以增加他们在这些领域的知识，并让他们体验现代核磁共振技术。这一工具也被大量用于我们强大的本科生研究计划。五名教员的需求需要更高场的多核核磁共振，而目前的仪器无法满足这一需求，因此他们被迫将样本发送给前同事和现任合作者。这减缓了学生和教职员工的研究步伐，也不能让本科生同事获得经验，了解他们将在工业或研究生院使用的仪器类型。这种仪器的教育成果之一可能是开发出新的实验，这些实验将发表在《化学教育杂志》等期刊上，并在美国化学学会和密苏里州科学院的专业会议上发表。如果需要，这种乐器还可以向高中生和教师演示，并在高级项目中提供给他们。

This project is arranging the purchase of a 300-MHz multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer. This instrument is being used to upgrade the educational program in organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and spectroscopy. Specific experiments and activities can be performed by the students to increase their knowledge in these fields, as well as to give them experience with modern NMR techniques. This instrument is also being heavily used in our strong undergraduate research program. Five faculty have needs that require a higher-field multinuclear NMR that cannot be met by the current instrument, so instead they are forced to send samples out to former colleagues and current collaborators. This slows down the pace of research for the students and the faculty and does not enable undergraduate student co-workers to gain experience with the type of instrument they will use in industry or in graduate school. One of the educational results of this instrument may be the development of new experiments to be published in journals such as the Journal of Chemical Education and presented at professional meetings of the American Chemical Society and the Missouri Academy of Science. The instrument can also be demonstrated to high school students and teachers and made available to them for advanced projects, if needed.