Upgrade of the UW Chemistry Department NMR Facility

这份来自化学研究仪器和设施（CRIF）项目和主要研究仪器（MRI）项目的合同将帮助华盛顿大学化学系购买一台500 MHz核磁共振光谱仪。该设备将加强若干领域的研究，包括过渡金属多氢化物的交换偶联；螺旋/线圈转换，冷诱导螺旋展开；还原性消除反应的能量学和机理识别域折叠的序列决定因素DNA中特定基团的局部角运动动力学；蛋白质结构和动力学的测定；以及受损DNA损伤部位的结构解析。核磁共振（NMR）波谱是化学家用来阐明分子结构的最有力的工具。它用于识别未知物质，表征分子内原子的特定排列，并研究溶液中分子之间相互作用的动力学。获得最先进的核磁共振光谱是必不可少的化学家谁正在进行前沿研究。这些核磁共振研究的结果在聚合物、催化和生物学等领域是有用的。

This award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF) Program and the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program will assist the Department of Chemistry at University of Washington in the purchase of a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including exchange coupling in transition metal polyhydrides; helix/coil transitions, cold-induced helix unfolding; energetics and mechanisms of reductive elimination reactions; sequence determinants of the folding of recognition domains; dynamics of local angular motions of specific groups in DNA; determination of protein structure and dynamics; and structure elucidation for lesion sites in damaged DNA. 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 interactions between molecules in solution. Access to state-of-the-art NMR spectrometry is essential to chemists who are carrying out frontier research. The results from these NMR studies are useful in the areas such as polymers, catalysis, and in biology.