Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR

在主要研究仪器(MRI)计划的这一奖项下，位于卡本代尔的南伊利诺伊大学化学系将获得一台400 MHz核磁共振光谱仪。该仪器将支持的研究包括各种激动人心的新材料的合成和表征，包括通过液晶自组装制备的极性薄膜、通过表面引发聚合制备的新型接枝聚合物刷子、含有电荷转移络合物的金属膦酸盐、固态主客体材料、可溶性半导体基团(IV)金属主干聚合物、新型纳米线和烷基硫醇保护的金纳米粒子。核磁共振波谱是化学家用来阐明分子结构的最有力的工具之一。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相互作用的动力学。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仪是必不可少的。这些核磁共振研究的结果将对材料化学和纳米科学产生影响。

With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, the Department of Chemistry at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale will acquire a 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer. The research that this instrument will support includes the synthesis and characterization of a variety of exciting new materials including polar thin films prepared via liquid crystalline self-assembly, new grafted polymer brushes prepared via surface initiated polymerization, metal phosphonates containing charge-transfer complexes, solid-state host-guest materials, soluble semi-conducting group (IV) metal backbone polymers, novel nanowires and alkylthiolate protected gold nanoparticles. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools available to chemists for the elucidation of the structure of molecules. It is used to identify unknown substances, to 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 spectrometers is essential to chemists who are carrying out frontier research. The results from these NMR studies will have an impact in materials chemistry and nanosciences.