Purchase of a GC-TOF Instrument for Cyberinfrastructure at UC Riverside

在化学研究仪器和设施-多用户仪器（CRIF-MU）计划的支持下，加州大学滨江化学系将购买一台气相色谱四极杆飞行时间质谱仪。这一设备将加强若干领域的研究，包括：1）高活性分子（卡宾、双自由基）的表征; 2）开发新的碳纳米管基场电离发射器; 3）设计新的多相催化剂; 4）拟南芥的代谢组学研究; 5）分子活塞的合成;以及6）气相离子化学和新型分子系统。质谱（MS）是一种用于探测紧密结构细节并获得大量有机、生物有机和有机金属分子的分子组成的技术。 它是发展最快、使用最广泛的分析仪器技术之一。因此，本科生和研究生接触这项技术是很重要的。 根据加州滨江大学的人口统计数据和少数族裔学生通过奥尔康州立大学和贝克斯菲尔德加州州立大学的网络链接的参与情况，大量代表性不足的少数族裔学生将使用这一工具。来自Point Loma Nazarene大学的本科生也将通过网络支持远程使用该仪器。

With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities - Multiuser Instrumentation (CRIF-MU) Program, the Department of Chemistry at the University of California Riverside will purchase a gas chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer. This equipment will enhance research in a number of areas including 1) characterization of highly reactive molecules: carbenes, diradicals); 2) development of new carbon nanotube-based field ionization emitters; 3) design of new heterogeneous catalysts; 4) metabonomic studies of arabidopsis thaliana; 5) synthesis of molecular pistons; and 6) gas phase ion chemistry and novel molecular systems. Mass spectrometry (MS) is a technique used to probe intimate structural details and to obtain the molecular compositions of a vast array of organic, bioorganic, and organometallic molecules. It is one of the fastest growing and most widely used analytical instrumentation techniques. Because of this, it is important for undergraduate and graduate students to be exposed to the technique. This instrument will be accessed by a large number of underrepresented minority students in accordance with the demographics of the University of California Riverside and minority student participation via cyber-links from Alcorn State University and California State University Bakersfield. Undergraduate students from Point Loma Nazarene University, a primarily undergraduate institution, will also use the instrument remotely via cyber-enablement.