MRI: Acquisition of an Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometer for Research and Teaching

纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校(SUNY-Albany)化学系将从重大研究仪器计划获得一台环境高分辨率飞行时间质谱仪。质谱学是化学家和生物科学家用来鉴定和表征物质和化学物种的基本工具。当离子在质谱仪中进行分析时，该仪器可提供质量和碎裂模式的精确测量。环境电离质谱计在环境条件下在质谱计外部形成离子，通常需要很少的样品前处理。这一重要的分析工具将促进各级学生的研究。它还将用于培训本科生的实验室课程工作。该仪器将用于该机构的B.S./M.S.法医化学项目和有机化学应用MS项目，该项目受到在该地区生物技术公司工作的学生的大力支持。该仪器将为纽约州首府地区的教育机构提供服务，包括六所本科学院。它也将是以研究为导向的奥尔巴尼医学院和奥尔巴尼药学和健康科学学院的资源。这项收购将用于各种研究，特别是在以下领域：(A)碗形杂环烯的金属络合研究；(B)能源相关材料的挥发性异金属分子前体的合成和结构研究；(C)植物来源的挥发性有机硫化合物(VOSCs)及其环境命运的追踪；(D)含氟化合物的调查；(E)开发用于诊断和治疗重大疾病的杂交纳米材料的应用；(F)具有生物学意义和进化意义的修饰RNA系统的研究。

The Chemistry Department at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY-Albany) will acquire a ambient high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer with this award from the Major Research Instrumentation program. Mass spectrometry is a basic tool used by chemists and biological scientists to identify and characterize materials and chemical species. The instrument provides an accurate measurement of the mass and fragmentation patterns as the ions are analyzed in the mass spectrometer. An ambient ionization mass spectrometer forms the ions outside the mass spectrometer under ambient conditions and usually requires little sample pretreatment. This important analytical tool will advance the research of students at all levels. It will also be used to train undergraduate students in laboratory course work. The instrument will be used in the institution's B.S./M.S. Forensic Chemistry program, and an applied MS program in Organic Chemistry which is heavily patronized by students working at area biotech companies. The instrument will be available to serve educational institutions in the New York State Capital District including six undergraduate colleges. It will also be a resource for the research-oriented Albany Medical College and Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.This acquisition will be used in a diverse body of research, especially in areas such as (a) investigations of metal complexation of bowl-shaped heterocorannulenes; (b) synthesis and structural investigations of volatile heterometallic molecular precursors to energy-related materials; (c) tracking of plant-derived volatile organosulfur compounds (VOSCs), and their environmental fate; (d) investigations of fluorinated compounds; (e) developing applications of hybrid nanomaterials for diagnosis and treatment of major diseases; (f) studies of modified RNA systems of both biological and evolutionary significance.