NMR Facilities for the School of Chemistry of the University of Manchester

核磁共振（NMR）是我们识别新化学物质的主要方法，是现代化学的重要工具。提供新的核磁共振设备将支持现代化学在不同领域的前沿研究，如：核磁共振技术的发展（莫里斯）；合成有机化学（Thomas, Clayden, Sutherland, Dixon, Procter）；合成无机化学（Winpenny, Collison, Heath, McInnes, Faulkner, Coe）；有机材料（Turner, Yeates, Skabara）；介孔材料（安德森）。目标包括制造尽可能小的磁体——许多电子平行排列的单个分子——用于存储和处理信息；用于分析混合物、检测中风患者脑损伤和研究生物分子的新核磁共振方法；新的合成有机化学设计给我们，在许多其他的东西中，改进抗生素和其他药物；研究生命的分子起源，以及酶加速化学反应的方式；设计和制造新型多孔无机燃料电池材料和环保催化剂；制造能被光改变性质的分子，以制造更高效的燃料电池；并测量固体中的核磁共振光谱，以了解固体催化剂，气体传感器和用于清洁废水和核废水的系统中的活性位点。

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is our main way of identifying new chemical substances, and is an essential tool for modern chemistry. Provision of new NMR equipment will support research at the forefront of modern chemistry in diverse areas such as: development of NMR techniques (Morris); synthetic organic chemistry (Thomas, Clayden, Sutherland, Dixon, Procter); synthetic inorganic chemistry (Winpenny, Collison, Heath, McInnes, Faulkner, Coe); organic materials (Turner, Yeates, Skabara); mesoporous materials (Anderson). Goals include making the smallest possible magnets - individual molecules in which many electrons line up in parallel - for storage and processing of information; new NMR methods for analysing mixtures, for detecting brain damage in stroke patients, and for studying biomolecules; new synthetic organic chemistry designed to give us, amongst many other things, improved antibiotics and other drugs; studies of the molecular origin of life, and of the ways in which enzymes speed chemical reactions; designing and making new porous inorganic materials for fuel cells and environmentally-friendly catalysts; making molecules whose properties are changed by light, to make more efficient fuel cells; and measuring NMR spectra in solids to learn about the active sites in solid catalysts, gas sensors, and systems for cleaning waste water and nuclear effluent.