The NMR facility is getting major updates from Bruker Biospin in spring 2012.

Avance-400 with SmartProbe and SampleJet
— 1H, 13C, 19F, 31P with high-volume sample changing

replaces Athena-300 mid-March

Avance-500 with DCH cryoprobe and SampleXpress
— state-of-the-art 13C sensitivity with flexible sample automation

replaces Unity-500, which will go down late Jan (installation finishing late March)

Avance-500 with Prodigy, SmartProbe, and F/H/C probes plus SampleCase
— state-of-the-art multinuclear, variable temperature, and 19F capabilities

replaces Inova-500 late March or April

Bruker's SmartProbe at 400 MHz will provide high sample throughput for walkup use, and full automation during overnights. At 500 MHz, a 2nd probe will provide extended temperatures of -150 to +150C.

Bruker's DCH cryoprobe is state-of-the-art in 13C sensitivity. Detection of this nucleus will be > 100 times faster compared to our current instrumentation. Bruker is extending the accessible temperature range to cover -40 to +80 C.

Bruker's Prodigy cryoprobe will provide state-of-the-art multinuclear sensitivity. A broad range of nuclei will be acquired from 4 to 10x faster than current capabilities allow. The probe with be equipped for full automation, but will be available outside those restrictions as needed.

The SampleJet robot will provide high sample throughput capabilities on our new 400. Almost 100 samples can be loaded individually in an outer ring, or into five trays holding 96 samples each. The latter will be particularly useful in support of our undergraduate chemistry laboratories.

The SampleXpress robot will provide high sample throughput on our new 500 equipped with the DCH cryoprobe. A wide variety of tube types can be used including J Young and sealed tubes, enabling full automation to be carried out over a broad range of chemical research.

The SampleCase robot will provide sample automation on our Prodigy-equipped 500, providing the highest level of automation available for variable temperature experiments -- useful for mechanistic and kinetic studies -- as well as 19F and multinuclear experiments.

      
 

 || top

Copyright © 1996-2011
All Rights Reserved. Last updated Dec 13, 2011.