CMA Homepage  Information for users  Reservations  Mass Spectrometry  LCs for LC/MS  NMR  Photon Spectroscopy Current Rates  Sample Drop-off  Useful Links  Mark E. Bier Director, CMA mbier@andrew.cmu.edu  412-268-3540 (office)  412-268-6897 (fax)  Roberto R. Gil Director, NMR Facilities rgil@andrew.cmu.edu 412-268-4313(office) Carnegie Mellon University  Department of Chemistry  Mellon Institute Bldg. 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2683	*Publications using the NMR instruments should acknowledge the Center for Molecular Analysis and the instrument grant used: NSF grant number CHE-0130903 and CHE-1039870 for the NMR Instrumentation NMR Facility The NMR facility is located in Room 302 of the Mellon Institute. We have two Bruker NMR spectrometers: the 300 and 500 MHz Avance systems. We can perform Multinuclear and Multidimensional NMR Experiments in both Direct and Inverse Detection Mode using Gradient-Assisted Spectroscopy (GRASP). (Funded in part by NSF grant # CHE-9808188 and CHE-1039870) Bruker Avance™ 500 500 MHz (^1H Frequency) NMR Instrument Specifications: Actively Shielded Superconducting Magnet with 5.4 cm bore, operation field at 11.744 Tesla. Bruker Orthogonal Shim System (BOSS ™-3) with 36 low current and low heat dissipation gradient shims    Two RF channels high performance digital NMR console with digital receiver unit (DRU^TM) BVT-3200 Variable Temperature Control Unit with Low Temperature accessory (Nitrogen Evaporator)  and BCU-05, pre-cooling and stabilization accessory, for ultra-precise temperature control from near ambient conditions down to 0^oC sample temperature Equipped with Z-only Gradient Assisted Spectroscopy (GRASP ™ II) accessory for the generation of gradients with up to 50 Gauss/cm   SampleXpress automatic sample changer, microprocessor controlled with a maximum capacity of 60 samples. Multinuclear Inverse Broadband (BBI) probe (5mm sample diameter), ^1H observe with broadband decoupling coil tunable from ^109Ag  to ^31P  with Automatic Tuning and Matching (ATM) capabilities  Multinuclear Broadband Fluorine Observe (BBFO PLUS) probe (5 mm sample diameter) with digital tuning covering the range from ^15N to ^31P as well as ^19F with ^1H decoupling. Automatic Tuning and Matching (ATM) capabilities Multinuclear broadband observe (BBO) probe (10 mm sample diameter) with digital tuning covering the range from ^109Ag to ^31P with ^1H decoupling. Automatic Tuning and Matching (ATM) capabilities 1 mm TXI (1H, 13C, 15N) microprobe with Atomatic Tuning and Matching (ATM) capabilities. Windows XP Workstation: Bruker NMR Suite Software package for acquisition and processing multinuclear and multidimensional NMR data. The suite includes: TopSpin 3.0, TOPSPINPLOT, ICON-NMR, NMR-CHECK, and NMR-SIM Bruker Avance™ 300 300 MHz (^1H Frequency) NMR Instrument Specifications: Superconducting Magnet with 5.4 cm bore, operation field at 7.049 Tesla. Bruker Orthogonal Shim System (BOSS ™-1) with 20 shim gradients   Two RF Channels   Equipped with Z-only Gradient Assisted Spectroscopy (GRASP ™ II) accessory for the generation of gradients with up to 50 Gauss/cm   Variable Temperature Control Unit with Low Temperature accessory (Nitrogen Evaporator)   Multinuclear Broadband Flourine Observe (BBFO) probe (5mm sample diameter) to directly observe nuclei covering the range from ^15N to ^31P, as well as ^19F with ^1H decoupling. Automatic Tuning and Matching (ATM) capabilities   Windows XP Workstation: Bruker NMR Suite Software package for acquisition and processing multinuclear and multidimensional NMR data. The suite includes: TopSpin 2.1, TOPSPINPLOT, ICON-NMR, NMR-CHECK, and NMR-SIM Capabilities: Our Facility is capable of performing a wide variety of NMR experiment. Some of the most common experiments are listed below by category. Routine NMR Spectroscopy Standard ^1H, ^13C, ^31P, ^19F, ^15N, ^29Si NMR experiments Decoupling Techniques Homonuclear Decoupling 1D Nuclear Overhauser Difference Spectroscopy Dynamic NMR Spectroscopy High and Low Temperature Experiments Saturation Transfer Experiments EXSY (EXchange SpectroscopY) 1D Multipulse Sequences Measurement of the Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time T1 Measurement of the Spin-Spin Relaxation Time T2 ^13C NMR APT (Attached Proton Test) ^13C DEPT- 45, 90 and135 Water Suppression by Presaturation Water Suppression by the Jump and Return Method Multinuclear Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy 2D Homonuclear Correlation Experiments: COSY-Experiment and its variants, NOESY, ROESY, TOCSY. 2D Heteronuclear Correlation Experiments: HETCOR, COLOC, HMQC, HSQC, HSQC-DEPT, HMBC. NMR Spectroscopy with Pulsed Field Gradients Measurement of Diffusion Constant using the Pulsed Gradient Spin-Echo Experiment WATERGATE (water suppression experiment) Water Suppression by Excitation Sculpting Plus all the Gradient-Selected Multidimensional Experiments like gs-COSY, gs-TOCSY, gs-NOESY, gs-HSQC, gs-HMBC, etc.  For training, please contact Roberto Gil (rgil@andrew.cmu.edu), MI Room 302, telephone: x8-4313