High-Field
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory

The department's NMR facility is second to none among primarily undergraduate institutions. In 1988, Furman was among the first undergraduate institutions to acquire a high-field, superconducting NMR with the purchase of a Varian VXR-300S. Our facility was further improved in 1996 with the purchase of a Varian Inova 500, making Furman the first primarily undergradate institution to acquire a 500 MHz high-field NMR for undergraduate use. With a total of three NMR spectrometers available for student use, the department's magnetic resonance facilities are unrivalled among other undergraduate institutions.

Furman Chemistry Students are allowed to use NMR following certification in the CHM 23 - Techniques of Chemistry course. Students needing access before that time must be accompanied by a certified user, or pass the certification test in the presence of a facility manager. Requests for use by external academic and non-academic institutions are facilitated through Dr. Sandy Wheeler.

NOTICE TO ALL USERS:

In preparation for our move to the new Townes Science Center, several new changes will be occuring in the NMR Facility. Please be aware of these outages in guiding your research plans.

• The VXR-300S will be quenched the week of August 20, 2007, and laid to a well-deserved rest after 20 years of service to the department.
  
  
• The INOVA 500 will be deenergized on August 27, 2007, warmed to room temperature, crated, and moved to our new facility. The seals on the dewar will be replaced, the dewar vacuum reestablished, and the magnet reenergized sometime in September.
  
  
• An order has been placed for a new Varian 400MR NMR for departmental use. The new instrument will be equipped with an autosampler, gradient shims, and an a ¹H-¹⁹F/¹⁵N-³¹P PFG automated-tune probe. In addition, the INOVA 500 will be upgraded with a gradient shim unit. These units should be available for use by the end of fall term.
  

NMR Resources

• NMR Safety Information
• Experiment Instructions

Spectrometer Information

Varian Inova 500 MHz
	Purchased 1996 Currently tuned for 1H and 13C NMR Oxford Instruments 500 MHz (11.74 T) Superconducting Magnet Vibration Isolation Kit 23 Channel Varian Shims 2 RF Channels Equipped with Variable Temperature Unit for experiments from -150°C - +200°C Varian 5mm Indirect-NMR Probe 1H{15N - 31P} Sun Ultra 10 Host Station running Solaris 9, VNMR 6.1C
Varian VXR-300S
	Brought to field in 1988 Currently tuned for 1H and 31P NMR Varian XL-300 300MHz (7.05 T) Superconducting Magnet 14 Channel Varian Shims 2 RF Channels Equipped with Variable Temperature Unit Varian 5mm and 10mm Broadband Probes Sun Ultra 10 Host Station running Solaris 8, VNMR 6.1C