Magritek Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Training Modules

Benchtop NMR – Basics

• Organization
  • Training Period: 2 hours
  • Capacity: 1-2 students 
  • Offered: As needed. 
• Content
  • Lab housekeeping, sample prep, shimming the magnet, acquisition of ¹H and ¹³C spectra, a little data interpretation, analysis of user samples. 

Benchtop NMR – Advanced. Prerequisite: FTIR General

• Organization
  • Training Period: 3 hours
  • Capacity: 1-2 students 
  • Offered: As needed.
• Content
  • Multidimensional and multinuclear experiments.

400 MHz Liquid-State NMR Training Modules

Liquid-State NMR - Basic Training for Occasional Users

• Organization
• Training Period: 1 hour
• Capacity: 2-4 Trainees (Chemistry Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, and Faculty) 
• Offered: Throughout the year, by appointment 
• Training may be conducted by experienced chemistry graduate student, staff, or faculty; Final approval and account setup by Dr. Klaus Woelk or delegate.
• Content
• Learning to run basic, routine, preprogrammed ¹H and ¹³C NMR experiments using the automated sample changer. ¹H measurements include experiments with standard water solvent suppression; ¹³C measurements include ¹H coupled and ¹H decoupled experiments. Scheduling times for access of the instrument through ICON-NMR automation, setting up a user account, appropriate sample preparation and care, and protecting the instrument is covered.

Liquid-State NMR - General Training

• Organization
• Training Period: 2 hours (1 hour, if Basic Training already completed)
• Capacity: 1-2 Trainees (Undergraduate Research Assistants, GTAs of teaching labs with NMR components, Graduate Students, and Faculty)
• Offered: Throughout the year, by appointment 
• Training may be conducted by experienced chemistry graduate student, staff, or faculty. Final approval and account setup by Dr. Klaus Woelk or delegate.
• Content
• Basics Training for Occasional Users is amended by instruction for programming and scheduling nighttime experiment that may last longer than 3 hours; instruction in two-dimensional composite experiments such as COSY, HETCOR, etc. with automated spectral window selection in F2 dimension for optimizing spectral resolution and experiment time demands; instruction in dual-channel hetero nuclei investigations, such as coupled and decoupled ¹⁹F, ³¹P, and ¹⁵N NMR experiments.

Liquid-State NMR - Training for Special Research Needs.  Prerequisite: General Training; in addition, before this training, students will have to show an understanding of the significance and meaningfulness of the desired, specialized NMR data. 

• Organization
• Training Period: Typically 1 hour for each specialized kind of experimentation, maybe longer depending on its complexity.
• Capacity: Throughout the year, by appointment 
• Training must be scheduled with Dr. Klaus Woelk, training may be conducted by delegate 

• Content
• Learning to safely conduct specialized experiments that support the mission or progress of an active research project; instruction of how to optimize scheduling and minimizing interference with scheduled experiments from regular and occasional users.

Bruker 400 MHz Avance III Wide-bore Solid State NMR Training Modules