Description of the Facility
Background & Overview
The NMR facility at Hunter was established in 1983 and at present consists of three major instruments, a JEOL GX-400, a Varian Inova 500, and a Bruker Avance 500, equipped with a 13C-1H cryoprobe. These spectrometers are utilized by scientists from Hunter College, as well as from the entire CUNY community. The large variety of available probes allows detection of virtually any NMR-active nuclide. Data analysis is performed either by making use of the spectrometer software or by using our networking capability, and trasferring data to various off-line software packages. The Facility gets extensive use from researchers involved in synthesis and analysis of organic and inorganic compounds, isolation and identification of natural products, and determination of three-dimensional structures of peptides and proteins.
Philosophy
Rather than acting as a service facility, to which researchers submit samples or make requests, the NMR Facility is an integral part of the research experience at Hunter. Almost all experiments are performed on a hands-on basis by undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. Researchers employ the spectrometers to perform a wide range of experiments, from "simple" proton and carbon spectra, to basic two-dimensional experiments, such as COSY and NOESY, to the latest higher dimensional sequences used in structural biology.
