UW CHEMISTRY NMR
Announcments & Equipment Logs
November, 2020
UPDATE ! AV300 – SYSTEM IS READY FOR USE
Dear Users The system is ready for use now. The delicate glassware inside the probehead has broken and that is the main cause of the sample eject as well as spinning issues. It is fixed now and I have also shimmed up the probe to a decent state, after replacing the broken hardware. Please remember […]
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ALERT ! AV300 – SYSTEM UNUSABLE NOW…PNEUMATICS RELATED ISSUE
Dear Users As couple of you have noticed and communicated earlier, there is a sample ejection/injection problem in the system. A preliminary look today points the problem in the direction of the probehead. I will try to further investigate this afternoon and if a fix can be provided in house. Until that happens, I am […]
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RENEWED COMMITTMENT FOR SAFE OPERATIONS AT THE NMR FACILITY
Dear NMR Community I hope you all had a chance to consult the freshly communicated directives from our State’s head as well the appeal from the Vice-Provost of UW, sent through the Office of the Chair, Department of Chemistry. I want to piggy-back on these to re-iterate how important it is to adhere to the […]
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UPDATE ! AV300 – SYSTEM READY FOR USE – READ MORE INFO
Hello All Immediately : You can start booking time and use the instrument. Important Points to Keep in Mind : This is a manual tune/match Broadband probe i.e. 1H and all other nuclei This means that you must remember to run the “wobb” command and then do the tuning/matching by hand. (Did you check out the […]
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AV300 ! IMPORTANT HELP COMING YOUR WAY – PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE !
Dear Users You might recall my clarion call to approach either our Associate Manager Adrienne or myself if you have the need to learn/hone how to tune/match the NMR probe by hand. I am happy to pass on the following valuable resource to you. Adrienne has put together a video with hands-on demonstration of how […]
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ALERT ! AV300 – SYSTEM WILL BE DORMANT UNTIL TOMORROW
The ATMA probe’s functionality worsened further and so the eventuality I talked about came sooner. The Probehead has been pulled out for repairs and it is early times to tell if the same probe will be back in the magnet within a day. What to expect : We will either place the fixed ATMA probe […]
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UPDATE – AV300 – PROBE TUNING ISSUES
There has been repeated reported reports, albeit only from a subset of users, that the ATMA probe tuning/matching is taking very long. I want to first assure you that we are already working on possible ways to resolve this. Recap : Historically all NMR probes were tuned/matched by hand and this is an important and […]
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