UW CHEMISTRY NMR

Dear NMR Users

Though embarassing , I must admit that this is the shortest life span of an NMR instrument that I had the privilege of handling as a Facility Manager thus far, which is of course entirely my own making.

Just after I announced the new instrument’s identity and the rationale behind it,  I realized that the ‘D Series’  of Bruker instruments are pretty much becoming dinosaurs and this is a vintage that we all want to forget.  DRX499 being almost the last one from this generation we are happy to say good bye to ( the other being the DPX200 instrument).   So it was a rather poor choice of name for the new instrument starting with ‘D…’ again  (perhaps a subconcious hangup of mine,  getting stuck in the past :-\ ).  Sorry for that.

Happily the situation is rescued by the recommendation from other sources that decreed the instrument be called gg500  or GG500.   The rationale given to me is that they stand for the ‘first letter of the first names’  of Faculty who were instrumental for this transition i.e. Prof. Gary Drobny and Prof. Gabriele Varani.

Moving from the Embarassing to the Happy,   the hardware part of setting up the new console is complete as of now.  I will be optimizing the instrument starting now.

Once the calibrations, initial shimming, etc.  are done,  I will post more relevant technical updates.

Thank you for your time.

NMR Facility Manager

7/13/2021