UW CHEMISTRY NMR
Announcments & Equipment Logs
June, 2023
UPDATE ! GG500 – ALL GOOD
Dear Users Topshim as well as Gradient assisted experiments are running correctly now. Tip: For fully dueterated lock solvents, you MUST touch up the X and Y shims by hand to get the best resolution ! NMR Facility Manager 6/28/23
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ALERT ! GG500 – GRADIENT MALFUNCTION
Dear Users We are aware of the issue with gradients that leads to a failure of Topshim (and gradient assisted experiments as well). We will take a look at the possible causes and provide an update as soon as we can. Stay tuned NMR Facility Manager 6/28/2023
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UPDATE ! NEO500 – SYSTEM UP – USER ERROR CAUSED INTERRUPTION
Dear Users I will once again draw your attention to the following post that was broadcast about a month ago. This pertains to the proper way a sample is handled with NEO500 and the SampleCase automated sample changer. Click here for that post. To jog your memory, here is the accompanying picture Over the […]
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ALERT ! NEW IMPLEMENTATION : USED SAMPLE POLICY
Dear Users The Picture would have jogged your memory about our discussion on how to handle unused sample tubes in NEO500 and avoid clogging up the queue system. In reality, the unused/abandoned sample tube problem has been a prevalent one even with the other systems that don’t sport an automation robot (yet !). After a […]
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UPDATE – NEO500 : AUTOMATION QUEUE STARTED AGAIN
Dear Users Nothing more to add on the technical side of the instrument. But I do have something to add as to the handling of sample and the system. There is a ‘method to the madness’ and a ‘rationale behind a pesky insistence’, when me or Adrienne shout from the rooftop. (As I was writing […]
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NEO500 – CALL TO ACTION – PLEASE CLEANUP AFTER YOURSELF !
Dear NEO500 Users This is a renewed call made a few weeks back about the piling up of unused/completed NMR sample tubes, that is overwhelming the system. See picture below : Since we don’t have a capacity larger than 24 sample tubes, we really need you to be on top of your cleanup act, […]
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GENTLE ALERT – NEO500 : SHORT STOP FOR INSTRUMENT MAINTENANCE
Dear NEO500 Users To complete the cleanup operation of a minor spillage event yesterday, the instrument queue will be suspended between 11 and 12 pm today. Please check the queue log below : NEO500 REALTIME QUEUE INFORMATION NMR Facility Manager 6/21/2023
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ALERT ! GG500 – POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO iPROBE – TXO PROBE IS IN ITS PLACE NOW
Hello All Following an unfortunate incident of a user dropping the sample tube into the magnet bore without a spinner, it turned out that the sample tube broke inside the new iProbe probehead. Being a mint condition probe, which also belongs to the latest generation, it will need careful handling in assessing the extent of […]
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FEATURE UPDATE : NEO500 – YOU WILL FIND THIS RATHER USEFUL
Dear Users Starting from today, the IconNMR session controlling the NEO500 system will contact you via email about the completion of your experiment and it will also send you a PDF snapshot of the processed spectrum. Let me elaborate. As soon as a sample in holder no. X is processed by the system, it […]
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