UW CHEMISTRY NMR
Announcments & Equipment Logs
NMR Facility Usage
UPDATE : ALL SYSTEMS (EXCEPT NEO500) READY FOR USE
As mentioned previously, NEO500 and Prodigy probe will be ready to accept samples in Automation queue by noon tomorrow i.e. Tuesday, the 11th. All other systems are ready for immediate use. NMR Facility (contact : amr0311@uw.edu; rajanp@uw.edu)
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ALERT ! BAGLEY ELECTRICAL SHUTDOWN ON MONDAY – IMPACTS
Approximately by evening of Sunday, 9th June, all NMR instruments will be powered down, in anticipation of an early morning electrical disruption next day i.e. Monday. All instruments, except the NEO500 with Prodigy Cryoprobe should be revived by noon on Monday, the latest. NEO500 will be released for regular use by Tuesday, 11th, morning. Please […]
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REMINDER ! NEO500 – ANNUAL CRYOPROBE MAINTENANCE TOMORROW
Dear Users This is a gentle reminder that the instrument won’t be available for regular use from the morning of 20 Feb, Tuesday until approximately the evening of 21st Feb, Wedensday. The acquisition queue should be available for routine use by 5 pm on Wednesday. If anything changes we will strive to inform you as […]
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ALERT ! Electrical Work Shut Down Information
On Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 7:00-9:00 AM Bagley Hall will experience a power shutdown for electrical work. The NMR Facility will begin shutdown procedures on most of the NMR Spectrometers at 4:00 PM on Tuesday, December 19. The NEO500 will begin at 1:00 PM due to planned weekly maintenance. We will begin bringing the instruments […]
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IMPORTANT ALERT – NEO500 – PLEASE CLEAR OLD SAMPLES BY THE END OF TODAY
Dear Users Deapartment of EH&S will make a visit and inspection tomorrow to make sure that the NMR facility is compliance with all the required policies and procedures. An important part of this is to make sure that we don’t have any of your old samples lying around in the buffer NMR tube rack that […]
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UPDATE ! NEO500 – EMAIL FEATURE UPON EXPERIMENT COMPLETION – RESTORED
Dear NMR cohort Following the ‘controlled’ power disruption of last weekend, few things broke uncontrollably and the last of this was the ability for NEO500 to send email to your individual Inbox, once your IconNMR is completed. This last lose end has been tied up now. I ran a dummy scan yesterday evening and the […]
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IMPORTANT NOTE ! NMR RESERVATIONS, MOVING FORWARD…
Dear Users Starting with immediate effect, you MUST use the following steps to reserve time on the NMR machines : If you haven’t done so already, please contact in-person, the Accounting people in Chemistry front office and ensure that your Netid is entered in the new Financial system and it is tied to a valid […]
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UPDATE ! NMR ACCOUNTING SYSTEM TRANSITION – GROWTH PAINS
Dear Users Those of you who attempted to book NMR time TODAY as usual would have noticed the eerie quietness of the calendar page for any of the instruments. Even the maintenance related reservations such as cryogen fills will have disappeared. For some Netid-s the reservation system allows you to block time and for most […]
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ALERT ! GG500 – iPROBE IS BACK – PROBE CHANGE TODAY
Dear Users We usually provide a day or so, when a probe swap is planned in a given instrument. This is usually the practice when the swap is done for benign reasons. An example will be moving from BB (BroadBand) capability to a specialized capability such as only-19F observation. This usually gives the BB users […]
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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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