UW CHEMISTRY NMR
Announcments & Equipment Logs
UPDATE ! NEO500 – SYSTEM BACK TO NORMAL
Dear Users The system is behaving normally now. I would request those of you, whose data does not look good to resubmit your runs with the same sample holder positions to the queue. What all you need to do is just click cancel followed by Submit again. NMR Facility Manager 9/27/23
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ALERT ! NEO500 – SYSTEM DOWN DUE TO ATMA ISSUES
Dear NMR patrons When an experiment starts, the ATMA is an important automated step as we all know. The probe’s ATMA is getting stuck leading to a long delay for processing a single sample. The automation software has a timeout mechanism so that it doesn’t stop at a single sample. So, the queued samples overnight […]
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NEO500 – ICONNMR – NEW FEATURE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
Dear Users I guess by now you all have heard about the deployment of a new Financial System that started several weeks ago, which is a University wide transformation. In the context of the NMR facility, you may have already seen the effect of this when you reserve time with instruments GG500, AV300 or AV301. […]
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UPDATE : NEO500 : QUEUE IS RECOVERED FROM FROZEN STATE
Dear Users While we are looking for the cause of the frozen state of the queue yesterday, I wanted to inform you that the queue has been resumed and the originally submitted experiments will be run in the order they were requested. FYI NMR Facility Manager 8/29/23
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IMPORTANT NOTE ! – PLEASE DO NOT BRING WORK GLOVES INTO NMR LAB !!
Users Although you have been told during your orientation in no uncertain terms, it is worth repeating and remind ourselves. NO GLOVES IN THE NMR LAB ! ESPECIALLY, NEVER HANDLE THE NMR SPINNER WITH GLOVED HANDS (SEE PICTURE BELOW) This is one of the brand new spinners that came with the NEO500 NMR INSTRUMENT. The […]
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UPDATE : ALL GOOD WITH 300 CONSOLES
Dear Users There was a disruption in the high pressure air due to broken tubing, that led to the sample handling problems reported today morning. The problem has been fixed and the systems are back to normal. NMR Facility Manager 8/17/2023
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UPDATE ! NEO500 – QUEUE RESTARTED
The planned software update is complete to a later version. The queue has been restored and all the originally submitted experiments are continuing. Thank you NMR Facility Manager 7/11/2023
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ALERT ! NEO500 – WILL BE OFFLINE FOR SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE TILL 5 PM
Dear Users Kindly bear with me for the last minute update, but the system will be back to running the queue by 5 PM today. I will post a confirmation once the queue is resumed. NMR Facility Manager 7/11/23
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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 ! GG500 : iPROBE IS PRIMED AND READY TO GO
Dear Users Thank you for your kind patience. The probe shims up great and for those of you who are curious, here is a snapshot of the 1D proton spectrum of the so-called Lineshape standard, i.e. 1% CHCl3 in Acetone-d6. The wiggly noise flanking the central singlet of CHCl3 are mostly due to floor vibrations […]
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