The Shenandoah Valley Regional NMR
Facility was established with grants from The National Science
Foundation (9650132), The Merck Foundation and matching funds
provided by James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University
and Bridgewater College.
The facility includes a Bruker Avance
DRX-400 NMR, equipped with a six position autosampler, a variable
temperature 5 mm broadband autotune probe with a Z gradient, and an
SGI O2 host computer. Also available
for this instrument is a 10 mm broadband VT
probe. The facility also has a Bruker AMX-200 NMR
controlled with an SGI computer. This
system is equipped with a 5 mm broad band tunable probe and
variable temperature accessory. The
autosampler purchased for the DRX-400 will operate on the
AMX-200. These instruments are housed
at JMU and accessed remotely by the participating regional colleges
and universities. Currently the
systems are running XWIN-NMR version 3.0 software. Our most recent addition to the facility is a
300 MHz Bruker DPX system. It is
equipped with a 5 mm QNP probe for 19F,
31P,13C and 1H. There are two additional probes for this magnet,
a 5 mm BBO and a 5 mm 1H/13C probe. (If you
would like to see a series of pictures showing the installation
process of this spectrometer, click here.) The acquisition of this instrument was made
possible by a generous donation from Merck and Company in Elkton,
VA.
This website has been established as a
means of communicating the efforts of the Regional NMR Consortium
to the local scientific community and other interested
parties. This group is composed
chemists from Bridgewater
College, Eastern Mennonite
University, James Madison
University, Mary Baldwin
College and the University
of Virginia. We hope to use this
site as a means of providing information about our activities and
our efforts to include NMR spectroscopy in the undergraduate
curriculum. We will be providing some
laboratory experiments developed by students and faculty in the
consortium. Some of the information will be "just for fun" while
other information may be useful for your own students and/or
courses. You will also find links to other NMR sites which provide
some very good resources and information. Thank you for visiting
and if you have suggestions or comments please contact Tom Gallaher.
