Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
High and Medium Resolution Multinuclear Solids and Liquids NMR Spectroscopy
Our Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Equipment can yield:
- Structural identification
- Structure confirmation
- Atomic composition
- Compound identity
- Component composition of mixtures
- Information on molecular motion
- Conformational information
- Identification of surface rather than bulk species
- Details of low and high temperature effects
We are able to examine:
- Many nuclei; including H, C, F, P, N, Si, Al
- Liquids
- Solutions
- Crystalline or amorphous solids
Industrial applications range from identification of unknowns through quality control to process monitoring, catalysis studies and assessment of the final product. Almost any type of non-ferrous material can be studied although for solution NMR it is necessary for the material to be soluble in one of a wide range of solvents. One advantage of the technique is that it is non-destructive, so that all the sample can be recovered, if desired.
The equipment available at York includes high performance 400 - 700MHz multinuclear spectrometers for studying liquids, of which several have autosamplers, and the Neo700MHz also being equipped with a liquid Nitrogen cooled cryoprobe for greater sensitivity. There’s also a high power 400 MHz spectrometer for studying solids. Variable temperature facilities allow samples to be cooled to 173 K and warmed to 423 K; almost any NMR active nucleus can be studied at York.
For further information, please see the Centre for Magnetic Resonance.
Contact
Miss Heather Fish
Tel: +44 (0)1904 322506
Email: heather.fish@york.ac.uk