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Getting Trained

To get an user account and to be able to reserve time and use the instruments, you need to attend a Varian basic operation training, which lasts for about 1 hr,  and then complete the individual training, which usually takes 2-3 hours.

You initiate the training process by sending this email to ion@chem.ufl.edu. A Varian basic operation training will be organized for you in no more than a week. At the group training the instructor demonstrates the basic operation on a standard sample. This will be followed by individual trainings during the TA’s office hours in which you will run your own samples, with the help of the Teaching Assistant. Most people need three individual sessions, but take as many sessions as needed until you feel confident. In the end, after a brief test, an account will be created for you. At this point you have access to two Varian instruments, the i2c and m4n.

After that, I encourage you to come to the Bruker basic operation training. This lasts for half an hour and we’ll talk about what is different in topspin (the Bruker software) vs. vnmrj (Varian). This training will open up for you two new instruments, the b600 and the b400.

If you are a synthetic chemist, you most likely want to take the 2D training. You will learn how to do structure elucidation using 2D NMR and how to set the experiments  in vnmrj. If you are a polymer chemist, you may want to learn how to measure diffusion coefficients by NMR. This is an alternative to Gel Permeation Chromatography for determining the size of a polymer. Any of these trainings will give you access to the i3c. This instrument has an indirect detection probe, so you need to run 2D indirect detection experiments to get the C13 information.

In the next step, during a 30 minutes training you will learn how to run 2D NMR on Bruker instruments.

The training handouts are here.

For all other trainings contact Ion.

news

  • b400 and i3c now open for users November 3, 2020
  • Added runs on Sunday September 17, 2020
  • Labor Day runs September 4, 2020
  • New schedule for the service runs August 31, 2020
  • New schedule for the runs July 31, 2020
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