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March 2, 2012 - The NMR Facility is happy to welcomes Dr. Eric Ye as its new NMR technician.  Eric has transferred to the NMR Facility from the National Ultra-high Field NMR Facility For Solids where he has been a technician for the last 4 years.  Please join me in welcoming Eric to his new position.

February 3, 2012 - Andy Lo has decided to accept a job as NMR technician at the University of Guelph.  His last day is Friday February 3rd.  Please join me in wishing Andy well in his new position.  We'll miss you, Andy!

January 5, 2012 - The NMR Facility now has a network license for Bruker's TOPSPIN 3.0 NMR processing software. Unlike earlier versions of TOPSPIN, which ran only under WINDOWS XP, TOPSPIN 3.0 will run on computers using the WINDOWS 7.0, WINDOWS VISTA and WINDOWS XP operating systems.  Please contact the NMR Facility staff to have this software installed on your computer.

November 11, 2011 - The Bruker AVANCE II 300 in BioScience 411 is now available for general use for all trained users.  Time must be booked through the CALCIUM time booking system.

October 21, 2011 - The installation of the AVANCE II 300 has now been postponed to Thursday October 27 at 9:00 am.  I have rearranged the lab in BSC 411 to make both the AVANCE 300 and AVANCE 400 available for use until the installation.  The lab will be open until Thursday October 27 at 9:00 after which both the AVANCE 300 and AVANCE 400 will be out of service until Thursday November 3^rd.

October 18, 2011 - The NMR lab in BIOSCIENCE 411 (AVANCE 300 and AVANCE 400 with sample changer) will be CLOSED TO ALL USERS FROM THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 (8:00 am) UNTIL THURSDAY OCTOBER 27 (8:00 am).  This closure is to accommodate the charging of a new magnet and the installation of an AVANCE II 300 NMR spectrometer.  The lab closure is necessary for safety reasons as the lab will be crowded with heavy rigging equipment.  You will be informed by email should it be possible to open the lab before October 27.  I apologize for this necessary inconvenience and suggest that you plan your experiments accordingly.

August 11, 2011 - The workstation in BSCI 411 will have to be moved out to make room for the AVANCE II 300 console to be commissioned this fall.  A new home for it is being sought.

August 5, 2011 - A new Bruker Fourier 300 NMR spectrometer for the undergraduate teaching lab will be delivered on Wednesday August 10th and will be operational before the beginning of the fall semester.  This will replace the existing Bruker AVANCE II 300 currently in the undergraduate lab.  The AVANCE II 300 will be moved to the NMR lab in BSCI 411 and installed this fall providing an additional broadband NMR spectrometer for research.

May 5, 2011 - NMR WORKSHOP.  Tuesday May 24  D’Iorio 214.  All welcome!  Free lunch for attendees.  More information here.

April 1, 2011 - Our NSERC RTI application for a new NMR console to replace our aging AVANCE 300 console was successful.  Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Bryce for submitting the proposal on behalf of all the NMR users. 

March 17, 2011 - A workstation has been installed in BSC 411 next to the Bruker AVANCE 300 and 400.  This workstation is equipped with a printer.  Feel free to use this computer to book your NMR time and process your NMR data.

March 14, 2011 - The Bruker AVANCE 300 has been moved from D'Iorio Hall, room 416 to the Bioscieences Complex, room 411 where it resides next to the Bruker AVANCE 400.  It is now available to all trained users. 

March 1, 2011 - The Varian INOVA 500 has just been upgraded with a new computer and new software.  It is available for use for all trained users.  A set of notes called "Getting Started on the Varian INOVA 500 running VNMRJ" has been posted on the TRAINING NOTES section of this web site.  Users who have been trained on the old software will need a bit of instruction before they will be permitted to use the instrument.  Please make arrangements with Andy or Glenn.

January 26, 2011 - The Bruker AVANCE 300 will soon be relocated from D'Iorio 430 to Biosciences 411 next to the Bruker AVANCE 400.

October 14, 2010 - The NMR Facility has purchased a campus-wide license for ACD's NMR Predictor Suite.  This software allows prediction of the ¹H, ¹³C, ³¹P, ¹⁹F and ¹⁵N NMR spectra of molecules drawn by the user.  It is FREE to you.  Come to the NMR lab (DRO 416) for details on how to have it installed on your computer. 

August 16, 2010 - The NMR Facility welcomes a new member, Dr. Andy Lo, who some of you may know as a post-doc from Dr. Bryce's lab.  Andy will be shadowing Cheryl during the week of August 16 - 20 and take over as the new NMR Facility technician on August 23.  Andy comes to us with years on NMR experience.  Please introduce yourself to him and make him feel welcome in his new role.  Cheryl will be leaving her post as NMR technician on August 20 in order to pursue full time graduate studies in September.  I would like you to join me in thanking Cheryl for her years of dedicated service to the NMR Facility and in wishing her well in her studies.

May 27, 2010 - Job Opening:  NMR Technician, University of Ottawa.  More information here.

April 21, 2010 - The NMR Facility now has a group on facebook!  Search for "uOttawa NMR" and join.

April 20, 2010 - With the large number of incoming summer students, the NMR instruments will be much busier.  To help accommodate the higher usage,  the AVANCE 300 in the undergraduate laboratory will be made available for research use from April 20 -  August 31.  As the NMR Facility is unable to assign keys to this area, all samples run on this instrument will be run by the NMR lab staff as a service.  To have your samples run on this instrument, please fill out a request form and leave your sample and the form in the NMR lab in D'Iorio 416.

March 29, 2010 - A background suppression technique for ¹¹B has been implemented on the Bruker AVANCE 400 with sample changer.  You can access this technique by selecting the appropriate parameter set appended with "_bg"  (e.g.. select "1d_11B_1Hdec_5min_bg"). Try it!

March 19, 2010 -  A background suppression technique for ¹¹B has been implemented on the Bruker AVANCE 500.  You can access this technique with a couple of new buttons  put on the command panel:  “11B bg” and “11B[1H] bg”.  Try it!

January 4, 2010 - The NMR Facility is now on Twitter.  Visit this link  http://twitter.com/Uottawanmr for the latest facility specific news.

November 4, 2009 - An air dryer and chiller for the Bruker AVANCE 500 has been installed.  This unit will deliver dry air to the NMR probe at temperatures as low as -50 degrees C.  Please visit the NMR lab for instructions on how to use it.

October 22, 2009 - An air dryer and chiller has just been delivered for the Bruker AVANCE 500.  This unit will be installed shortly and will allow low temperature NMR experiments to be carried out without the use of liquid nitrogen.

February 23, 2009 - The AVANCE 300 in D'Iorio 430 has been upgraded from XWINNMR 3.5 to TOPSPIN 2.1.  It is now available for use.  There are new training notes available from this site.

January 27, 2009 - The AVANCE III 400 for solids has been delivered and is being installed in MacDonald Hall room 012.  It will be available for use in February.  To see a few pictures of the installation, follow this link.

October 2, 2008 - NMR DATA PROCESSING WOKSHOP to be held on Thursday October 16, 10:00 - 12:00, D'Iorio Hall room 214.  The workshop will be presented by Arvin Moser of Advanced Chemistry Development and will include a presentation of the ACD's NMR processing software (available for free to all U of O students) and lots of time to ask questions.  If you would like to have some of your difficult data treated during the workshop please bring it to Glenn Facey before October 16.

September 26, 2008 - The AVANCE III 200 for solids has been delivered and installed in D'Iorio Hall room 416.  It is currently available for use.  To see a few pictures of the installation, follow this link.  (photos courtesy of David Bryce)

September 18, 2008 - The Server on which the CALCIUM time booking software was hosted is dead.  Follow this link to the new server.

August 28, 2008 - A new AVANCE III 400 spectrometer for solids will be installed in MCD 012.

August 28, 2008 - Scheduled spectrometer upgrades this fall / winter:  Both the AVANCE 300 and AVANCE 500 will be upgraded from XWINNMR 3 to TOPSPIN 2 with new computers.  These upgrades will require that you take a "training booster"  which will be offered by the NMR lab.  The console of the ASX 200 will be replaced with a new AVANCE III console.

July 17, 2008 - You now have another option for processing your NMR data.  The University of Ottawa has just purchased a university-wide site license for ACD's NMR processing software package.  This software will run on WINDOWS 2000, XP and VISTA computers.  It is currently installed on the workstation in DRO 430.  Please try it out and visit the NMR lab to arrange to have it installed on your PC.

April 30, 2008 - With the large number of incoming summer students, the NMR instruments will be much busier.  To help accommodate the higher usage,  the AVANCE 300 in the undergraduate laboratory will be made available for research use from May 1 -  August 31.  As the NMR Facility is unable to assign keys to this area, all samples run on this instrument will be run by the NMR lab staff as a service.  To have your samples run on this instrument, please fill out a request form and leave your sample and the form in the NMR lab in D'Iorio 416.

April 1, 2008 - The University of Ottawa will take delivery of a new Bruker AVANCE 400 NMR spectrometer for solids this summer.  This instrument will be installed in MacDonald Hall room 012 with the Bruker AVANCE 500.  In addition to the new 400, the 14 year old console for the ASX 200 spectrometer for solids will be replaced by a new Bruker AVANCE 200 console.  Also this summer, the Bruker AVANCE 500 spectrometer will be upgraded from XWINNMR 3.5 to TOPSPIN 2.0.  Congratulations to Dr. Bryce for his successful CFI proposal.

October 24, 2007 - Congratulations are in order for Dr. Bryce whose successful CFI proposal will fund a new solids NMR spectrometer.

October 17, 2007 - The Bruker AVANCE 400 with sample changer has become very busy lately often with queues exceeding 24 hours.  I'd like to point out that while you are waiting (impatiently) for your NMR data, the AVANCE 500 and INOVA 500 are often available for your use.  Many new NMR users have decided to get trained only on the AVANCE 400.  I encourage you to get trained on the other instruments as well.  There will be a time when the AVANCE 400 is unavoidably out of service and you will be unable to obtain NMR data.

October 5, 2007 - ¹H NMR experiments with ¹¹B decoupling are now available as an option on the Bruker AVANCE 500.  For best results, set the parameter "o2p" to the approximate chemical shift of the center of ¹¹B resonances.

August 23, 2006 - An NMR blog has been linked to this site.  Take a look at it for the latest news, advice, suggestions for interesting NMR reading and interesting NMR spectra. 

July 31, 2007 - CHM 8309B "Practical NMR Spectroscopy" will be offered concurrently with CHM 4380 in the second half of the 2007 fall semester.  Look at the details and download the class notes.

June 5, 2007 - The Gemini 200 NMR spectrometer in D'Iorio Hall room 430 has been decommissioned.

May 15, 2007 - ¹¹B NMR experiments are now available as an option on the Bruker AVANCE 400 to be run in automation on the sample changer.

May 8, 2007 - HSQC and edited HSQC experiments are now available on the AVANCE 400 and 500.  These are heteronuclear correlation experiments similar to the HMQC experiments.  The HSQC experiments will provide cleaner spectra than the magnitude HMQC spectra however, they will require phasing.  The edited HSQC experiment will give CH and CH₃ positive and CH₂ negative.  Follow this link for a  comparison between the HSQC and edited HSQC spectra for a sample of 1% 3-heptanone in CDCl₃ (positive is black and negative is red).  Both data sets were acquired in 10 minutes.

April 30, 2007 - From May 1 -  August 31 the AVANCE 300 in the undergraduate laboratory will be made available for research use.  As the NMR Facility is unable to assign keys to this area, all samples run on this instrument will be run by the NMR lab staff as a service.  To have your samples run on this instrument, please fill out a request form and leave your sample and the form in the NMR lab in D'Iorio 416.  

March 5, 2007 - A new technique has been implemented on the Bruker AVANCE 400 with sample changer to help improve sample throughput and efficiency.  The DEPTQ 135 technique is now available for selection in the list of experiments.  This technique has all of the information content of a standard ¹³C spectrum plus all of the information of a standard DEPT 135 spectrum.  In a DEPTQ 135 spectrum the quaternary and methylene carbons are antiphase with respect to the methine and methyl carbons.  I suggest that you use this technique in place of a standard ¹³C spectrum as it will almost always avoid the need to run both a standard ¹³C spectrum and a standard DEPT 135 spectrum.  For a comparison of standard ¹³C, standard DEPT 135 and DEPTQ  135  spectra for 10% ethylbenzene in CDCl₃, click here.

February 3, 2006 - The undergraduate chemistry laboratory will receive a state-of-the-art Bruker AVANCE 300 NMR spectrometer with an auto-tuning broadband probe. It will be installed in a newly renovated laboratory this summer and available for the fall 2006 semester. The Faculty of Science wishes to extend its heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Bruker BioSpin for their continued support of our students, programs and research initiatives.

January 4, 2006 - A new data workstation is available to all NMR users in Biosciences room 411.  This workstation is capable of connecting to all of the NMR spectrometers via FTP and runs Bruker TOPSPIN and MestReC for data processing.  The computer is equipped with a laser printer and a CD/DVD burner for data printing and archiving.  All users are welcome to log in with the username, "bloch" and password, "nmr".

December 5, 2005 - TOPSPIN is now installed on the workstation in D'Iorio 416 and is available for use.  I urge all students to start using this program to process all of their Bruker NMR data.

November 29, 2005 - The Bruker AVANCE 400 NMR spectrometer with sample changer is now available for general use.  Please download the training notes here.  The spectrometer will operate in walk-up mode at all times.  Time bookings are not necessary.

November 29, 2005 - The Faculty of Science has a site license for TOPSPIN (Bruker's new NMR software).  The license is installed on the faculty server and can accommodate up to 5 simultaneous users.  Each research group should install TOPSPIN on a computer in their lab.  The computer must be running Windows XP or Windows 2000 and must have at least 512 megabytes of RAM.  Please see the NMR Facility manager  for details on how to do get the software installed.  This program will be able to handle the processing of all of your Bruker NMR data.

October 6, 2005 - A new button called "Do All Experiments" has been added to the command panel on the Bruker AVANCE 300 spectrometer.  This program allows a user to set up and run all of the common experiments very easily and works as follows:  After locking and shimming, click the "Do All Experiments" button.  You will be asked to input a name for the data set in which you would like to collect the data.  You will then be asked how many scans you wish to take for your proton spectrum, as well as the upper and lower frequency limits (in ppm).  This information is used to set the receiver gain and spectral width for the proton and any of the 2D acquisitions.  You will then be asked if you would like to run a COSY, HMQC, carbon, DEPT-135, NOESY or HMBC spectrum.  You can answer either "y" for yes or "n" for no.  For each of the experiments you answer "y", you will be asked how much time (in hours) you wish to spend on it.  If you answer "y" for the NOESY spectrum you will also be asked to input a mixing time (in seconds).  All of the experiments will be set up in consecutive experiment numbers of the data set you specified.  The total experiment time will be calculated and you will be asked whether or not you wish to run the experiments immediately.  If you answer "y", the experiments will be started.  If you answer "n", the experiments will be setup and you can alter any parameters you wish and start the experiments later with the "multizg" command.  Please try this new feature and report any bugs or suggestions to the NMR Lab staff.

October 4, 2005 - Training notes for running liquid samples on the AVANCE 500 have been added to the "Training Notes" section of this web site.

October 3, 2005 - A new button called "Do All Experiments" has been added to the command panel on the Bruker AVANCE 500 spectrometer.  This program allows a user to set up and run all of the common experiments very easily and works as follows:  After locking and shimming, click the "Do All Experiments" button.  You will be asked to input a name for the data set in which you would like to collect the data.  You will then be asked how many scans you wish to take for your proton spectrum, as well as the upper and lower frequency limits (in ppm).  This information is used to set the receiver gain and spectral width for the proton and any of the 2D acquisitions.  You will then be asked if you would like to run a COSY, HMQC, carbon, DEPT-135, NOESY or HMBC spectrum.  You can answer either "y" for yes or "n" for no.  For each of the experiments you answer "y", you will be asked how much time (in hours) you wish to spend on it.  If you answer "y" for the NOESY spectrum you will also be asked to input a mixing time (in seconds).  All of the experiments will be set up in consecutive experiment numbers of the data set you specified.  The total experiment time will be calculated and you will be asked whether or not you wish to run the experiments immediately.  If you answer "y", the experiments will be started.  If you answer "n", the experiments will be setup and you can alter any parameters you wish and start the experiments later with the "multizg" command.  Please try this new feature and report any bugs or suggestions to the NMR Lab staff.

September 30, 2005 - Delivery of our Bruker AVANCE 400 is expected on October 11.  Installation, testing and setup will take approximately 6 weeks.

September 19, 2005 - The Bruker AVANCE 900 for solids is now accepting applications for time.  Please contact Glenn Facey to discuss this.

August 8, 2005 - Our data archiving policy has been added to site.  It is the responsibility of the user to archive their own NMR data.

June 29, 2005 - Training notes for running simple diffusion measurements on the AVANCE 500 have been added to the "Training Notes" section of this web site.

June 15, 2005 - The Bruker AVANCE 900 NMR spectrometer for solids was delivered to The National Ultra-High Field NMR Facility for Solids on the Montreal Road campus of the National Research Council in early June 2005.  Here are a few pictures of the installation (courtesy of Victor Terskikh and David Bryce)

May 25, 2005 - The Center for Catalysis has placed an order for a Bruker AVANCE 400 NMR spectrometer with a robotic sample changer.  The sample changer will handle up to 60 samples.  The spectrometer will be installed in the catalysis wing on the 4th floor of the new building.  Delivery is expected in September.

April 29, 2005 - Proton homonuclear decoupling experiments have now been made easy to run on the Avance 300 NMR spectrometer for novice users.  Simply run a proton spectrum in the usual way, move the data to a new experiment, type "dohomodec" and follow the simple on-screen instructions.  Have fun. 

April 14, 2005 - Proton homonuclear decoupling experiments have now been made easy to run on the Avance 500 and Inova 500 NMR spectrometers for novice users.  Simply run a proton spectrum in the usual way, move the data to a new experiment, type "dohomodec" and follow the simple on-screen instructions.  This will be implemented soon on the AVANCE 300 as well.

February 18, 2005 - New "FAQ" link added to site.

February 18, 2005 - The ten minute time slots (Mon-Fri) on the Bruker AVANCE 300 which currently span  form 8:00  - 13:00 will be extended to span 8:00 - 17:00.  These time slots can only be booked on the current day.  People requiring more time during the day to carry out non-routine measurements can come and make arrangements with the NMR Facility staff who will book time on their behalf.  This change will begin on Monday February 21 at 8:00 am.  Please follow the "RULES" link for further details.

February 10, 2005 - As of today, all requests for training will be made through the web by clicking the "GET TRAINED" button on the NMR web site.  After submitting the online form, you will be contacted by the NMR lab staff to arrange an appointment.

February 7, 2005 -  With the increased number of users on the Bruker AVANCE 500 NMR spectrometer, it is becoming more and more difficult for users  to reserve time and it is now time to begin implementing a few rules so that everyone gets the time they need. The following two rules will be implemented on Monday February 14, 2005.

February 4, 2005 - NMR website takes on new look.

November 15, 2004 - New Service request form now available from this site.  A single form will now be used for both liquid and solid samples submitted for service work.

October 19, 2004 - Training notes for the Bruker ASX-200 have been added to this site.

April 16, 2004 - After a long hard fight, the Gemini 200 is now back in service.

April 8, 2004 - Version 1 of Training Notes for the Varian INOVA 500 have been added to this site.

April 2, 2004 - Starting on Monday April 5, the Varian INOVA 500 MHz NMR will be available for general use. For the time being the instrument will be equipped with a probe capable of 13C and 1H NMR experiments only. The following options are now available to you.
1. Submit your sample to be run for you.
2. Get trained to run the instrument yourself.  Due to a restricted amount of space behind the console, training sessions will be limited to two people per session.  Sessions will be scheduled as needed on a first-come-first-serve basis.
 

March 31, 2004 - Congratulations are in order for the Center for Catalysis whose successful CFI proposal will fund a new 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with a robotic sample changer for high throughput.

March 29, 2004 - NMR POLICY CHANGES for the AVANCE 300 IMPLEMENTED TODAY.
Processing and plotting of data is no longer permitted on the AVANCE 300.  All data must be processed off-line.  If you are not sure how to do this please come and see either Cherly McDowall or Glenn Facey in D'Iorio 416.

Mon-Fri 8:00am - 1:00pm: 10 minute (maximum) booked time slots.
No more logbook, No more walkup.
These slots can only be booked on the current day.
Illegally booked slots will be cancelled without notice.

Mon-Fri 1:00pm - 8:00pm: 60 minute (maximum) booked time slots.
These slots can be booked two days in advance.

Mon-Fri 8:00pm - 8:00am: 12 hour (maximum) time slots.
These slots can be booked two days in advance.

Weekends (Saturday 8:00 am - Monday 8:00 am):12 hour (maximum) time slots. These slots can be booked two days in advance.
 

March 4, 2004 - Due to an unfortunate magnet quench, the Gemini 200  NMR spectrometer in D'Iorio 430 will be out of service until the magnet can be recharged by a service engineer.  I anticipate approximately 4 weeks of down time.

February 25, 2004 - Installation of the Varian INOVA-500 is in progress.

January 23, 2004 - The new Varian INOVA 500 console which will replace the Bruker AMX-500 console in D'Iorio 416 has been delivered.  The AMX-500 will be retired and decommissioned on Tuesday February 17.  Installation of the new console will begin on February 23.  The new spectrometer should be available for training sessions in late March. 

October 28, 2003 - The decision has been made for the replacement console for the Bruker AMX-500.  The console will be replaced with a Varian INOVA console equipped with a 5 mm (1H-19F)/ (15N-31P) probe with z gradient, a 3 mm 1H/13C probe with z gradient, a 5 mm 1H/13C/15N triple resonance probe with gradients and a 10 mm 15N-31P broadband probe.  The delivery of the console is expected early in the winter of 2004.  Brush up on your Varian commands!

October 21, 2003 - The computer workstation in D'Iorio Hall, room 416 is now equipped with a scanner and an improved CD burner for your convenience.

October 16, 2003 - CHM 4380 notes now available online as pdf file.

August 18, 2003 - As a result of the power failure on Thursday August 14, the NMR spectrometers will have irregular service.  The Gemini 200 and Avance 300 in D'Iorio Hall 430 will be kept in service as much as possible during the week of August 18 - 24.  The server used for time booking will also experience problems during that week and the instruments will be on walk-up status while the server is down, however you must sign the logbook with the time you use.  The AMX-500, ASX 200 and Avance 500 will remain shutdown until further notice.

July 28, 2003 - Printable Training notes are now available for the AMX 500 (in pdf format) from this site.

July 22, 2003 - Printable Training notes are now available for the Avance 300 (in pdf format) from this site.

July 10, 2003 - Funding has been obtained to replace the console of the AMX-500 with a new console.  Negotiations for the purchase are underway.