Campus User Training:

The program and training classes are offered to users at UM College Park Campus, who will be using the facility frequently at least on a monthly basis.

For non-frequent campus users, please submit samples to staff, contact us for more details.

If you would like to have limited access to NMR labs (as an observer) with a authorized user. Please fill out a separate application form.

Procedure to enroll:

• Download and Complete the registration form. Download the current cost for user training and self-service rates for your sponsor reference if needed.
• For new users who have never used the NMR Center, return the form and arrange a 40 minutes safety orientation before starting any training class.
• Current NMR users seeking additional advanced level training , no safety orientation is required, simply return the form with appropriate selection of the desirable training to my attention.
• Dates and time of the training will be scheduled according to the available resources.

Operation Manual and Tutorials:

All spectrometers in the Center are equipped with the same software Bruker TOPSPIN for data acquisition and processing.

The Manuals listed below are for manipulation and data processing only. Instruction for Specific NMR applications are not in these manuals.

The application notes (step-by-step setups) are available on-line once you log on the spectrometer.

As your research progresses, additional training notes and manuals are available to operate the advanced spectrometers.

New to Bruker spectrometers:

Start here first!

• Condensed summary of Bruker Spectrometer with software TOPSPIN.
• Quick lookup menu and icons of TOPSPIN.
• Bruker System Control Microprocessor Key Pad.... by Balazs, Technion NMR facility
• Data Acquisition with Bruker Spectrometer in UM NMR Center.
• Data Processing and Data transfer Tutorial with TOPSPIN.
• HOW to use Bruker TOPSPIN Plot Editor (UMCP summary).
• Plot Editor-- Bruker comprehensive User training note.
• Common Solvent Shifts from Cambridge Isotope.

Using the Fully automated Bruker Spectrometer-- chem400 in NMR Lab II.

Good for concentrated samples for product screening and fast analysis. Capabilities: H-1, C-13, P31 and F-19 and routine 2D NMR (COSY and HSQC). Operation Manual and policy for the automated NMR spectrometer

Using the advanced spectrometers in NMR Center Lab I (400MHz, 500MHz and 600MHz)

• Arrange training session with Yiu-fai Lam. Material and instruction varied depending on your projects.
• Supplementary Instruction notes.
• Training notes for 2D NMR tutorial with Bruker NMR software TOPSPIN.
• Further Reading: Application in UMCP-NMR web reference links.

Off-line NMR data processing:

There are several options to process your NMR data once the data is transferred to your own PC or the Workstations in UMCP NMR Center.

• Use Bruker TOPSPIN (same software as in the spectrometers).
  • Four workstations are located in the NMR labs (two in each lab). Two additional workstations are located in the OWL lab in the Chemistry Building (3rd floor).
  • If data is stored in the spectrometer, use "ftp" to the corresponding console computer, or from your own flash drive.
  • If data has been transferred to the Station, use the "share" and start "TOPSPIN" directly.
  • Read Data processing tutorials for details.
• NMR data processing with MestReNova.
• UNIX based NMRPipe: nmr_pipe
  • Reference: J. Biomol. NMR. 6, 277-293 (1995).
• Computer Assist resonance assignment - CARA -- by Kurt Wurthrich Group.cara
  

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