Centre for Magnetic Resonance
The Department of Chemistry has established a Centre for Magnetic Resonance that provides advanced NMR support for multidisciplinary research where magnetic resonance is applied to the study of chemical problems. The principal strengths in NMR spectroscopy at York lie in the areas of solid-state NMR, biological applications, studies within inorganic and organic chemistry, and the development of hyperpolarisation methods. Imaging facilities strengthen links to Biology and Psychology where interdisciplinary research projects with neuroimaging are already active.
NMR Building
The Centre’s main laboratory is located in the new building shown above which houses a Jeol 270, two Bruker 500’s and a Bruker 700. There is also a Bruker 600 wide-bore system that is equipped for imaging and high resolution studies located next to an Oxford Instruments Hypersense (TM).
Dynamic Nuclear Polariser. DNP is a technique that strongly enhances NMR signal intensities. The building and the instruments were funded through a £3.5 million Science Research Infrastructure (SRIF) grant that was made available through the University.
700 MHz spectrometer
600 MHz spectrometer and Hypersense Dynamic Nuclear polariser
Facilities
Within the Department there is also Bruker 300 AMX located in the undergraduate teaching laboratory for student use. The new Dorothy Hodgkin Building houses a Jeol 400 which is used extensively by the synthetic organic research groups. There are two further 400 MHz instruments associated with specific research groups in inorganic chemistry and clean chemical technology.
Collectively there are facilities for:
- multinuclear NMR spectroscopy of small molecules
- protein structure determination
- laser photochemistry within the NMR probe
- imaging
- dynamic nuclear polarisation (DNP)
Contact points
Technical support for the centre is provided through the experimental officers:
- Heather Fish (hf6@york.ac.uk) (External Service)
- David Williamson (dw523@york.ac.uk) (Imaging).
For more advanced discussions please contact:
- Simon Duckett (sbd3@york.ac.uk) (NMR director, Solution-State NMR)
- Angelika Sebald (as575@york.ac.uk) (Solid-State NMR)
