Principal Investigator
Dr. John Dolhun, Chemistry
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2015
Department/Lab/Center:
Chemistry
The goal of this project is to make NMR available to all MIT students who take courses in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory. The project includes purchasing a new benchtop 60MHz NMR spectrometer. The new portable NMR spectrometer is the size of a shoe box and weighing only 45lbs can be moved in the lab and set up in minutes where it will be needed for an experiment. Unlike other large 300MHz instruments this machine requires no weekly maintenance and no cooling with liquid He and liquid N2. Although the Chemistry Department operates several high magnetic field instruments there is limited access to these instruments for teaching non-major undergraduate students.