School of Life Sciences

NMR

The School is the home to three state of the art Varian VNMRS solution-state NMR spectrometers, providing comprehensive NMR facilities to the researchers within the School. All three spectrometers are equipped with pulsed field gradients and are capable of variable temperature operation.

Two instruments are available to researchers on an open-access basis: the 400 MHz spectrometer mainly supports inorganic chemistry and is equipped with an autotuning X{¹H-¹⁹F} broadband probe, whereas the 500 MHz instrument handles the majority of the small molecule structure elucidation tasks using an inverse ¹H{¹³C} probe.

Our main research instrument is the 4-channel 600 MHz spectrometer, equipped with both an autotuning X{¹H-¹⁹F} broadband probe and an 1H{¹³C/¹⁵N/³¹P/²H} AutoPenta Probe for biological samples. This instrument is well suited for both small molecule work and structural studies of medium-sized biopolymers.

For further information please contact Dr Iain Day I.J.Day@sussex.ac.uk