A fully operational student NMR lab has been opened at the Institute of Chemical Technology (VSCHT) in the Czech Republic
A fully operational student NMR lab has been opened at the Institute of Chemical Technology (VSCHT) in the Czech Republic. The lab contains a brand new Varian 300 MHz Mercury plus NMR spectrometer in broadband RF system configuration that is equipped with pulse gradients and contains a four-nucleus (1H/19F/31P/13C) probe.
VSCHT chose the Mercury system in order to provide students in the lab with ease-of-use, sophistication, and durability in one compact package.
VSCHT selected Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) to equip the lab with the most modern spectral data management software.
NMR Manager version 7.0 has been installed on the lab's computer station, providing the lab with prediction, assignment, and databasing capabilities for 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and 19F NMR.
ACD/Labs also provided VSCHT with a campus-wide installation of ChemSketch, the all-purpose chemical drawing and graphics software package from ACD/Labs. Funding for the lab was covered by a joint financing project between the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, both of the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, along with a grant from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.
The NMR laboratory will be used for the independent work of MS and PhD students, as well as for the laboratory exercise of undergraduate students beginning in their second year of study.
The new lab will enhance student research work and the teaching process at all levels.
