Dear All
Despite the inviting subject line, I am afraid I didn't hear much
to warrant a 'summary' of sorts vis-a-vis the benchtop NMR microuniverse.
Either those who are using such benchtop NMR solutions find the
instrument so flawless in meeting what's promised that there is nothing
novel to add or perhaps they are so fed up that they don't want to talk
about it ! I didn't get enough data to draw any conclusions. Either
way, this looks like a nascent field and I am inclined to second
Charlie Fry's suggestion that we can add this to the list of stuff we
might discuss in our AMMRL meeting at ENC.
On my own side, we are actively slicing and dicing the specs and
promises presented by different companies to see if these will stand up
to the (mis/ab)uses of our teaching lab realities. One interesting
thing I noticed in this regard is the magnet. All of them are going
for a permanent magnet solution for the 40 to 60 MHz range they are
making. Out of academic curiosity I was wondering, in this day and age
can they not make a superconducting magnet running with liquid Nitrogen
for a 60 MHz spectrometer ? At least one of the companies in the fray
is a magnets expert i.e. Oxford.
Happy spinning.
Best Regards
Rajan
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Rajan K Paranji, Ph.D.
NMR Facility Manager
Department of Chemistry
Room 65, Bagley Hall
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
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Received on Thu Mar 05 2015 - 12:26:30 MST