POLICIES & TRAINING
General policies
- No food or beverages are permitted near the spectrometers or workstations.
- Do not prepare your samples in the NMR Lab.
- Do not leave your NMR tubes in the NMR lab.
- If a sample breaks in the magnet, contact the NMR lab staff immediately so that the probe can be cleaned. This will minimize probe damage from corrosive solvents.
- All users must follow the scheduling restrictions of the NMR lab, and register in advance.
- Non-standard experiments/ probe changes must be scheduled with the NMR lab staff in advance.
- Do not change any NMR probes or reconnect any RF cables.
Facility Schedule (maintenance)
Liquid nitrogen fills are performed once a week, on Tuesday morning (08:00-10:00).
Liquid helium fills normally render the instruments unstable for a few hours. Fills generally occur once in 3-4 months. If you are scheduled for an instrument on that day, a notice will appear.
A guide for new NMR Users
Our NMR spectrometers are normally operated by trained users or as a service.
- The instruments are accessible to anyone who has been trained in their use by the NMR lab staff, and work is performed for their own research groups. Each authorized-user account is given special permission for scheduling time on the instruments (via Internal Services) as well as a userid for login to the instruments.
- Service is provided for WIS staff (Internal NMR Services) as well as for external users (External NMR Services).