The equipment installed at CQM/UMa within the National Program for Scientific Re-equipment/FCT (POCI2010/FEDER) integrates the Portuguese Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Network.

The rules of access and use of equipment, and the rights and obligations of users are regulated by a Model Management (PDF in Portuguese), agreed amongst all participants in the network, and by the regulation of the Unit operation (RFU). Pleas also check the general guidelines if you are interested in using this equipment.

Project reference:

REDE/1517/RMN/2005, PTNMR 2013

Unit Manager:

João Rodrigues

Unit Technician:

João Figueira

Type of equipament:

B2-Spectrometer Research and Teaching of Low Field

• NMR Spectrometer of 400 MHz (UltraShield™ 400 Plus ULTRA LONG HOLD)
• Console AVANCE 400 II+
• BBO Probehead 5 mm with actively shielded single axis Z-Gradient and ATM Accessory for automatic tuning and matching of all nuclei (Variable temperature range: -150°C to +180°C), two channel (1H, observe channel X-nucleus covers frequency range from 31P to 109Ag).

Accessories

• Bruker Digital Temperature Controller for temperatures above room temperature up to 180°C (Temperature stability : +/- 0.1 °C)
• Low temperature accessory with 26I LN₂ dewar, heat exchanger and PUR transfer line for operation with dry N² gas (Low temperature limit ca. -150 °C with 5mm probeheads and B-ST)
• NMR CASE sample changer for up to 24 samples; pneumatically controlled; includes specific adapter for the magnet system; temperature range -20 to +50°C; Includes 12 spinners of 5mm
• Cryogenic reservoir with 50 L capacity from Cryo Diffusion
• Filtration hood, model Chemfree 2000 90-M, from Faster, Certified by UNI EN ISO 9001:2000

Software

NMR workstation with TOPSPIN, ICON NMR, NMRSIM and NMR Guide software running on Windows XP.