Award Abstract #0520618
MRI: Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Fort Lewis College

NSF Org:	CHE Division of Chemistry
Initial Amendment Date:	July 13, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	July 13, 2005
Award Number:	0520618
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Carlos A. Murillo CHE Division of Chemistry MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Start Date:	August 15, 2005
Expires:	July 31, 2008 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$330100
Investigator(s):	Monte Helm helm_m@fortlewis.edu (Principal Investigator) William Bartlett (Co-Principal Investigator) Robert Milofsky (Co-Principal Investigator) Cindy Browder (Co-Principal Investigator) Leslie Sommerville (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Fort Lewis College President's Office Durango, CO 81301 970/247-7100
NSF Program(s):	MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	BIOT,9184,9141
Program Element Code(s):	1189

ABSTRACT

With support from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, the Department of Chemistry at Fort Lewis College will acquire a 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Spectrometer. This equipment will enable researchers to carry out studies on a) the isolation, purification and identification of delphinine alkaloids from Delphinium and related plant genera; b) copper(II)-mediated approach to isoxazoles; c) synthesis and metal coordination studies of new cyclic and acyclic phosphine ligands; d) development of photochemical reaction detection (PCRD) schemes; and e) metabolism and enzymology of acidobacterium capsulatum.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools available to chemists for the elucidation of the structure of molecules. It is used to identify unknown substances, to characterize specific arrangements of atoms within molecules, and to study the dynamics of interactions between molecules in solution. Access to state-of-the-art NMR spectrometers is essential to chemists who are carrying out frontier research. The results from these NMR studies will have an impact in synthetic chemistry and biochemistry.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Lucas J. Mason, Elizabeth M. Perrault, Susie M. Miller and Monte L. Helm.  "Group 10 metal complexes of a cyclic diphosphine: The crystal structures of bis(cis-P,P- diphenyl-1,4-diphospha-cyclohexane)M(II) chloride, M = palladium, platinum,"  Inorganic Chemistry Communications,  v.9,  2006,  p. 946.


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