Varian Mercury 300

The MRC operates two Varian Mercury 300 spectrometers, one in the Department of Chemistry (KNCL 119) and one in the Department of Polymer Science (GDYR 103a).

These NMR instruments are 300 MHz spectrometers equipped to observe ¹H/¹⁹F and ¹³C/³¹P. In addition to routine 1-D ¹H and ¹³C spectra, homo- and heteronuclear decoupling, APT, DEPT, COSY, HETCOR (Heteronuclear shift correlation), homonuclear-2DJ, NOE Difference and saturation experiments etc., can be performed.

The Mercury instruments are intended to be walk up instruments for undergraduate and graduate student research. Only people who have been checked out by MRC personnel are allowed to use the instrument.

These instruments are intended for routine walk-up access, however up to 30 minute time slots may be reserved between the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM.; two hour time slots can be reserved from 5:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M., and up to 10 hours can be reserved between 10:00 P.M. and 8:00 AM.; Signup is via a reservation system accesible via the Scheduling page.

Instrument rates for UA users can be found on the Instrumentation Rates page.

Acknowledgments: Users who publish papers including data from these instruments should include the following statement: We wish to thank The Goodyear Corporation for donation of the NMR instrument used in this work.