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Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystals |
World Scientific: "This edited volume provides an extensive overview of how nuclear magnetic resonance can be an indispensable tool to investigate molecular ordering, phase structure, and dynamics in complex anisotropic phases formed by liquid crystalline materials. The chapters, written by prominent scientists in their field of expertise, provide a state-of-the-art scene of developments in liquid crystal research. The fantastic assortment of shape anisotropy in organic molecules leads to the discoveries of interesting new soft materials made at a rapid rate which not only inject impetus to address the fundamental physical and chemical phenomena, but also the potential applications in memory, sensor and display devices. The review volume also covers topics ranging from solute studies of molecules in nematics and biologically ordered fluids to theoretical approaches in treating elastic and viscous properties of liquid crystals. This volume is aimed at graduate students, novices and experts alike, and provides an excellent reference material for readers interested in the liquid crystal research. It is, indeed, a reference book for every science library to have."
The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, December 15-20,
2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
http://www.pacifichem.org/
NMR
Spectroscopy of Polymers (Symposium
#12) Peter Macdonald, University of Toronto
Biomolecular
Structure and Dynamics - Recent Advances in NMR (Symposium
#43) Mitsuhiko Ikura, Ontario
Cancer Institute
Advances in Solid-State NMR of Biological Molecules (Symposium
#58) Michèle Auger, Université Laval
Solid-State NMR Methods and Applications in Inorganic Materials (Symposium
#228) Scott Kroeker, University of Manitoba
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Clare
Grey and Robert Tycko have published an article in the September
issue of Physics Today (cover credit) introducing solid-state
NMR spectroscopy to a broader audience, and reviewing recent NMR applications
in biochemistry and materials sciences. This article is an easy read
about a complicated topic with many colour figures and diagrams, which
your students may find useful in their studies. Clare P. Grey and Robert Tycko, "Solid-state NMR in biological and materials physics," Physics Today 62 (2009) 44-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3226855 |
).
This
2009 special issue of Canadian Journal of Chemistry is dedicated to
Professor Tom Ziegler (University of Calgary, web
),
a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry, one of
the pioneers of density functional theory (DFT). Prof. Ziegler has made many
important contributions to the development of DFT calculations of NMR parameters.
We encourage you to read two wonderful tributes to Prof. Ziegler written by
Arvi Rauk, Heiko Jacobsen and Tom Woo, and to browse through many excellent
research papers by world-leading experts in computational chemistry.
This special CJC issue is devided in two parts:
Part 1 of 2, volume 87, number 7, July 2009
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp-ps/inDetail.jsp?jcode=cjc&lang=eng&vol=87&is=7
Part
2 of 2, volume
87, number 10, October 2009
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp-ps/inDetail.jsp?jcode=cjc&lang=eng&vol=87&is=10
Web:
The
Ziegler Research Group Home Page
ACS Publications celebrates National Chemistry Week 2009, October 19-24,
by providing one-week free access to the ACS
Symposium Series Online including Advances in Chemistry books.
Don't miss this opportunity to browse and download many attention-worthy review
articles free of charge.
Among most recent NMR titles are "Modern
NMR Spectroscopy in Education" (Eds. D. Rovnyak and R. Stockland,
2007), and "Solid-State
NMR Spectroscopy of Inorganic Materials" (Ed. J.J. Fitzgerald, 1999).
The Laukien Prize was established in 1999 to honor the memory of Professor
Gunther Laukien, a co-founder of Bruker BioSpin. The Laukien Prize carries
a monetary award of $20,000 funded by Bruker BioSpin and is intended to recognize
cutting-edge experimental NMR research with a high probability of enabling
beneficial new applications. The Prize recipient will also deliver the opening
Plenary lecture at the ENC conference.
Nominations for the Laukien Prize are now being accepted. The award will be
announced at the next ENC.
The nominated work should be published within the last three years. In some
special cases, the award may be for cumulative achievements over a longer
period. Nominations should be submitted by October 30.
For
more information and for the list of past Laukien Prize recipients
http://enc-conference.org/
51st
ENC
April
18-23, 2010, Hilton Hotel, Daytona Beach, FL
Talk abstracts deadline January 12, 2010
Poster abstracts deadline March
12, 2010
http://www.enc-conference.org/
Dear All,
Registration for MOOT XXII in Ottawa is still open and will be so until Wednesday,
October 14. This is the deadline for having final numbers for caterers,
banquet etc.
No more oral presenation will be accepted since the program is filled up with
very interesting talks. Poster presentations will be accepted all the way
to the end and the program will updated as they come.
The Suraj Manrao Traval Award will contribute three 50$ awards for
the best three posters from graduate students. Great many thanks to Suraj!
Check the website www.mootnmr.org
for all information regarding maps how the get around and updates of the program.
If people are interested in gathering someplace for dinner and drinks on Friday
night please let me know and we can arrange something.
I am looking forward to see you all in Ottawa in less than a couple of weeks,
Yves
mootnmr "at" gmail.com
Free
tickets for the Physica
Phantastica Exhibit and the Q2C
Film Festival as well as paid cultural event tickets can be ordered here.
To view the full schedule and plan your trip, visit the Festival’s website
at http://www.q2cfestival.com/
Several Manitoba media outlets run a feature story today about high-resolution liquid-state NMR in urine to identify metabolite profiles associated with acute rejection in children after renal transplantation. Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen at the Manitoba Institute of Child Health has teamed up with Ray Somorjai from NRC-IBD in Winnipeg to show that urine metabolites (simple sugars, amino acids and waste products) detected non-invasively could help in identifying rejection risks at early stages and to reduce morbidity.
Read
the full story in Winnipeg
Free Press
T. Blydt-Hansen, R. Somorjai "Urine metabolite profiles associated with acute rejection in pediatric renal transplants," Pediatric Transplantation 13 Supplement 1:49, April 2009
The
second U.S.-Canada Winter School on Biomolecular Solid State NMR will be held
in Stowe, Vermont, January 24-29, 2010. This is a pedagogical meeting, aimed
primarily at graduate students and postdocs, with the goals of training them
in fundamental conceptual and experimental aspects of biomolecular solid state
NMR, promoting frank discussions of current trends and bottlenecks, and generally
catalyzing future progress. The meeting is also open to more senior scientists
who are interested in entering the field of biomolecular solid state NMR.
Applications consist of the following three items, all of which should be
sent as PDF attachments by E-mail to
robertty "at" mail.nih.gov
1.
CV and publication list
2. Brief description of current research, not longer than one page
3. One-page letter of recommendation from current research supervisor. (In
the case of a more senior scientist, a brief explanation of your motivations
can substitute for a letter of recommendation.)
THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS OCTOBER 16. Applications received after this date may not be considered. For the first Winter School, we received about twice as many applications as we could accept, so this deadline should be taken seriously.
The
first Winter School in 2008 was a big success, and is described at
http://web.mit.edu/fbml/winterschool2008/Winterschool2008.html
The second Winter School will have the same location and a similar format. At the first Winter School, we were able to provide free meals and lodging to most students and postdocs, so their expenses were limited to travel and a modest registration fee. There were approximately 75 attendees from about 25 research groups. We expect the size and finances of the second Winter School to be similar.
Best
wishes to all,
Rob Tycko and Bob Griffin, organizers of the 2nd Winter School
the Summer 2009 Issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news
bulletin is now available for download.
We would like to thank all who contributed their news stories. To make this news bulletin useful and informative for the Canadian NMR Community, we continue to rely on your support and contributions. We also encourage you to print out hard copies of this bulletin and to share them with your colleagues and students.
The Fall 2009 issue is due in early November. Meanwhile you are welcome to submit any NMR-related news and announcements to our news-pages for immediate posting.
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This high-profile special issue of PCCP guest-edited by Paul Hodgkinson (Durham, UK) and Stephen Wimperis (Glasgow, UK) will be presented to the participants of the upcoming 6th Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR in September 2009 (conference web-site). Among many excellent reviews and research papers highlighting recent trends and progress in the field of solid-state NMR spectroscopy there are four by Canadian researchers, including the front cover article by Gang Wu's group from Queen's. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 11, issue 32, 2009 |
Pedro M. Aguiar, Michael J. Katz, Daniel B. Leznoff and Scott Kroeker, "Natural abundance 13C and 15N solid-state NMR analysis of paramagnetic transition-metal cyanide coordination polymers," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6925-6934. (Invited Article, Themed Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b907747b
Jianfeng
Zhu, Amanda J. Geris and Gang Wu, "Solid-state 17O NMR as a sensitive
probe of keto and gem-diol forms of alpha-keto acid derivatives," Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6972-6980.
(Cover Article, Themed
Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906438a
Rebecca P. Chapman and David L. Bryce, "Application of Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance and Gauge-Including Projector-Augmented Wave Calculations to the Study of Solid Group 13 Chlorides," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6987-6998. (Invited Article, Themed Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906627f
Luke
A. O'Dell and Robert W. Schurko,
"Static solid-state 14N NMR and computational studies of nitrogen
EFG tensors in some crystalline amino acids," Physical Chemistry Chemical
Physics 11 (2009) 7069-7077. (Invited Article, Themed
Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906114b
If you use Gaussian to help interpret your solid-state NMR Sam Adiga, Dom
Aebi and David Bryce (University of Ottawa) have written a computer program
called “EFGShield” which parses and summarizes Gaussian output files
containing shielding and EFG data. The program provides results which are
directly comparable to data extracted through simulations of experimental
spectra using programs such as WSOLIDS (e.g., quadrupolar coupling constants,
Euler angles, etc.).
S. Adiga, D. Aebi, and D.L. Bryce, "EFGShield: A Program for Parsing
and
Summarizing the Results of Electric Field Gradient and Nuclear Magnetic Shielding
Tensor Calculations," Can. J. Chem. 85 (2007) 496-505 (link).
Updated Version 2.3 includes:
1. Built-in quadrupole moments have been updated to reflect Pyykkö's
most recent recommendations
2. The program can now handle files containing up to 900 atoms.
3. Several equivalent sets of Euler angles are outputted rather than
just one representative set.
4. Minor bug fix for Euler angles in highsymmetry environments.
If you are interested, you can download the program here
http://www.catalysis.uottawa.ca/EFGShield-download.php
Please contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Dave Bryce
http://www.science.uottawa.ca/~dbryc159/
Version 3.1 of the SpinWorks NMR freeware processing and simulation package is now available for download at:
ftp://davinci.chem.umanitoba.ca/pub/marat/SpinWorks
The file is SpinWorks_310.zip
In addition to the usual bug fixes new features include the ability to read and display processed 2D and 3D data from NMRPipe, and a band-fitting (deconvolution) feature. The LP routines have been re-written for .NET so the code is now .NET clean, with the LP.dll Win 32 file no longer needed.
The program should run on all Windows systems from Win 2000 and up, and has been run successfully on Macs with "parallels". Being .NET clean it should also run on Linux under "mono" with all path separator issues ("\" vs "/") being resolved. I haven't been doing any Linux testing myself, so any feedback that I can get would be greatly appreciated!
Kirk
Marat
http://www.umanitoba.ca/chemistry/nmr/spinworks/index.html
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Quadrupolar
halogens find widespread use i.e. in pharmaceutical formulations.
Solid-state NMR provides a direct mean to probe local halogen |
Rebecca
P. Chapman, Cory M. Widdifield and David
L. Bryce,
"Solid-State NMR of Quadrupolar Halogen Nuclei," Progress
in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 55 (2009) 215–237.
(Invited Review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2009.05.001
See other publications enabled by the 900 NMR Facility here
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Unique instrumentation available at the 900 NMR Facility allows our users to deal with systems and nuclei inaccessible before with NMR at lower fields. One example is 73Ge NMR in solids which was previously limited only to highly symmetric environments. In this cover article just published by Chemical Communications a research team from the University of Manitoba and NRC-SIMS is reporting natural abundance 73Ge NMR spectra in much more challenging amorphous and crystalline germanium oxides. Work continues on even more complex glasses and crystalline phases to address long-standing fundamental questions in glass science, such as the ‘‘germanate anomaly’’. |
Vladimir K. Michaelis, Pedro M. Aguiar, Victor V. Terskikh and Scott Kroeker, "Germanium-73 NMR of Amorphous and Crystalline GeO2," Chemical Communications (2009) 4660-4662. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906642j
See other publications by users of the 900 NMR Facility here
A special issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on modern aspects of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) has been finalized and is now available online (external link). This PCCP issue brings together a broad range of manuscripts dealing with novel EPR applications, new methodologies and advances in data analysis. It will be displayed at the upcoming 7th European Federation of EPR Groups conference in Antwerp, Belgium in early September 2009. http://www.efepr2009.ua.ac.be/
Canadian contribution in this issue is by our colleagues from the NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences collaborating with fellow EPR spectoscopists from Russia, Germany, and France.
E.G. Bagryanskaya, D.N. Polovyanenko, M.V. Fedin, L.Kulik, A. Schnegg, A. Savitsky, K. Möbius, A.W. Coleman, G.S. Ananchenko and J.A. Ripmeester, "Multifrequency EPR study of the mobility of nitroxides in solid-state calixarene nanocapsules," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6700–6707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906827a
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Robert
Schurko (University of Windsor) has just been promoted to the rank
of Full Professor. Join us in congratulating Rob with this recognition of his research and teaching success! |
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Cory Widdifield, Rebecca Chapman, and David Bryce from the University of Ottawa have just published a long-awaited review in Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy on solid-state NMR of quadrupolar halogen nuclei. This review will be of interest not only to material scientists and NMR spectroscopists, but also to students and those just learning about solid-state NMR of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei. |
VIVA III, the 3rd annual West Coast NMR minisymposium will take place at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby Mountain Campus) on Friday and Saturday, July 24-25, 2009. The aim of this one and a half day symposium is to bring together NMR users, researchers and managers from western Canada and the north-west of the USA to share information on topics of general NMR interest and to foster the development of an NMR community. Talks or poster presentations by graduate students are especially encouraged.
The program will consist of 20 minute talks, a poster session/social gathering and a banquet on Friday. A meeting of NMR facility managers is scheduled for Saturday morning.
Further symposium details
are available at http://www.sfu.ca/~vivanmr
Albert Overhauser, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University, has
been awarded the 2009 Russell Varian Prize. The prize recognizes the initial
contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology of great importance
in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The award ceremony will take place
in July during the EUROMAR 2009
Symposium in Göteborg, Sweden.
In 1953, Professor Overhauser delivered a talk to the American Physical Society
on Polarization of Nuclei in Metals. The lecture was subsequently published
in Physical Review (Volume
92, pp. 411-415) and since then cited over 500 times. His findings led
to the discovery of the Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) and the development
of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) technique.
Albert W. Overhauser, "Polarization of Nuclei in Metals," Phys. Rev. 92 (1953) 411-415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.92.411
Press
release by Purdue University (Purdue)
About
Albert Overhauser (Purdue)
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has announced today major investment in Canadian Research Infrastructure. More than $665 million was awarded to 133 projects at 41 Canadian research institutions through the CFI’s Leading Edge Fund and New Initiatives Fund. Among infrastructure projects receiving Government's support is the Canada's first 950 MHz NMR spectrometer at the University of Toronto (Lewis Kay, Biochemistry) to enable studies of the structure and dynamics of complex biological molecules, as well as the technological development of biological NMR.
Project title: "High Field NMR Studies of Protein Molecules in Health and Disease" (CFI contribution $4,595,843)
This very significant hardware acquisition will ensure Canada's leading role
in biological NMR research.
Congratulations are due to Lewis Kay and his team at the UofT !
A complete list of awarded projects (CFI
web-site)
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If
you are planning on visiting Edmonton, don't miss a rare opportunity
to glimpse inside of a cut-open NMR magnet at the University of Alberta.
A well thought out and professionally arranged magnet display has been
recently opened to public in the Chemistry Department building. Not
only you have a chance to see what's inside of an NMR magnet, you will
also learn a great deal about NMR from a slide presentation that runs
continuously on the overhead monitor for your enjoyment. If traveling
to Edmonton is not in your plans, you can still see this presentation
online, courtesy
of Albin Otter, an NMR Facility Service Officer at the University
of Alberta, who coordinated efforts in putting this wonderful educational
display together (photo credit). |
Bruker BioSpin has announced the launch of a breakthrough one Gigahertz Ultrahigh-field NMR spectrometer incorporating the world’s first 23.5 Tesla standard-bore (54 mm) superconducting NMR magnet. The first AVANCE 1000 system will be delivered to the Ultra-High Field European NMR Center in Lyon, France in July 2009, where it will be used for research in biomolecular liquid and solid-state chemistry.
Read
the press release by Bruker BioSpin (external
link )
More
information about the 1 GHz NMR spectrometer
(external
link )
The Globe and Mail published an article "Looking for life after lithium" about recent advances by Canadian researchers and entrepreneurs in creating a new generation of batteries. Gillian Goward (McMaster) was prominently featured in this article for her work towards better understanding the chemistry behind extending the recharging life of lithium ion batteries.
Read
the full article in The Globe and Mail (Canada), April 22, 2009 Wednesday
(external
link )
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The Government of Canada has announced funding of $750,000 for a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer for the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada laboratory at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown. The new spectrometer will be used primarily in plant materials, healthy foods and nutraceuticals research. The announcement was made in Charlottetown on May 22, 2009 by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture Pierre Lemieux (photo, left) on behalf of Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. |
Read
the new release by the Government of Canada (external
link )
Our congratulations to Chris
Kirby (photo, right), a Physical Chemist and NMR Specialist with Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada, and to his colleagues !
Photo
credit: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The 55th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS) will be held at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) on August 9-12, 2009. The conference will feature a special NMR Symposium in honour of Professor Rod Wasylishen.
The conference will also have a fantastic social program including the Magical Dinner with Canada's Magic Champion Eric Leclerc and a very popular Sunset Dinner Cruise of the Thousand Islands.
The abstract submission for oral and poster presentations is now open and will last until June 1, 2009.
ICASS offers a special discount for early registration which is available until June 1, 2009.
Please
check the ICASS conference website for details: http://www.icass.ca/2009/
Or
contact the NMR Symposium organizer, Gang Wu, for more information
http://www.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/Wu/
Two NMR symposia and a workshop will be highlights of the 92nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition meeting in Hamilton.
Gillian Goward and Alex Bain, of McMaster University, have organized a symposium
on Materials and Magnetic Resonance, mainly focused on Solid-State
NMR.
PT7 - Materials and Magnetic Resonance
Sunday May 31 - Monday June 1, AM
http://abstracts.csc2009.ca/vs010074.htm
Giuseppe Melacini, also at McMaster, has put together an excellent program
in Biomolecular NMR.
BM2 - Biomolecular NMR
Monday June 1, PM - Tuesday June 2
http://abstracts.csc2009.ca/vs002010.htm
Please note that this year two NMR symposia have been scheduled back-to-back.
Plan your trip accordingly and don't miss this rare opportunity to attend
both NMR symposia at CSC!
The
CSC 2009 conference program is now available online
http://abstracts.csc2009.ca/
The
National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids and Bruker
Canada are pleased to present the 4th Annual Solid-State NMR Workshop
prior to CSC 2009 in Hamilton. The workshop will take place on Saturday afternoon,
May 30, 2009.
http://nmr900.ca/events_e.html
Dear Colleague,
The organizing committee and I would like to invite you to attend the 51st Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry which will be held July 19 - July 23, 2009. The conference site is the Snowmass Conference Center in Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado.
The NMR Symposium will focus on the recent development of solid-state NMR techniques and applications. The symposium consists of oral and poster sessions as well as an evening dinner for NMR symposium attendees and vendors. We are pleased to announce that this year's Vaughan Lecturer is Professor Kurt Zilm from Yale University. Other invited speakers include:
Marc
Baldus (Utrecht)
Tim Cross (NHML, Tallahassee)
Mark Conradi (WU, St. Louis)
Gary Drobny (UW, Seattle)
Melinda Duer (Cambridge)
Matthias Ernst (ETH, Zurich)
Cynthia Jameson (UI, Chicago)
Alexej Jerschow (NYU)
Arno Kentgens (Nijmegen)
Vladimir Ladizhansky (Guelph)
Klaus Mueller (Stuttgart)
Jeff Reimer (UC, Berkeley)
Jake Schaefer (WU, St. Louis)
Hans Thomann (ExxonMobil)
Jeremy Titman (Nottingham)
Yue Wu (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Gang Wu (Queen's, Kingston)
In addition to invited and promoted talks there will be two poster sessions
providing a more relaxed environment for the dissemination of the latest results.
An evening symposium dinner will provide an additional opportunity for attendees
to meet and further discuss their scientific work while also allowing representatives
from the NMR vendors to discuss NMR problems as well as to promote their latest
technological advancements and products.
The
deadline for submitting poster abstracts is June 15, 2009. For details
of online abstract submission visit
http://www.rockychem.com/abstract.htm
June
25th
is the deadline for early online registration at
http://www.rockychem.com/registration.htm
Finally, you may want to reserve your room at the Silvertree Hotel before the June 25 deadline to obtain the negotiated conference discount:
The
Silvertree Hotel
100 Elbert Lane
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
(800)
525-9402 or (970) 923-3520
Online reservations (Enter Group Code RMCAC09)
https://reservations.synxis.com/LBE/Rez.aspx?hotel=11119&lang=1
We
look forward to seeing you this July in Colorado.
Philip J. Grandinetti, Chair (NMR Symposium)
This year Bruker BioSpin will host an all day event consisting of Solid-State NMR Workshop and a Seminar. This event will take place on the Sunday prior to the Rocky Mountain Conference. If you are planning to be in Colorado on July 19, we hope you will join us.
Register
now for the Solid State NMR workshop and seminar (to
register).
Agenda
9:00 Breakfast & Registration
9:30 Welcome, Dr. Jochem Struppe
9:40 Solid State NMR on dynamic molecular assemblies, Prof. Marc Baldus,
Utrecht University
10:15 Very High Temperature NMR - Applications and Hardware, Dr. Sebastian
Wegner
10:35 Advances in High-Resolution 1H Solid State NMR at High Field
and Very-Fast MAS, Prof. Luis Mafra, University of Aveiro
11:00 Break
11:15 Solid State NMR Probes, latest Developments, Dr. Stefan Steuernagel
11:35 Li-Argyrodites: Insights into a New Exciting Ion Conductor, Dr.
Barbara Koch
11:55 Interactions of membrane proteins and lipids with water studied
with solid-state NMR, Prof. Mei Hong
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Progress Report on 263 GHz Solids DNP Spectrometer, Dr. Shane
Pawsey
1:45- 4:00 Workshop on Mathematical Methods for Data Analysis
1:45 Mathematical Methods: Floquet Theory, Prof. Matthias Ernst, ETH
Zurich
2:15 Dynamics of large nuclear spin systems from low-order correlations
in Liouville space, Dr. Mark Butler, ENS Lyon
2:55 Biosolids NMR experimental setup strategies, Dr. Jochem Struppe
You are invited to the 20th Solid-State NMR Varian Workshop prior to the 51st Rocky Mountain Conference in Snowmass.
Learn the newest Solid-State NMR applications and techniques, and how Varian's Solid-State technology can provide ultimate performance in a wide range of research and routine applications for your laboratory.
When:
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.
Where:
The Silver Tree Hotel
100 Elbert Lane
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
Limited space. Registration required. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided.
Registration is free of charge, but required prior to the event (to
register).
Workshop Agenda
7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast Buffet
8:30 a.m. Sessions
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Sessions
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Hands-on Solids Workshop Sessions: Solids MAS probe technology,
Solids MAS spinning technology, VnmrJ™ for Solids
Tom Benzel, Varian Inc.
Canadian Solid-State NMR research is front and center at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference at the University of New England, in Biddeford, Maine. Two key lectures in the “NMR of Materials” session are to be given by Rod Wasylishen (University of Alberta) and Joe Zwanziger (Dalhousie University).
Magnetic
Resonance Gordon Research Conference
June 14-19, 2009, Biddeford, ME
Registration deadline May 24, 2009
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=magres
Jianfeng Zhu, Nick Trefiak, Tom Woo, Yining Huang, "A 47/49Ti Solid-State NMR Study of Layered Titanium Phosphates at Ultrahigh Magnetic Field," Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113 (2009) 10029–10037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp901235w
Kudos to them and to all our users who continue to impress the international NMR community with the high level of solid-state NMR research in Canada.
See other research publications enabled by the 900 NMR Facility here.
Our sincere congratulations to all the winners of the 2009 NSERC competitions in the Discovery Grants Program (DG), Research Tools and Instruments Grants (RTI), the Major Resources Support Program (MRS) and Scholarship programs.
A
team of six researchers from l'Université
Laval, including Michèle Auger, Freddy Kleitz, Jean-François
Morin, Thierry Ollevier, Jean-François Paquin and Anna Ritcey, have
received $132,922 in NSERC RTI funding for a triple resonance 4 mm CP/MAS
19F/1H/X probehead and accessories for solid-state NMR spectrometer.
David Bryce (University of Ottawa) received NSERC RTI funding for laboratory equipment (glovebox).
Becky Chapman (University of Ottawa) has been awarded a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship. She joins Cory Widdifield as the second member of Dave Bryce's group to receive this prestigious scholarship.
The National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids has received NSERC MRS funding for the next five years.
Share your success with the Canadian NMR community (E-mail).
Michael Hunger has edited a special "Solid State NMR in Catalysis" issue of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (vol. 35, issue 2). Among authors are many renown personae in the field including Yining Huang (University of Western Ontario), who is reporting their recent research in studying formation of molecular sieves.
Z. Yan, B. Chen, Y. Huang, "A solid-state NMR study of the formation of molecular sieve SAPO-34," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 35 (2009) 49-60. (invited publication, special issue "Solid State NMR in Catalysis") http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2008.12.006
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The
latest issue of Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy is
dedicated to various aspects of NMR in molecular biology. The first
Chapter in this six-chapter volume is written by a team from the University
of Calgary reviewing modern solution and solid-state NMR experiments
to characterize antimicrobial peptides and mechanisms of their action. Evan F. Haney and Hans J. Vogel, "NMR of Antimicrobial Peptides," Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 65 (2009) 1-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0066-4103(08)00201-9 |
Dear Researchers,
The registration deadline for the 5th Annual McGill Biophysical Chemistry Symposium has been extended from April 17th to April 24th. This symposium will take place on Tuesday May 5th with Prof. Taekjip Ha from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as the plenary speaker. Researchers from McGill, Concordia, Laval, U Montreal, U Ottawa, U Sherbrooke, and the National Research Council in Ottawa will present talks. The all-day event will feature a poster session for students as well as a complimentary lunch and refreshments. (PDF poster, 350 kB)
Registration is FREE OF CHARGE but please do register soon, as space is limited. Please email your name, your contact information, and your poster abstract to "biophys.chem at mcgill.ca". All inquiries can also be sent to this address. Hope to see you all there.
Best Regards,
Tony Mittermaier
Anthony
Mittermaier
(Chemistry, Chemical Biology)
http://www.chemistry.mcgill.ca/
A
research team from the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences (NRC
Canada) and their colleagues from Oak Ridge, Stony-Brook, and Argonne, are
reporting synthesis and characterization of a new structure of gas hydrate,
previously known only hypothetically. Static and magic angle spinning 129Xe
NMR was instrumental in this research, and had provided strong confirmation
of the structural analysis.
L. Yang, C.A. Tulk, D.D. Klug, I.L. Moudrakovski, C.I. Ratcliffe, J.A. Ripmeester, B.C. Chakoumakos, L. Ehm, C.D. Martin, and J.B. Parise, "Synthesis and characterization of a new structure of gas hydrate," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (2009) 6060-6064. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809342106
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David Bryce (University of Ottawa) has been promoted with tenure to the rank of Associate Professor. Join us in congratulating Dave with this well deserved promotion! |
FREDERICTON,
New Brunswick, March 19, 2009 — The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister
of State (Science and Technology), today offered his congratulations to the
Canada Research Chair at the University of New Brunswick, whose position was
recently renewed.
Bruce Balcom is the renewed Canada Research Chair in Materials Science Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Dr. Balcom's research involves the application of new methods of MRI to a broad array of problems in materials science. This research will help develop and improve a new materials research capability in Canada and facilitate the introduction and development of new processes and products.
“Dr. Balcom, one of Canada's leading scientists and engineers, will generate the knowledge we need to solve tough problems,” said Minister of State Goodyear. “That is why we are pleased to announce the renewal of Dr. Balcom's Canada Research Chair in Materials Science MRI here at the University of New Brunswick.”
As Director of the University of New Brunswick's MRI (UNB MRI) Centre, Dr. Balcom and his team have invented a family of new MRI methods. The successful application of the centre's new MRI techniques, with allied hardware and software innovations, has opened new vistas in material science research. Detecting how water and oil move through rock and concrete is one of the many practical applications of Dr. Balcom's work, which is already being used by the oil and gas industry.
The UNB MRI Centre is the only material science MRI laboratory in Canada and the only university-based laboratory of its type in North America. The birthplace of the Single-Point Ramped Imaging with T1 Enhancement (SPRITE) technique, it is considered the leading laboratory worldwide in many aspects of material science MRI.
On
February 23, 2009, the Government of Canada announced an investment of $120.4
million to fund 134 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs in 37 Canadian universities.
The research chairs will conduct research in variety of fields of direct interest
to Canadians. This investment also includes $6.6 million for the Canada Foundation
for Innovation to support research infrastructure.
Read
the full press release by the Government of Canada
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?m=/index&nid=437979
Photo
from
http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/science/physics/mri/
Lewis Kay and colleagues from the University of Toronto have published an article in Biophysical Journal reviewing recently developed NMR relaxation dispersion technique and its applications to protein folding research.
P.
Neudecker, P. Lundström, L.E. Kay, "Relaxation Dispersion NMR
Spectroscopy as a Tool for Detailed Studies of Protein Folding," Biophysical
Journal 96 (2009) 2045-2054. (review)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.3907
A research team from the Ontario Cancer Institute and the University of Toronto has developed a real-time, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)–based assay to monitor the intrinsic GTPase activity of the small guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) Rheb. This method can now be used to gain further understanding of the mechanisms of action of other GTPases and their GAP partners.
C.B. Marshall, J. Ho, C. Buerger, M.J. Plevin, Guang-Yao Li, Z. Li, M. Ikura, and V. Stambolic, "Characterization of the Intrinsic and TSC2-GAP–Regulated GTPase Activity of Rheb by Real-Time NMR," Science Signaling 2 (#55) (2009) ra3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2000029
Abstract: http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sigtrans;2/55/ra3
Editor's
summary:
http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sigtrans;2/55/ra3
Science Signaling is a weekly AAAS journal as well as an online resource and information management tool that enables experts and novices in cell signaling to find, organize, and utilize information relevant to processes of cellular regulation. As of September 2008, Science Signaling is adding original research articles to the weekly journal. Science Signaling publishes research that represents a major advance in cell signaling, including key research papers in the rapidly expanding areas of signaling networks, systems biology, synthetic biology, computation and modeling of regulatory pathways, and drug discovery.
More
about Science Signaling:
http://stke.sciencemag.org/about/
A
new Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Facility at the National Research Council
Institute for Marine Biosciences (NRC-IMB) (Halifax, N.S.) is now officially
open. The opening ceremony on February 19 was officiated by Dr. Martha
Crago, Vice-President, Research, Dalhousie University; the Honourable
Gerald Keddy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International
Trade; and Dr. Roman Szumski, Vice-President, Life Sciences, NRC.
Read
the news release by NRC Canada
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/newsroom/news/2009/health-ns09-nr_e.html
This facility has been established in partnership between NRC Canada, Dalhousie University, and the Federal Government to support health-care research in the Atlantic region. It houses a new 700 MHz Bruker Avance III NMR spectrometer equipped with the world's first 1.7 mm (40 uL) cryoprobe for fields > 600 MHz.
Find more about the Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Facility at NRC-IMB in the Winter 2009 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin.
Web:
NRC-IMB
http://imb-ibm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
Government of Canada has announced today an investment of $120.4 million to fund 134 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs in 37 Canadian universities. This includes renewal of two Tier 1 Chairs involved in magnetic resonance research.
Raymond Laflamme (University of Waterloo) Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Quantum Information
Bruce Balcom (University of New Brunswick) Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Materials Science and MRI. Bruce has also been awarded a complementary CFI funding under the Leaders Opportunity Fund.
Our sincere congratulations to Raymond, Bruce and their colleagues with this well-deserved recognition.
http://www.chairs.gc.ca/web/media/releases/2009/february_e.asp
Read a feature report by CBC on quantum computing research at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/09/f-quantum-computing.htm
Recent JACS Communication by Gang Wu and Irene Kwan (Wu's group, Queen's University) is highlighted as News of the week in Chemical & Engineering News as an important contribution to our understanding of self-assembly of nucleotide monomers. In their research Gang and Irene have used a variety of liquid-state NMR techniques and computations to characterize guanosine 5'-monophosphate (5'-GMP) solutions in the presence of sodium cations. The authors have observed spontaneous formation of well-defined right-handed helical 5'-GMP structures, the finding which may have potential implications for prebiotic chemistry theories.
Read
the news story in C&EN (picture credit)
Issue February 16, 2009, p.10, News of the week:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i07/8707notw7.html
G. Wu and I. Kwan, "The helical structure of disodium guanosine 5’-monophosphate self-assembly in neutral solution," Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (2009) 3180–3182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja809258y
Our
colleagues at the NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon are
celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Institute. It has also been 60 years
since the National Research Council Canada first established the NRC Prairie
Regional Laboratory, which in 1983 was officially transformed into NRC-PBI.
NRC-PBI is recognized
worldwide for its research in agricultural biotechnology that utilizes plants
to produce bioproducts, healthy foods and supplements for the benefit of environmental
and human health. PBI is a major research centre for plant biosciences in
Canada, with expertise in genomics, metabolic pathways, gene expression, genetic
transformation, structural biology and natural product chemistry. Read
the press release by NRC Canada
NMR spectroscopy plays a prominent role in many fundamental and applied research projects undertaken by PBI researchers and their collaborators. PBI currently houses two recently upgraded NMR instruments: a 500 MHz Bruker Avance system for multinuclear high-resolution studies equipped with a CryoProbe, and a 360 MHz Avance wide-bore system for work in solids, including magic-angle spinning (MAS) and microimaging.
NMR
personalities at PBI:
Sue Abrams has been recently appointed to the position of PBI's Research Director. Sue uses NMR spectroscopy in plant metabolic pathway studies.
Michèle Loewen employs high-resolution NMR along with a wide range of other techniques to learn about molecular mechanisms of membrane protein actions.
Shelley Forgeron has recently joined NRC-PBI as an NMR Facility Manager.
" .. August 2008 saw the retirement of our longtime NMR manager Mike
Fuerth, who had been in charge of NMR spectrometers and other various
instruments since 1972. Mike stayed on to overlap with our new NMR manager,
Matt Revington, and help him get settled in..."
Read the full Guest Editorial by Robert Schurko in the Winter 2009 Issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin.
The
Chemical Biophysics Symposium is a student organized conference now
in its eight year of providing an informal venue for discussions of topics
bridging the physical and biological sciences. Past Symposia have been marked
by a strong multi-disciplinary turnout including biologists, chemists, physicists,
mathematicians, and other more exotic species; lively (but good-natured!)
debates during panel discussions and question periods; a lavish Saturday evening
banquet; and stellar lineups of prominent invited speakers. We hope to continue
this tradition this coming Spring (University
of Toronto, April 24-26, 2009), and we encourage all interested faculty,
postdocs, and students to attend.
Terry
Allen (University of Alberta)
Harold Craighead, (Cornell University)
Roy Duncan (Dalhousie University)
Michael Ellison (University of Alberta)
Gerhard Hummer (National Institute of Health)
Lewis Kay (University of Toronto)
Igor Medintz (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
The registration/ abstract submission is now open. Abstract submission deadline is March 24, 2009.
Please visit our website at http://www.chembiophys.ca
Those attending the 50th ENC Conference in Asilomar, remember to register and attend two traditional pre-ENC NMR meetings:
Varian
Users' Meeting before the 50th ENC
March 27-28, 2009, Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, Palo Alto, CA
http://www.varianinc.com/
Bruker
Pre-ENC NMR Workshops and Breakfast Symposium
March 28-29, 2009, Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, CA
http://www.bruker-biospin.com/enc2009.html
This
year ENC celebrates its Golden Anniversary, and the organizing committee is
planning a number of special events, including a gala banquet at the Monterey
Aquarium and other anniversary-related activities, to make this meeting memorable
and enjoyable by all participants.
50th
ENC
March 29 - April 3, 2009, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California
http://www.enc-conference.org/
Call for nominations:
Nominations for the 2010 Vaughan Lecturer are solicited from the solid-state
NMR community. Submissions should describe the nominee's scientific accomplishments
and contributions in the field of solid-state NMR. Nominations must be submitted
as single Word or Acrobat PDF files, with a 500 word maximum, plus a maximum
of 5 references to publications or patents. No secondary letters are needed,
but nominations should be co-signed by multiple members of the solid-state
NMR community. Nominations must be emailed before March 31, 2009 to
vaughanaward "at" ssnmr.org
The 2010 Vaughan lecturer selection committee is comprised of the five most recent Vaughan lecturers: Jeff Reimer (Berkeley, Chair), Robin K. Harris, Lucio Frydman, Malcolm H. Levitt, Robert Tycko, Clare Grey.
Nominations for the Vaughan Lecturer are solicited from the solid-state NMR community by the Selection Committee, and the awardee is chosen from these nominations by the Selection Committee. The winner is notified prior to the meeting and announced to the community during the last session of the RMC SSNMR symposium.
51st
Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry
July 19-23, 2009, the Snowmass Conference Center and Silvertree Hotel in Snowmass,
Colorado
http://www.rockychem.com/
In today's paper in Nature a research team from Switzerland reports novel approach of performing NMR and MRI experiments via travelling radio-frequency waves sent and received by an antenna instead of traditional RF coils.
Nature editorial: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457971a
D.O. Brunner, N. De Zanche, J. Fröhlich, J. Paska & K.P. Pruessmann, "Travelling-wave nuclear magnetic resonance," Nature 457 (2009) 994-998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07752
Last week our colleagues from the University of Ottawa took delivery of a Bruker AVANCE III 400 NMR spectrometer for solids (photos), to complement the Bruker AVANCE III 200 NMR spectrometer installed there in September 2008. This major hardware acquisition has been made possible thanks to the CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund award to Prof. David Bryce (Chemistry). Dave is excited to explore new opportunities afford by a double-resonance double-rotation (DOR) probe for the 400 MHz instrument!
In total there are now seven NMR instruments at the uOttawa campus (8, including the Bruker AVANCE II 900 at the National NMR Facility for Solids), to keep Glenn and Cheryl very busy for a long time to come.
web
(NMR Facility): http://www.science.uottawa.ca/nmr/
Scott Kroeker is among several other researchers from the University of Manitoba to share more than $2.3 million in funding from the Manitoba Government. The funding is provided through the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund to support research projects related to health, environment and advanced technologies.
Read the press release by the University of Manitoba: http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/
web:
Scott
Kroeker (Department of Chemistry)
Lakeland College (Lloydminster, Alberta) has purchased an NMR spectrometer among other modern laboratory equipment for its university studies program. The NMR spectrometer will be used to advance learning and training opportunities for first and second-year students taking organic chemistry.
Read the press release by Lakeland College: http://www.lakelandcollege.ca/news/news01090901.aspx
The Russell Varian prize honors the memory of the pioneer behind the first commercial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers and co-founder of Varian Associates. The prize is awarded to a researcher based on a single innovative contribution (a single paper, patent, lecture, or piece of hardware) that has proven of high and broad impact on state-of-the-art NMR technology. The prize aims to award the initial contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology of great importance in state-of-the-art NMR. It is sponsored by Varian Inc. and carries a monetary award of 15,000 Euro. The award ceremony will take place at EUROMAR 2009 in Göteborg, Sweden, July 5-9, 2009. The deadline for nominations is February 15, 2009.
For nomination guidelines see: http://www.euromar2009.com/prize.html
The Raymond Andrew Prize is awarded by the AMPERE Bureau in memory of Professor Dr. Raymond Andrew and to honour his pioneering work in the field of magnetic resonance. The prize is awarded to young scientists for an outstanding PhD thesis in magnetic resonance.
For
2009 the AMPERE Prize Committee is seeking your help in searching for qualified
candidates who completed their dissertation during the period of
2007/2008. The prize will be presented during the EUROMAR
2009 in Göteborg (Sweden) from 5th to 9th of July 2009. You
are kindly invited to submit nominations by e-mail to
andrewprice
"at" nmr.phys.chem.ethz.ch
Suggestions
must be received by 15th February 2009 and should include
the following documents:
•
Nomination letter
• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications and presentations at conferences
• PhD thesis in PDF
The thesis should be written in English. In exceptional cases, the thesis may also be submitted in triplicate as a hardcopy to the AMPERE Secretariat. Submissions that arrive too late will automatically be transferred to the next year. The prize committee will reconsider excellent contributions for two years in a row.
For
a list of past Andrew Prize winners see:
http://www.ampere.ethz.ch/andrew_prize.htm
For nomination guidelines see: http://www.euromar2009.com/prize.htm
From early 2005 to March, 2008 there were published more than 3000 research papers employing solid-state NMR. To review all these publications in one place would be a formidable and unmanageable task. Cecil Dybowski and Shi Bai from the University of Delaware decided to highlight only some of these papers in their recent review in Analytical Chemistry. Admittedly limited in their choices, the authors discuss six main areas of development of solid-state NMR in the last three years, including
- Methodology and Technical Developments
- Materials and Nanotechnology
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Catalysis and Surfaces
- Quadrupolar Nuclei
- Biomolecules
This review gives the reader a glimpse into the vast field of modern solid-state NMR spectroscopy. It also lists some of the most recent solid-state NMR reviews for each topic you may have missed.
C. Dybowski and S. Bai, "Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy," Analytical Chemistry 80 (2008) 4295–4300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac800573y
This website has recently been updated to streamline and simplify browsing. Most affected by changes are "Canadian NMR Research" pages. We hope you enjoy browsing these re-designed pages. Let us know if you have any suggestions or comments. It will take time for Google and other search engines to update their databases, until then some re-named links may appear broken from outside.
We would like to take this opportunity and to extend our best wishes for the New Year to the Canadian NMR Community and our colleagues abroad. Happy Holidays !
The NMR Facility Steering Committee
Encyclopedia
of Magnetic Resonance: NMR Crystallography (Dec
26/08)
John Wiley & Sons is in the process of creating an ultimate online Magnetic Resonance knowledge resource. Based on the Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance printed in 1996 (volumes 1-8) and in 2002 (volume 9) this online encyclopedia is currently undergoing major revision and expansion boldly aiming at becoming the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on Magnetic Resonance (to browse the list of topics). Charged with this challenging task are two current Editors-in-Chief, Canada's own Roderick Wasylishen (University of Alberta) and Robin Harris from the U.K.
Not
the most intuitively tucked under "Applications in Chemistry" is
the recently updated topic on the emerging field of "NMR Crystallography".
NMR Crystallography incorporates solid-state NMR data into the crystal structure
determination process in a variety of materials. This approach becomes particularly
important for materials that are difficult to grow as single crystals
suitable for single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Canadian NMR research
in this area is represented by four excellent review articles:
Josef
W. Zwanziger, "Geometric Phases"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0189
Darren
H. Brouwer, "Interplay between Solid-State NMR and Single-Crystal
X-Ray Diffraction"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1041
Serge
Lacelle, "Multiple Quantum Coherences in Extended Dipolar Coupled
Spin Networks"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0332
David
L. Bryce, "Tensor Interplay"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1039
Printed edition of the Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1996,
2002) is available to users and visitors of the 900 NMR Facility.
(Table of Contents, pdf
file, 848 kB)
John Walter and colleagues from the NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences
(NRC-IMB, Halifax, Nova Scotia) took part in a multinational project aimed
to study comparability and precision of NMR results independently obtained
by different NMR labs. Seven labs in four countries, U.S.A., Canada, U.K.,
and Australia, analyzed the same set of samples related to environmental metabolomics.
Data obtained by each laboratory was then subjected to statistical analysis
to evaluate reliability of NMR in environmental studies. To learn more about
this important project:
M.R. Viant, D.W. Bearden, J.G.Bundy, I.W. Burton, T.W. Collette, D.R. Ekman, V. Ezernieks, T.K. Karakach, C.Y. Lin, S. Rochfort, J.S. De Ropp, Q. Teng, R.S. Tjeerdema, J.A. Walter, H. Wu, "International NMR-Based Environmental Metabolomics Intercomparison Exercise," Environmental Science & Technology 43 (2009) 219–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es802198z
John Walter, NRC-IMB: http://www.imb.nrc.ca/programs/nmr/index_e.php
A research team from the University of Toronto Scarborough lead by Myrna Simpson reports accelerated rate of decomposition of some soil organics and accumulation of others due to soil warming.
X. Feng, A.J. Simpson, K.P. Wilson, D.D. Williams and M.J. Simpson, "Increased cuticular carbon sequestration and lignin oxidation in response to soil warming," Nature Geoscience 1 (2008) 836-839. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo361
This paper has generated considerable media attention including a feature interview "Soil Alert" with Myrna on Daily Planet (aired on Nov 27, 2008).
https://webapps-new.utsc.utoronto.ca/
http://www.spectroscopynow.com/
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/
web : Myrna Simpson's Group (external link)
SpinWorks
is a freeware software package for
the processing and display of 1D and 2D data.
Also included are modules for the simulation
and analysis of second order spectra, and
dynamic (exchange broadened) NMR spectra.
While many processing packages seem targeted to the biological NMR community, SpinWorks focus is synthetic organic and inorganic chemists. However, SpinWorks does just as good a job at processing 2D BioNMR data as any other package that I am aware of. An effort has been made to create a coherent easy to follow user interface, and to obtain as much processing information as possible from the data set. For many of 2D experiments, simply clicking the "Process" button is all you need to properly process your 2D data.
These
versions of SpinWorks are currently available for download:
SpinWorks 2.5.5 This is a Win32 version that should run on anything
from Windows 95 and up. It also runs under WINE on Linux and under assorted
Windows emulators on Macs. Supported data formats are Bruker
(UXNMR/XwinNMR/Topspin) and Varian (VNMR/VNMRJ) for 1D and 2D. Tecmag (1D
and 2D) and JEOL (1D only) are supported, but not thoroughly tested. 1D spectra
can also be saved and read in JCAMP-DX format. SpinWorks 2 is in maintenance
mode (no further development).
SpinWorks
3 Runs under the Microsoft .NET runtime environment. Hopefully it will
run on other .NET environments as well, such as the Linux mono package (testing
under way). The aim is eventually to have the program platform independent
and open source. Fully supported data formats are Bruker (UXNMR/XwinNMR/Topspin)
and Varian (VNMR/VNMRJ). JCAMP-DX is supported for 1D only. SpinWorks 3 can
also read simulated FIDs and spectra produced by the SIMPSON program.
SpinWorks 3.1 A beta test version of this release will be available
very soon (target date: Nov 1, 2008). This release adds the ability to read
2D and 3D processed data from NMRPIPE, Hilbert transforms, and a bandfitting
(deconvolution) feature. This release also addresses a number of issues resulting
from the use of “,” instead of “.” as the decimal separator
in many parts of the world, and several other upgrades and bug corrections.
For more information, documentation and downloads visit
http://www.umanitoba.ca/chemistry/nmr/spinworks/index.html
-
Kirk
Kirk Marat, Ph.D., NMR Facility Manager
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, CANADA
C#, What C++ should have been
ph. (204) 474-6259 FAX: (204) 474-7608
PCCP has announced a themed issue on Solid-State NMR which will be guest-edited by Paul Hodgkinson (Durham, UK) and Stephen Wimperis (Glasgow, UK). This issue will be published in August 2009, to coincide with the 6th Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR in September 2009. The themed issue will be displayed at the conference, maximizing the visibility of published works. PCCP is welcoming submissions to this themed issue.
PCCP: "There have been rapid developments in solid-state NMR over the past decade, with fast magic angle spinning, high magnetic fields, and new experimental and computational methods opening up new areas of application. The aim of this themed issue is present a snapshot of the state-of-the-art of solid-state NMR techniques and their application to physical chemistry and chemical physics, for the benefit of both expert and general readers. Submissions, either communications or full papers, should be high-quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research, containing important new physical insight."
Deadline
for Submission: 01 April 2009
for
more information:
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/CP/News/2008/SolidStateNMR.asp
This
is to announce the release of an open source program for the calculation of
product operators, wxProdOp. The current version is 0.92 and contains
several features for the simplification of state expressions produced after
several pulses and evolution periods. The program currently runs under both
Linux and Windows and has very modest hardware requirements. Please visit
http://chem4823.usask.ca/nmr/wxProdOp.html
for more information and downloads. Also, there is a very detailed manual
available that fully describes the current capabilities of the program.
http://chem4823.usask.ca/nmr/wxProdOp.pdf
Let me know what you think:
Dr. Keith Brown
Department of Chemistry
Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Center
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
http://chem4823.usask.ca/kbrown.html
Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Center (ARMRC) organizes the 3rd Annual Fall NMR Workshop to be held on Saturday, November 15, 2008 in the Chemistry Building, Dalhousie University (Halifax). The workshop will consist of seminars from ARMRC staff emphasizing practical aspects of NMR, contributed oral and poster presentations, Facility tours with detailed introductions on research methods (download workshop program).
Glenn Facey, a manager of the NMR Facility at the University of Ottawa, shares his expertise in superconducting NMR magnets with readers of "Superconductor Week" newsletter, March 24, 2008 Vol. 22, No. 4, pages 1-3. More at the University of Ottawa NMR Facility Web Site (external link).
Busy
times for Glenn Facey and David Bryce (University of Ottawa);
the new Avance III 200 console for solids has just been successfully installed
(photos),
and the brand new Avance III 400 MHz solid-state NMR instrument is coming
in November. Congratulations ! and many thanks to Canada Foundation for
Innovation (CFI)
for generously supporting NMR research in Canada.
web
(Bryce Group):
http://www.science.uottawa.ca/%7Edbryc159/index.html
web (NMR Lab):
http://www.science.uottawa.ca/nmr/
In this review article Robert Morris (University of Toronto) tabulates structures and NMR properties of almost 200 iron, ruthenium and osmium complexes containing dihydrogen, and presents a variety of interesting trends based on the H-H bond length.
R.H. Morris, "Dihydrogen, dihydride and in between: NMR and structural properties of iron group complexes," Coordination Chemistry Reviews 252 (2008) 2381-2394. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2008.01.010
web (Morris Group): http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/~rmorris
Pekka Pyykkö, "Year-2008 nuclear quadrupole moments," Molecular Physics (2008) in print. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268970802018367
The 51st Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry will take place July 19-23, 2009 at the Snowmass Conference Center and Silvertree Hotel in Snowmass, Colorado. This is a change from the previously announced 2009 dates originally intended for Estes Park, Colorado. Please mark your calendars accordingly. See the web-site for details : http://www.rockychem.com
Three high-profile papers published recently by Canadian researchers
G.S.
Ananchenko, I.L. Moudrakovski, A.W. Coleman, and
J.A. Ripmeester, "A Channel-Free Soft-Walled Capsular Calixarene
Solid for Gas Adsorption," Angewandte Chemie International Edition
47 (2008) 5616-5618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200800071
P. Vallurupalli, D.F. Hansen, and L.E. Kay, "Structures of invisible, excited protein states by relaxation dispersion NMR spectroscopy," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (2008) 11766–11771. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0804221105
H. Mizuno, T.K. Mal, M. Walchli, A. Kikuchi, T. Fukano, R. Ando, J. Jeyakanthan, J. Taka, Y. Shiro, M. Ikura, A. Miyawaki, "Light-dependent regulation of structural flexibility in a photochromic fluorescent protein," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (2008) 9227-9232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0709599105
See other recent Canadian NMR publications here.
Join us in congratulating Gang Wu (Queen's University) who has been promoted
to the rank of Professor !
At
Queen's Department of Chemistry Prof. Gang Wu carries out an extensive
research program in Physical and Computational chemistry involving solid-state
NMR. Gang Wu is also a frequent user of the 900 NMR Facility in Ottawa.
web: http://www.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/Wu/index.htm
Photo from : http://www.chem.queensu.ca
Natalie Goto (University of Ottawa) has been awarded a Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award to study Bacterial Cell Division using NMR spectroscopy.
From the citation: "Bacteria divide symmetrically at the cell mid-point to produce two equal-sized cells, but how do bacteria know where the middle is? Dr. Natalie Goto's research team will focus on one of the proteins important for this "middle-finding" function. Their work will improve the understanding of bacterial cell division, the disruption of which is sought in the development of antibiotics." (more here)
web: http://www.science.uottawa.ca/~ngoto488/
Scott
Kroeker (University of Manitoba) returned from a year-long sabbatical
at the University of Cambridge. Working in the Department of Earth Sciences
with Ian Farnan, he used high-temperature NMR to study phase separation
processes in model nuclear waste glasses and melts.
web: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/%7Ekroekers/index.html
August 5, 2008
"It
appears that this summer has been full of events (personally and professionally)
that are, in one way or another, associated with Rod Wasylishen.
At the end of May, I attended the annual conference
of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) in Edmonton, Alberta. Rod organized
a special two-day symposium devoted to Advances in Solid-State NMR, which
many of Rod’s current and former students participated in ..."
Read the full Guest Editorial by Gang Wu in the Summer 2008 issue of the Canadian NMR Research News Bulletin
Gerald
Buchanan, chancellor's professor of Chemistry at Carleton University (Ottawa),
has announced his retirement. Most of his very successful research career
at Carleton, since 1971, Gerald dedicated to advancing the field of NMR spectroscopy
and magnetic resonance imaging. Gerald will stay at Carleton part-time to
continue his teaching and research.
Read the feature story about Gerald Buchanan in the spring issue of EUREKA, the Newsletter of the Carleton's Faculty of Science (external link).
Gerald Buchanan discusses the science behind possible relations between attraction and smell in the Spring 2008 issue of the Carleton University Magazine (external link).
Photo from : http://www.carleton.ca/
A research paper by our colleagues from NRC featuring results from the 900 instrument
makes the cover of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Congratulations
!
Darren H. Brouwer, Saman Alavi and John A. Ripmeester, "NMR Crystallography of p-tert-Butylcalix[4]arene Host-Guest Complexes Using 1H Complexation-Induced Chemical Shifts," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 10 (2008) 3857-3860. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b805326j
We
are delighted to learn that Rod Wasylishen's Tier I Canada Research Chair
in Physical Chemistry has been renewed for a period of seven years (official
announcement). Rod's many scientific contributions are well-known to the
Canadian NMR community and do not require a special introduction. Besides
being a prominent world-renowned NMR researcher and a
mentor to many of us, Rod is also an active member of the 900 NMR Facility
Steering Committee. Please join us in extending our warmest congratulations
to
Rod and his family.
Photo from : http://www.ualberta.ca
A
research paper by Cheryl Arrowsmith (Ontario Cancer Institute, University
of Toronto) (external
link) and colleagues is highlighted on the cover and in a
commentary in a recent issue of PNAS.
Y. Shen, O. Lange, F. Delaglio, P. Rossi, J. M. Aramini, Gaohua Liu, A. Eletsky, Y. Wu, K.K. Singarapu, A. Lemak, A. Ignatchenko, C.H. Arrowsmith, T. Szyperski, G.T. Montelione, D. Baker, and A. Bax, "Consistent blind protein structure generation from NMR chemical shift data," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (2008) 4685-4690. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800256105
A
feature interview with Tedros Bezabeh, a physical chemist at the NRC Institute
for Biodiagnostics (Winnipeg, Manitoba) (external
link). Tedros applies NMR spectroscopy and MRI for the early detection
and non-invasive diagnosis of cancer.
Photo from : http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
Today's
front cover of the
Cape Breton Post features a story about NMR research at Cape Breton
University (Sydney, Nova Scotia). A new high-field NMR spectrometer for
liquids has been recently acquired by CBU to support research in the Department
of Chemistry. Matthias
Bierenstiel, an assistant professor of chemistry, will be one of the primary
users of this instrument. This
project has been sponsored in part by Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation.
Read the full story published by the Cape Breton Post here (external link). The press release by CBU can be found here (external link).
Milestones
are special supplements published by Nature Publishing Group highlighting
various fields of science and technology. The sixth such supplement Nature
Milestones in Spin covers the story of "Spin", a topic dear
to all reading these web-pages. This very colourful and neatly arranged 48
page publication is available for free download as a PDF file (link).
April 30, 2008
Discovery Awards celebrate the research excellence of Ontario's most accomplished researchers by highlighting their individual achievements and demonstrating Ontario's attractiveness as a global research centre. Two of the four Discovery Award Recipients in 2008 are Ontario researchers working in the field of magnetic resonance, Lewis Kay (University of Toronto) in the category of Life Sciences and Medicine, and Raymond Laflamme (University of Waterloo) in the category of Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Congratulations to our colleagues !
Read the full press release here (external link).
April 30, 2008
Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC) (www.tru.ca) has received federal funding via Western Economic Diversification Canada toward the purchase of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment that will be used to train students and carry out applied research with industry. The new equipment will also provide analytical chemistry support to firms in various industry sectors in BC including mining, forestry, agriculture, nutraceuticals, and industrial biotechnology. Read the full story here (external link).
April 29, 2008
Alex Bain, McMaster (web-site)
"It
started with a chance remark from one of our senior colleagues, that it
was 1958 when McMaster received its first NMR spectrometer, a Varian DP60.
That seemed to be a good reason for a celebration, so on Friday May 2, we
are having a one-day symposium. The web site already has a
number of photos, and more will be posted.
http://nmr50.mcmaster.ca/
Two of the pioneers, Ron Gillespie (who ordered the instrument) and Russell
Bell will be there. However, we will miss two other central figures: Don Eaton
and Brian Sayer, who have both passed away. The symposium also will be the
day before a memorial in Winnipeg for Ted Schaefer, who was a great father
figure for many of us.
The 50th anniversary event has led to lots of discussion and a number of themes.
One is the progress of the field since that time..."
Read the full Guest Editorial by Alex Bain in the Spring 2008 issue of the Canadian NMR Research News Bulletin.
April 29, 2008
Read
a feature article about Valerie Robertson, an NMR Facility Manager at the
University of Guelph, in the April 2008 issue of At Guelph, the University
of Guelph's official campus newspaper (external
link).
Photo from: www.uoguelph.ca
David
Bryce (U Ottawa) has collaborated with Hélène van Melckebeke
and Jérôme Boisbouvier (CNRS, Grenoble) to reveal the molecular
origins of the high stability of HIV TAR RNA bound to its SELEX RNA aptamer.
A non-canonical loop-closing GA base pair was found to be stabilized by a network
of intersugar hydrogen bonds, which in turn accounts for the greatly reduced
dissociation constant of the complex relative to those without the GA pair.
The structure of the "kissing complex" was determined using liquid
crystal NMR spectroscopy, and represents one of the highest-resolution RNA
structures determined in solution to date.
Press release by CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France) (external link)
H. Van Melckebeke, M. Devany, C. Di Primo, F. Beaurain, J.-J. Toulme, D. L. Bryce, and J. Boisbouvier, "Liquid Crystal NMR Structure of HIV TAR RNA Bound to its SELEX RNA Aptamer Reveals the Origins of the High Stability of the Complex," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (2008) 9210-9215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0712121105
http://www.bruker-biospin.com/rmc2008.html
Beaver
Run Resort - Peak 17
620 Village Road, Breckenridge, CO
1-386-254-8200
Program
9:00 Breakfast & Registration
9:30 Welcome & Latest News, Dr. Jochem Struppe
9:45 Analyzing peptide secondary structure in complex samples with
MAS ssNMR spectroscopy, Prof. Joanna Long, University of Florida
10:15 High Speed MAS, Dr. Denis Schneider
10:30 Recent Progress in Solid State NMR at Warwick: Low Gamma Nuclei
and Double Angle Rotation, Prof. Mark Smith, University of Warwick
11:00 Break
11:15 Solid State NMR Probe News, Dr. Stefan Steuernagel
11:35 High Frequency DNP, Basic Principles and Progress, Prof. Robert
G. Griffin, MIT
12:30 Lunch in Room Peak 14
1:30 Characterization of Porous Materials by Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR
Spectroscopy, Dr. Shane Pawsey
1:45-4:00 Worshop on Mathematical Methods for Data Analysis and Experimental
Simulation
1:45 On experiment simulation and development, Prof. Len Mueller, University
of California, Riverside
2:15 Ab-initio calculations - CSA and EFG, Prof. Joe Zwanziger, Dalhousie
University, Halifax
3:00 Line-fitting, experiment simulation with DMFIT, SIMPSON and own
software, Prof. Christian Fernandez, ENSICAEN LCS, Caen
Please review the final agenda below and plan to join us for the 19th
Solid-State NMR Workshop at the 50th RMCAC in Breckenridge, Colorado
.
We have prepared a stimulating agenda that you do not want to miss!
When: July 27, 2008. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Where: Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center
620 Village Road, Breckenridge, CO 80424
Limited Space. Registration required (external link)
Meeting Agenda
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Dennis Sandoz, Varian Inc.,
Palo Alto, California
9:10 Solid-state NMR of Crystallin Aggregates, Rachel W. Martin, UC
Irvine, Irvine, California
9:35 Structures and Interactions of Membrane Proteins by Hybrid Solution
and Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
10:00 High Resolution Structure Determination by Relative Tensor Orientation,
Trent Franks, Benjamin Wylie, Heather Frericks Schmidt, Andrew Nieuwkoop,
Chad Rienstra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
10:25 Break
10:45 Solid-State NMR of Graphite Oxide and AB(1-40) Amyloid Peptide,
Medhat A. Shaibat and Yoshitaka Ishii, University of Illinois at Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
11:10 Magic Angle Spinning Studies of Microtubule-Associated Proteins
and Thioredoxin Reassemblies, Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware
11:35 Magic Angle Spinning NMR Studies of Paramagnetic Proteins, Chris
Jaroniec, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Imidazole at -130 C. A Cryogenic
pH Sensor, Paul Ellis, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland,
Washington.
1:40 Advances in Two-Dimensional Correlation Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy,
Marek Pruski, J.W. Wiench, and K. Mao, Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa
2:05 Solids Probe Technologies, John Stringer & Allen Palmer, Varian
Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado
2:30 Oxide Materials: Disordered Order and Ordered Disorder, Jonathan
Stebbins, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
2:55 An NMR Study of Benzoic Acid Adsorption on Metal Oxide Surfaces,
Ed Hagaman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
3:20 Break
3:40 "Jim Frye: A Solid NMR Career" Gary Maciel, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, Colorado
For further information and to register for the symposium, see the website:
http://chemistry.uvic.ca/viva2.htm
April 29, 2008
Our congratulations to Canadian students working in the field of NMR spectroscopy
who have been awarded 2008 “NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate
Scholarships”
Cory Widdifield – University of Ottawa, David Bryce’s group (external
link)
Irene Kwan – Queen’s University, Gang Wu's group (external
link)
March 28, 2008
Following recent trends, Bentham Open Publishers specializing in open access science and technology journals has announced The Open Magnetic Resonance Journal (ISSN: 1874-7698).
The
Open Magnetic Resonance Journal is an open access peer-review online journal,
which publishes research articles, reviews and
letters in all areas of magnetic resonance. For more information and manuscript
submission instructions visit http://bentham.org/open/tomrj/
Bentham Open carries a wide variety of other open access titles in chemistry
and physics. Please refer to Bentham Open’s website
at http://bentham.org/open/
March 25, 2008
l'UQAM has announced plans to acquire a high-resolution NMR instrument to support research at the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biological Sciences. This acquisition has been supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). From the press-release, «Avec l'acquisition de la RMN, l'UQAM rejoint le rang des grandes universités en recherche». Congratulations to our colleagues from l'UQAM ! Read the full story here (external link).
March 08, 2008
the 300 MHz NMR Spectrometer in the UVic Chemistry Department gets a new console as a part of the of a $1.04-million grant from Western Economic Diversification Canada awarded to the University of Victoria towards purchasing and upgrading scientific equipment. Read the full story here (external link).
March 07, 2008
The latest issue features two reviews by Canadian researchers
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Marise
Ouellet and Michèle Auger, "Structure and Membrane Interactions
of Antimicrobial Peptides as Viewed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy,"
Annual
Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 63
(2008) 1-21.
Alex D. Bain, "Chemical Exchange," Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 63 (2008) 23-48. |
February 29, 2008
Dr. Chris Kirby, formerly an NMR Facility manager at the Univeristy of Western Ontario (London, ON), has accepted the position of Physical Chemist NMR Specialist in the Crops and Livestock Research Centre in Charlottetown, PEI (Agriculture and Food Canada, external link). Chris will be leaving the facility on February 29th, 2008. Best of luck to Chris at his new post !
Read this and other UWO's NMR Facility news here (NMR Facility Newsletter, February edition).
February 10, 2008
Dear
NMR Colleagues, the 91st Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition will
take place in Edmonton from May 24-28, 2008, and will feature a two-day symposium
on "Advances in Solid-State NMR".
Confirmed invited speakers:
Jean-Paul Amoureux – U.S.T.L.
Darren Brouwer – NRC SIMS
David Bryce - University of Ottawa
Paul Ellis – PNNL
Zhehong Gan – CIMAR NHMFL
Hans Jakobsen - University of Aarhus
Alexej Jerschow - New York University
Scott Kroeker - University of Manitoba
Igor Moudrakovski – SIMS NRC
Glenn Penner - University of Guelph
Rob Schurko - University of Windsor
Mark Smith - University of Warwick
Gang Wu - Queen's University
For information about the conference, see http://www.csc2008.ca
Please also plan on attending the Third Solid-State NMR Workshop organized
by the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids (separate registration
is required). For more information visit
http://nmr900.ca/events_e.html
I look forward seeing you in Edmonton ! Rod Wasylishen
http://ramsey.chem.ualberta.ca/index.htm
January
29, 2007
Results of collaboration between two NMR research teams, from the Queen's
University, Canada (Gang
Wu's group) and the University of Warwick, U.K. (Mark
Smith's group), are featured on the cover of a recent issue of Chemical
Communications.
Irene
C. M. Kwan, Alan Wong, Yi-Min She, Mark E. Smith and Gang Wu, "Direct
NMR evidence for Ca2+ ion binding to G-quartets"
Chemical Communications (2008) 682-684. (cover
article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b714803h
January 29, 2008
a special issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics on "New Developments in Magnetic Resonance" is currently in works (vol 128, #5, February 7, 2008) (external link). Among many deserving attention reviews and research articles, there are at least two by Canadian researchers.
Carl A. Michal, Simon P. Hastings, and Lik Hang Lee, "Two-photon Lee-Goldburg nuclear magnetic resonance: Simultaneous homonuclear decoupling and signal acquisition" J. Chem. Phys. 128 (2008) 052301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2825593
Mara
Jochum, Ulrike Werner-Zwanziger, and Joe W. Zwanziger, "Observable
effects of mechanical stress induced by sample spinning in solid state nuclear
magnetic resonance" J. Chem. Phys. 128 (2008) 052304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2823130
January 24, 2008
Congratulations
are due to our colleagues from the University of Calgary and NRC's Steacie
Institute for Molecular Sciences on publishing a paper in Nature Materials.
Among other techniques, the authors have used NMR of hyperpolarized 129Xe
to probe voids in metal-organic frameworks.
Brett D. Chandler, Gary D. Enright, Konstantin A. Udachin, Shane Pawsey,
John A. Ripmeester, David T. Cramb and George K.H. Shimizu, "Mechanical
gas capture and release in a network solid via multiple single-crystalline
transformations," Nature Materials (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat2101
January
11, 2008
Mike
Fuerth, the NMR technician at the University of Windsor, recently received
the 2007 Staff Meritorious Service Award at the Faculty of Science Celebration
of Success. Mike has been working at the University of Windsor for the past
33 years, and most of that time has been spent keeping the spectrometers operating
in prime condition. For more on this story, click
here (external link).
Photo
from: www.uwindsor.ca
January
11, 2008
Christine
Greenwood, a long-time NMR manager at the University of Victoria, was honoured
with the 2007 UVic President’s Distinguished Service Award. Our congratulations
to Christine! (read
the full story here).
Photo from: www.uvic.ca
January 10, 2008
just published a special issue of Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry is dedicated to "New techniques in solid-state NMR" (external link). Among invited reviews and research papers, there are two by Canadian research teams.
Cory M. Widdifield, Joel A. Tang, Charles L. B. Macdonald, Robert W. Schurko, "Investigation of structure and dynamics in the sodium metallocenes CpNa and CpNa·THF via solid-state NMR, X-ray diffraction and computational modelling," Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 45 (2007) S116-S128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrc.2124
Jason W. Traer, Gillian R. Goward, "Solid-state NMR studies of hydrogen bonding networks and proton transport pathways based on anion and cation dynamics," Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 45 (2007) S135-S143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrc.2127
December 30, 2007
Myrna
and André Simpson (University of Toronto, Scarborough) made a "10
to watch in 2008" list by Toronto Star (read
story). Myrna and Andre are extensively using NMR in their work on various
environmental problems. Their recent paper on 1H and 19F MRI in soils appeared
in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 26 (2007) 1340-1348.
André
Simpson's Group (external link)
December 5, 2007
NMR research by André Simpson and colleagues from the University of Toronto is highlighted today by LabTechnnologist.com (external link). In their ASAP paper in Analytical Chemistry the UofT team describes a novel technique permitting the extraction of a complete 1H NMR spectrum for components in multi-component mixtures using a viscous non-proton oil-based solvent system.
André J. Simpson, Gwen Woods, and Omid Mehrzad, "Spectral Editing of Organic Mixtures into Pure Components Using NMR Spectroscopy and Ultraviscous Solvents," Analytical Chemistry 80 (2008) 186-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac702119d
November 9, 2007
Photos from the 20th annual MOOT NMR Minisymposium (MOOT XX) organized by Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. at the Hôtel Le Chantecler in the Laurentians on September the 29th and 30th, 2007 are now online (external link).
October 26, 2007
Our cheers and congratulations to our NMR colleagues from the University of Ottawa, and particularly to David Bryce. His recent proposal to CFI for a new mid-field wide-bore solid-state NMR spectrometer and console has been successful. The new instrument is scheduled to be up and running by early 2008. Well done, Dave!
David Bryce (UofO, Department of Chemistry) (external link)
The 20th annual MOOT NMR Minisymposium (MOOT XX) will be organized by Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. and held at the Hôtel Le Chantecler in the Laurentians on September the 29th and 30th, 2007
The new home for MOOT on the web is www.mootnmr.org Please visit this site for meeting information and registration.
Second
Annual Solid-State NMR Workshop
The National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids and Bruker Canada will
be presenting the Second Annual Solid-State NMR Workshop on Saturday, May
26, 2007.
Creating a tradition of a Canadian Solid-State NMR event, this Workshop will
focus on the latest developments in the field, with emphasis on practical
aspects of SSNMR and its applications in material and life sciences. This
Workshop will be of interest not only to NMR spectroscopists, but also to
students and other researchers interested in using modern SSNMR techniques
in their research practice.
The Workshop will precede the Simposium on Solid State NMR of Inorganic
Materials at the 90th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (details).
Saturday afternoon, May 26, 2007
Albert Room, Delta Winnipeg, 350 St. Mary Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Workshop Program (download abstracts, PDF file, 43 kB)
Session
1 Chair: Igor
Moudrakovski (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences NRC)
13:00 Welcome
13:05 Victor
Terskikh (National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids) National Solid-State
NMR Network
13:20 David
Bryce (University of Ottawa) Solid-state 35/37Cl NMR Spectroscopy
as a Probe of Inorganic Chloride Pseudopolymorphs
13:55 Eduard Chekmenev
(Huntington Medical Research Institutes and California Institute of Technology)
Towards 17O Solid State NMR Spectroscopy of Ion-selective Channels at Ultra-high
Magnetic Fields
14:30 Michèle
Auger (Université Laval) Study of Biological Solids at High Field:
Perspectives and Applications
15:05 Coffee Break sponsored by CortecNet
Session 2 Chair: Glenn
Penner (University of Guelph)
15:20 Werner
Maas (Bruker BioSpin Corp.) Topics in Solid State NMR: RF Heating and
Statistical Methods for NMR analysis of polymorphism
15:55 Tatyana
Polenova (University of Delaware) High and Low Resolution Solid-State
NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins: Studies of Structure and Enzymatic Reactivity
16:30 Darren
Brouwer (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences NRC) Solid-State Proton
NMR at 900 MHz
17:05 Reception (Campaign B Room)
sponsored by Bruker Canada
Registration is now closed.
We hope to see many of you in Winnipeg!
the 900 Steering Committee
Dear NMR Colleagues:
The
90th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition will take place in Winnipeg
from May 26-30, 2007, and will feature a two-day symposium
on "Solid State NMR of Inorganic Materials".
Invited confirmed speakers are:
Todd
Alam - Sandia National Laboratories
Hellmut Eckert - Universität Münster
Colin Fyfe - University of British Columbia
Phil Grandinetti - Ohio State University
Dominique Massiot - CNRS-Orléans
Marek Pruski - Ames Laboratory
Jeff Reimer - University of California, Berkeley
John Ripmeester - National Research Council
Mark E. Smith - Warwick University
Jonathan Stebbins - Stanford University
Rod Wasylishen - University of Alberta
Stephen Wimperis - University of Glasgow
Joe Zwanziger - Dalhousie University
Contributions for oral or poster presentations are welcome. The deadline for abstract submission is February 14, 2007. For abstract submission and general information about the conference, see:
LImited
student travel assistance is available through the generosity of our sponsors.
Please contact Robert Schurko (rschurko@uwindsor.ca) or
Scott Kroeker (Scott_Kroeker@UManitoba.ca) for application information. (Deadline:
February 14, 2007)
We hope to see you there!
Scott Kroeker and Robert Schurko