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PCCP themed issue: Solid-State NMR spectroscopy (August 4/09)

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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


Recognition: Robert Schurko (July 27/09)

Rob Schurko 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!

WURST-QCPMG NMR (May 7/09)

wurstA WURST-QCPMG NMR technique has recently been introduced by Luke O'Dell and Rob Schurko (Windsor) to achieve uniform excitation of quadrupolar nuclei across very wide bandwidth. Using this approach wideline spectra of stationary samples can now be acquired with no need or just minimal transmitter frequency adjustment. The spectrum shown was acquired in about 1 hour by co-adding 10 individual pieces. Experiments were performed by Luke O'Dell, who also kindly provided the WURST-QCPMG pulse sequence for the 900 MHz NMR instrument. This pulse program is now available to our users. For more information about WURST-QCPMG:

L.A. O'Dell and R.W. Schurko, "QCPMG Using Adiabatic Pulses for Faster Acquisition of Ultra-Wideline NMR Spectra," Chem. Phys. Lett. 464 (2008) 97-102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2008.08.095


"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin (Feb 2/09)

Winter 2009 " .. 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.

 


Mike Fuerth receives the 2007 Service Award (Jan11/08)

Mike FuerthMike 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