Upgrade of a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer for liquid samples

• Subject Area: Molecular Chemistry
• Term: Funded in 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 553944504

The NMR department of the Central Analytics of the University of Paderborn is contact point for the entire university for carrying out structure elucidation of organic and inorganic compounds. The current scientific questions that can be answered with the aid of the device range from the structural elucidation of small molecules, kinetic investigations at variable temperatures up to end group analysis of polymers. In particular, the scientific questions are characterized by a high proportion of heteroatoms, such as in perfluorinated boranes, phosphanes, heterocycles, N-heterocyclic carbenes and metal complexes thereof. This results in special challenges for NMR spectroscopic analysis. The upgrade ensures the efficient and greatly expanded use of the use of the device, as the new triple resonance measuring head with a significantly new experiments that cannot be performed with the current technical equipment.

• DFG Programme: Major Research Instrumentation
• Major Instrumentation: Upgrade eines 500 MHz Flüssigkeit-NMR-Spektrometers
• Instrumentation Group: 1740 Hochauflösende NMR-Spektrometer
• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Leader: Professor Dr. Jan Paradies