Solid-state NMR Research Service for UK Universities
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Chemistry
Abstract
Solid-state NMR is an important technique for characterising and studying solid materials whether they are homogeneous or heterogeneous, crystalline or amorphous. It can be applied across a wide-range of chemistry including novel organic, inorganic, organometallic and hybrid compounds, polymers (both natural and synthetic), fuels, pharmaceutical and excipients, composites, ceramics, catalysts, liquid crystals and biologically-based systems. This proposal is for a solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) research service. The service will be available to members of the UK academic community and will based around a new state-of-the-art 400 MHz spectrometer. It will build upon the well-established and highly-experienced service currently running at Durham. The service will offer experiment planning and interpretation, in addition to providing high-quality spectra. It will promote the application of solid-state NMR to chemical problems and will act as a centre for practical training in solid-state NMR methodology. The EPSRC service will run in parallel to a commercial service supporting the research and development needs of industry. The case for support describes how the service will be structured, how it will operate and how much instrument time will be available to its users. It is proposed that the Service will operate for a period of five years to permit a major equipment upgrade to be carried out and its impact evaluated.
Organisations
Publications
White R
(2010)
Polysaccharide-Derived Carbons for Polar Analyte Separations
in Advanced Functional Materials
Smith DA
(2009)
From cyclic iminophosphoranes to pi-conjugated materials.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Smith DA
(2008)
A truly multifunctional heterocycle: iminophosphorane, N,P chelate, and dihydropyridine.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Yuan W
(2010)
High reactivity of metal-organic frameworks under grinding conditions: parallels with organic molecular materials.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Smith D
(2010)
Exploiting Non-Innocent Ligands to Prepare Masked Palladium(0) Complexes
in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Shiju N
(2011)
Mesoporous Silica with Site-Isolated Amine and Phosphotungstic Acid Groups: A Solid Catalyst with Tunable Antagonistic Functions for One-Pot Tandem Reactions
in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Watson HR
(2009)
An efficient method for 15N-labeling of chitin in fungi.
in Biomacromolecules
Nep E
(2011)
Physicochemical characterization of grewia polysaccharide gum: Effect of drying method
in Carbohydrate Polymers
Dingwall L
(2008)
A polyoxometallate-tethered Ru complex as a catalyst in solventless phenyl acetylene oligomerisation
in Catalysis Communications
Kennedy C
(2007)
Microfibril diameter in celery collenchyma cellulose: X-ray scattering and NMR evidence
in Cellulose
Castro M
(2007)
Co-templating and modelling in the rational synthesis of zeolitic solids.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Sbircea L
(2008)
Chemoenzymatic synthesis of chiral 4,4'-bipyridyls and their metal-organic frameworks.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Fujii K
(2010)
Direct structure elucidation by powder X-ray diffraction of a metal-organic framework material prepared by solvent-free grinding.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
White RJ
(2009)
Tuneable porous carbonaceous materials from renewable resources.
in Chemical Society reviews
Craythorne SJ
(2009)
The co-entrapment of a homogeneous catalyst and an ionic liquid by a sol-gel method: recyclable ionogel hydrogenation catalysts.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Karimi B
(2010)
Ordered mesoporous organosilica with ionic-liquid framework: an efficient and reusable support for the palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction in water.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
White R
(2010)
Pectin-Derived Porous Materials
in Chemistry - A European Journal
Bontemps S
(2009)
Bridging M-Cl bonds with ambiphilic phosphine-borane ligands.
in Chemistry, an Asian journal
Zencirci N
(2009)
Structural Features, Phase Relationships and Transformation Behavior of the Polymorphs I-VI of Phenobarbital
in Crystal Growth & Design
Griesser U
(2008)
Conformational Polymorphism in Oxybuprocaine Hydrochloride
in Crystal Growth & Design
Evans I
(2008)
Polymorphism and hydrogen bonding in cinchomeronic acid: a variable temperature experimental and computational study
in CrystEngComm
Description | The Solid-State NMR service provided NMR spectra and interpretation services for users without ready access to this important, but relatively expensive, analytical technique for analysing solid materials. This work fed into a large number of papers (74 listed here) over the period. Aided by the baseline EPSRC funding, the Service ran a busy commercial operation over the funding period, supplying services to 10-15 companies per year in, for example, the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, agrichemical, polymer and defence industries. |
Exploitation Route | This is best addressed by individual users of the Service. We have indicated below the areas in which the Service had a significant impact. |
Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Description | EPSRC |
Amount | £668,649 (GBP) |
Funding ID | Contract 01SSN01112011 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2011 |
End | 10/2016 |