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Raftery Lab Tour
NMR
LC-MS
Oxford 500MHz magnet with home-built console.
  • 500 MHz Oxford NMR magnet - named as "El Jefe"
  • Bruker Avance DRX 500 console
  • Application: Home-built NMR probe tests, LC-MS-NMR Hyphenation, Metabolite Structural Analysis

Varian INOVA 300 with LC-NMR setup shown at the left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • "Lizzy" - a Varian INOVA 300MHz spectrometer
  • Application: probe testings and LC-NMR Hyphenation

Bruker Avance 500MHz Spectrometer with cryoprobe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • RX 500-1 Bruker Avance spectrometer (Purdue Interdepartmental NMR Facility)
  • Equipped with a 5mm cryoprobe with 1H sensitivity > 3000:1
  • Used heavily for routine NMR in our metabolomics projects

Bruker DRX 500-2 spectrometer located in the Heine Pharmacy Bldg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Another PINMRF instrument - DRX 500-2
  • Equipped with TXI and BBO probes
  • Provide excellent sensitivity, and broadband tunability for our multidimensional NMR experiments.

Bruker Avance III 800MHz NMR located in the Purdue NMR Facility

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Bruker Avance III 800MHz NMR spectrometer at PINMRF
  • Extends the sensitivity and resolution of experiments for a number of projects related to our ongoing Metabalomics research.

CMX 400 spectrometer for solids experiments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • CMX-400 at PINMRF
  • equipped with a variety of static and MAS probes, from 2.5 mm to 7.5 mm . High rate spinning and broadband tunability
  • Used extensively in our 129Xe optical pumping research, as well as metabolite studies on whole tissue samples and extracts

LCMS system automated sample handler and temperature controller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Sciex API 3000 Triple Quad with Turbo-electrospray ionizer
  • Two quaternary Agilent 1100 LC pumps two columns in temperature controlled oven system and CTC PAL temperarture controlled autosampler
  • Application: LCTQMS system currently being used for targetted studies of metabolites in cancer tissues

Finnigan ESI-MS for use in metabolomics studies.
  • The Finnigan MS quadrupole ion trap instrument with an electrospray source
  • Used in the mass analysis of metabolites in biological fluids, and used in the investigation of metabolic perturbations through correlation with complimentary NMR data

Agilent 1100 temperature controlled LC system
  • Agilent 1100 LC system with quaternary pumps
  • Widely used for method development for the separation of urine and serum samples before NMR or MS analysis

Shimadzu LC interfaced to our 300MHz NMR.
  • Shimadzu LC system in-line with a microcoil probe in our 300MHz INOVA instrument
  • Custom LabVIEW-controlled valving setup (in black in photograph) for swicthing and storing chromatographic eluates and moving them to the probe detection cell
  • Used extensivley in our research involving signal enhancement by sample preconcentration.