Thanks for the responses -- I see our 3000-4000/yr is actually on the very
low end of responses, which were all from university shops -- Caltech,
U.Wisc., U.Oregon, U.Neb, Simon Fraser, .Ill -- which I'm not terribly
surprised by. Good job, guys!
I wonder what other undergraduate-only institutions see for use of their
instrument.
We have a decent-sized program here at St. Olaf for a PUI --- 50-60 chem
majors per year; 120-150 sophomore organic students; 6-7 labs. Tiny, I
think, relative to those who responded.
All our students run all their spectra themselves in real time -- no
cassettes collected, no teaching assistants involved, no wait. That's
enabled by this OleNMR system we built in 2002-2003. Each student group is
assigned a BACS-120 slot they can do anything they want with, 24/7, all
semester. It's about a 10-minute operation for a lab assistant to assign
these slots for their section.
In sophomore organic students are running their own spectra by week 2 first
semester in lab, and we make a point to cover NMR spectroscopy in class in
week 5. During January interim (4 weeks, one course) they can take an
intense spectroscopy course (IR, NMR, GC/MS). Second semester the focus is
on 2D spectroscopy.
So we have fun. Prior to OleNMR we did not have fun. Sitting at our old
300, lab assistant or professor taking spectra, three or four students at a
time looking on in a closet of a room. I would guess we took about 200
spectra per semester if we were lucky.
I'll put some more about OleNMR in a separate message.
Bob
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Robert Hanson <hansonr_at_stolaf.edu> wrote:
> I'm interested in how much use various installations have seen with a
> general-use 300- or 400-MHz instrument. Of course, St. Olaf is just an
> undergraduate institution, but I was just realizing that our OleNMR
> remote-access system which we have been using with our Bruker 400-MHz
> instrument since 2003, has delivered something on the order of
> 40,000-50,000 spectra (3000-4000 spectra a year).
>
> I'm wondering where this stands on the general landscape of instrument
> use. Any perspective would be appreciated.
>
> Bob Hanson
>
> --
> Robert M. Hanson
> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
> St. Olaf College
> Northfield, MN
> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>
>
> If nature does not answer first what we want,
> it is better to take what answer we get.
>
> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>
>
--
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
Received on Mon Aug 22 2016 - 03:47:17 MST