UC Davis NMR Equipment

The UC Davis Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility is equipped with state-of-the-art magnetic resonance equipment suitable for liquids, solids and imaging experiments.  Below is a short summary of our available instrumentation.  You can see more information about each spectrometer by clicking on the tabs to the left.

MedSci-1D

The MedSci-1D Facility houses 6 NMR Spectrometers. The 600 and 800 MHz Bruker Avance III spectrometers are usually equipped with cryoprobes for increased sensitivity over conventional NMR probes.  These cryoprobes are ideally suited for NMR structure determination of proteins, nucleic acids and other biomolecules.

There are two 500 MHz (11.75 T) Spectrometers. The Bruker Avance DRX spectrometer is usually equipped with a 5 mm 1H/BB probe with an X-channel tunable from 15N to 31P. This spectrometer is also capable of both low-temperature and high-temperature experiments. It is generally used for high resolution liquids samples. The 500 MHz BRUKER AVANCE I NMR spectrometer is equipped with an 11.74T wide bore Bruker magnet specifically designated for solid-state-NMR experiments. Depending on the features of the researchers’ projects, various probes are available with difference sample sizes ad spinning speeds. The 2.5, and 7 mm probes are H/BB CPMAS probes with the broadband tunes to 15N-31P. A 4mm triple-resonance (H/BB/BB) CPMAS probe is cable of running X-Y correlation MAS NMR experiments, for example, H/N/C, H/C/P, H/Si/Al. The 4 mm and 7 mm low-gamma CPMAS probes cover the frequency range of 12-50MHz (41K – 51N). The wideline probe is capable of running static NMR experiment at VT range of -150C to 400C, and covers the frequency range from 109Ag to 31P.

The other 2 spectrometers are capable of in vivo spectroscopy and imaging (MRI). The 400 MHz Bruker DRX spectrometer is a vertical-bore instrument with both spectroscopy and microimaging capabilities, and has both Topspin and Paravision 4 software for spectrometer control. The 7T (300 MHz) MRI instrument is a horizontal-bore spectrometer ideal for small-animal imaging.

Chemistry

Chemistry room 93 houses a Varian 600 MHz NMR spectrometer using VnmrJ software, a Bruker 400 MHz AVANCE Nanobay spectrometer with Topspin 3.6.2, and a Bruker 300 MHz NEO spectrometer with Topspin 4.2. Both the Bruker 400 MHz and 300 MHz are equipped with a 5mm BBFO probe, a SampleCase Plus, and are running ICONNMR. The users have the option to operate the Bruker 300 MHz instrument in manual mode for variable temperature experiments, the VT ranges is from -80C to +150C. 

NMR Spectrometer Status

InstrumentCurrent Status
MS1D 800 MHzCPTCI probe, normal 
MS1D 600 MHzCPTCI probe, normal 
MS1D 500 MHz10mm SE 19F/1H probe, normal 
MS1D 500 MHz Solids4mm triple resonance MAS probe, normal
MS1D 400 MHz microimagingnormal
MS1D 7T MRInormal
CHEM 400 MHz BBFO probe, normal 
CHEM 300 MHzBBFO probe, normal 
CHEM 600 MHz VNMRSOffline

Scheduling

Trained users can reserve NMR experiment time by visiting our Online Scheduler

800 MHz NMR in Med Sci.