Thank you for your interest in using the NMR and Chemistry MS facilities. Whether you are an experienced user or just found out NMR and MS are a thing, we will do our best to help you advance your research.
In general, if you need regular access to NMR and/or MS for an extended period of time, you should get trained to use the instruments independently. If you just need to analyze a few samples, we will run them for you at no additional charge. If you are not sure which applies to you, please talk to us before completing the training.
Please complete your training ONLY when you are ready to generate samples. Experience teaches us that getting trained too far in advance will just result in having to repeat the training.
Most likely. We provide access to analytical instrumentation for Cornell, non-Cornell academic, and industrial users.
Yes. The training includes Cornell-specific rules and procedures, so you must read the materials and pass the quiz before we can give you access to the facility.
No, we will run the samples for you. If you decide to read the online training materials anyway, please don’t do the quiz at the end, so we don’t end up creating your account unnecessarily.
Yes. We charge user fees to cover operational, maintenance, and repair expenses, as well as a part of the staff’s salary and benefits.
It depends on what experiment(s) you need to do. On the automated Bruker instruments, we charge you for the actual time it takes to run your experiments. This can vary from 10 minutes for a simple 1H spectrum to many hours. The current rates are posted here.
If you are affiliated with Cornell, we invoice the KFS account you provide when you submit your experiments. If you do not have a Cornell account, the Chemistry business office will create a dummy account for you and send you an invoice.
