The NMR Facility is located in rooms 044 & 051 on the ground floor of Caudill Laboratories.
Lab phone number: 919-962-1149
Monday through Friday
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Co Director NMR Facility
David Harris, Ph.D.
Caudill Laboratories, room 057 - Office
david_harris@unc.edu
919-962-3662
Co Director NMR Facility
Marc ter Horst, Ph.D.
Caudill Laboratories, room 056 - Office
terhorst@unc.edu
919-843-5802
Authorized users of the NMR facility may reserve time on five spectrometers after schedules are posted on Friday mornings and daily for the walk-up 400MHz spectrometer via a web calendar. Additional assistance with experiments,
special request for NMR time, or requests for training may be directed to David Harris or Marc ter Horst.
The hourly rates for facility use differ according to who is using which spectrometer at what time of day. Users are identified as Chemistry, University, and External. The definition of these three categories are as follows:
Chemistry
Chemistry Faculty including joint appointees without regard to funding source
Memos of Understanding with other Departments
Excludes non-Chemistry faculty who are co-principal investigators
University
UNC-CH Departments not covered under Chemistry
External
Other UNC campuses
Other Universities
Government Laboratories
Commercial businesses
There is a $1.30/hour charge for nitrogen gas (hi T or low T work) and $1.30/hour for liquid nitrogen used to cool the probe for low temperature work.
Consultation refers to use of facility staff time for training, assistance in setting up experiments, assistance with processing data, discussions of NMR experiments, etc. Samples run by staff include the consultation rate only for staff time used in setting up the spectrometer and sample and for processing.
Rates are subject to change.
| Chemistry | Instrument Fee | Consultation |
| MON-FRI 8AM - 7PM |
$12.00/HR | $27.00/HR |
| SAT & SUN; MON-FRI 7PM - 8AM |
$6.00/HR | |
| University | Instrument Fee | Consultation |
| MON-FRI 8AM - 7PM |
$15.00/HR | $60.00/HR |
| SAT & SUN; MON-FRI 7PM - 8AM |
$7.50
|
| External | Instrument Fee | Consultation |
| Anytime | $66.00/HR | $184.00/HR |