Facilities

Photo of School of Pharmacy NMR room

NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy

The in-house NMR facility in the School of Pharmacy has recently been upgraded (Summer 2022) with a new 600 MHz spectrometer, and re-consoling of our 400 MHz instrument (used primarily for chemistry). In addition, we have a new liquid handling robot allowing rapid preparation of 96 tube racks of NMR samples, with applications for high throughput screening and metabolomics. Users are assisted in their measurements by our facility manager, Dr Nikita Harvey.

  • 600 MHz Avance NEO QCI-F cryoprobe (13C, 15N, 1H, 19F) with cooled SampleJet
  • 400 MHz Avance NEO nanobay BBFO iProbe (1H, 15N to 19F)
    • with 60-position Sample Case
  • SamplePro Tube liquid handling robot, for automated transfer from 96 well plates and racks of vials to 3 mm and 5 mm NMR tubes

Find out more about the facility and how to access it on the School of Pharmacy website.

Photo of Darwin building NMR room

NMR across UCL

Beyond the School of Pharmacy, UCL is extremely well-equipped for solution-state biomolecular NMR, with an extensive range of spectrometers and probes available within the Darwin building:

  • 800 MHz TCI cryoprobe (1H, 15N, 13C, 2H)
  • 700 MHz TCI cryoprobe (1H, 15N, 13C, 2H)
  • 600 MHz TXO cryoprobe (13C, 15N, 1H, 2H, optimised for 13C detection)
  • 500 MHz TCI Prodigy cryoprobe (1H/19F, 15N, 13C, 2H) with SampleJet
Photo of 950 MHz spectrometer at Francis Crick Institute

National Facilities

We are just 5 min away from the Francis Crick Institute, which hosts the national MRC Biomedical NMR Centre. This provides routine access to a range of field strengths from 600 to 950 MHz, including solid-state HR-MAS capabilities.

We are also regular users of the national 1 GHz spectrometer hosted at HWB-NMR in Birmingham.