Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have created a new set of guidelines for using the NMR facility. They can be found in our updated NMR Facility Handout: here
Cleanliness
- Everyone will wear appropriate PPE (i.e. goggles, face mask, )
- Wash your hands before entering the room and after leaving the room
- Equipment and doorknobs will be sanitized as regularly as possible
Maintaining Social Distancing
- Do not visit the basement NMR lab or the NMR labs on the 3rd and 4th floors if you are not running an experiment
- No more gatherings in the NMR area
- All NMR training sessions are provided as a hybrid mode. Please email to nmr-help@chem.upenn.edu to request the training.
- One assigned NMR person for each group that is not located in the Chemistry Complex can access the NMR facility.
- You will maintain an appropriate social distance (6ft), and to avoid crossing paths while at the basement NMR lab users will enter as usual through the main entrance, however, once you have finished at the instrument you will exit through the mechanical
- Minimize the time you spend inside the NMR room
- No data analysis at instrument terminals. Collect your data from PennBox and analyze on your personal or laboratory computer
- You will strictly adhere to your reservation times (no going over your time)
- Automated systems will now require that you reserve time to queue your experiments and pick up sample to avoid forming lines
- When using the automated systems, you do not wait in the NMR lab for your experiment to finish. You will queue your experiment and leave. Collect your sample at later time when you are notified that is finished (Label your NMR tube in case it will be removed from the SampleCase and left on the sample rack)
- One person per instrument in the room at a
- In the case of the NMR labs that contain a single One person in the room at a time.
Sample Handling
- Insert your sample into the spinner while the spinner is still in the
- DO NOT TOUCH THE SPINNER
- Holder spinner with a Kim-wipe if need
- Use a Kim-Wipe to hold sample gauge and adjust sample while only touching the sample Dispose of Kim-Wipe in the trash
- For low temperature experiment, please email to nmr-help@chem.upenn.edu with the experimental plan, after getting an approval from Jun and Chad, students need to wear proper PPE (mask and gloves) to work inside NMR lab.
Stay safe everyone and practice social distancing