About Us

The UConn-Storrs NMR Facility was inaugurated on Nov 4, 2004. The facility recognizes the increasingly important role of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in conformational analysis, molecular structure determination, and drug design. The NMR instrumentation serves high-resolution NMR research needs for a diverse group of investigators from Molecular and Cell Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy. The facility is part of the University wide 'Partnership for Excellence in Structural Biology' and has close collaborative ties with our sister NMR facility on the UConn Health Center campus. The NMR facility directly supports and impacts research programs in the following areas:

• Structure-function relationships
• Structures of membrane proteins
• Protein folding and design
• Nucleic acid structure and reactivity
• Molecular dynamics
• Nanomaterials
• Macromolecules
• Molecular recognition & drug binding
• Conformational analysis
• Pharmaceutical chemistry
• Chemical synthesis
• NMR method development

The facility offers three instruments operating at field strengths of 300, 500, and 600 MHz. The 600 MHz instrument is fitted with a state-of-the-art cryogenic probe. The two highest field instruments are equipped for state-of-the-art multinuclear, multi-dimensional experiments. The lower field instruments serve the research and teaching needs of chemists and include some capabilities for automated NMR.