The Centre was established in 1977 by the Department of Science and
Technology
initially under the Science and Engineering Research council (SERC)
programme, with
Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, National
Aeronautical
Laboratory all in Bangalore and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in
Bombay as
the participating institutions, and was called "Bangalore NMR Facility" .
It came under
the purview of Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre(RSIC)
programme in
April 1982 and was called the "Sophisticated Instruments Facility".
In March 2005, it was renamed as "NMR Research Centre", which reflects
the current activities. The broad objectives of the Centre are:
To carry out analysis of samples received from scientists and
institutions
To provide facilities to scientists to carry out measurements for
the purpose of research
To organise short-term courses/workshops on the use and
application of various instruments and techniques for research students,
teachers and personnel from other laboratories and industries.
To acquire and develop capability for preventive maintenance and
repairs of Sophisticated instruments and also help other laboratories in
this direction if and when possible.
To train technicians in maintenance and operation of
Sophisticated Instruments.
To promote projects aimed at the development of new techniques,
sophisticated instruments or improvement of existing instruments.
The NMR Research Centre (NRC) has six NMR spectrometers.
300 MHz solid state NMR spectrometer
400 MHz liquid state NMR spectrometer
500 MHz liquid state NMR spectrometer
500 MHz liquid state NMR spectrometer
500 MHz solid state NMR spectrometer
700 MHz liquid state NMR spectrometer
In accordance with the objective of the Centre, the facilities are made
available
to scientists from all over the country. Schools/workshops are organised at
the national
level to make the users aware of the latest developments in
the area of NMR spectroscopy
and also to help them in making the best
use of the
available facilities.Generation of capability for maintenance / development /
improvement of sophisticated instruments and providing assisatance to other
laboratories are also the objectives of the Centre.
