MC2 facility during the research ramp-up period
If you have any comments or suggestions, go to the departmental anonymous survey.
Managers will be in between 1 and 3 days per week - see tentative schedule.
General
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Users must comply with all posted and emailed rules for the facility
- NMR/EPR will start on Saturday, May 23
- Mass spectrometry and QANUC will start during the week of May 25
- Other services' start dates will be announced when they are known
- General cleaning procedure:
MC2 instrument cleaning procedures
- All facilities will have manager-run service (at user-run rates if service normally user-run)
- A sample drop-off area for all facilities will be available near the freight elevator in the basement
- Some user-run service will become available (and will be announced)
- Masks must be worn by users visiting instrument facilities
- Some calendar systems have changed – managers will inform user
External Sample Submission
- Inform concerned manager that you want to submit samples for analysis.
- Come to the loading dock (see attached map)
map to loading dock
- Deposit your samples on the corresponding shelves according to attached labels (see attached images)
loadindock_door.pdf
loading_dock_external_submission_area.pdf
Mass spectrometry (Nadim Saadeh, alexander.wahba [at] mcgill.ca (Alex Wahba))
- Leave samples at sample submission area near goods elevator in the basement
- Open access is now available for: LCQ (lab 21), two GC-MS (lab 121).
- After operating an instrument, make sure you carefully complete cleaning procedures
MC2 instrument cleaning procedures
- Please contact Alex for more details regarding training and setting up access to concerned instruments.
QANUC (tara.sprules [at] mcgill.ca (Tara Sprules))
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Service manager-run unless by special arrangement.
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Chemistry Walkup time will be on Thursday afternoons for the month of June. Email Tara Sprules, tara.sprules [at] mcgill.ca, to let her know you will be dropping off a sample, and what experiment(s) you require. Samples should be clearly labelled and left in the QANUC rack near the goods elevator in the OM basement.
NMR/EPR (robin.stein [at] mcgill.ca (Robin Stein))
- The rules listed here take effect in the afternoon of Saturday, May 23
- General notes
- Wear a mask
- Enter the room containing the instrument you want to use - do not pass through the middle (room 35) to go between instruments
- Discard any gloves you are wearing when you enter
- Wash your hands when you enter the NMR room
- Use only ethanol or ethanol/water mixtures to disinfect your NMR tubes, and do not insert anything wet into the NMR instrument
- Clean your area when you are finished:
Disinfecting NMR instrument after use
- Sample submission
- For Chemistry Department users:
- fill in the sample submission form at https://mcgill.ca/mc2/nmrsample
- label your sample on top with marker and Parafilm it
- place the sample in the sample submission rack near the goods elevator in the basement
- when Robin, Tara, or Violeta is in (see schedule), they will run the sample
- the sample will be returned to the sample submission area afterwards
- For non-Chemistry Department users:
- fill in the sample submission form at https://mcgill.ca/mc2/nmrsampleext
- see above instructions for depositing samples at Otto Maass
- Samples will normally be run on the Bruker 500 MHz sample changer instrument
- For Chemistry Department users:
- Walkup access
- The following instruments: Varian 400 MHz, Bruker 400 MHz, Varian 500 MHz and QANUC 500MHz are all available
- Use booking system at http://mcgille580.chemistry.mcgill.ca/nmrbooker to book time
- If you fail to book time:
- The first time you fail to book time, you will lose NMR privileges for two days
- The second time you fail to book time, your supervisor will be informed and you will lose NMR privileges for at least one week
- Leave time to disinfect your area according to
Disinfecting NMR instrument after use
- Sample changer use
- The Bruker 500 MHz is available when no manager is in
- When a manager is in, a sign on the door will indicate that the sample changer is unavailable. In this case, you can use one of the other two options, or you can wait
- After using the instrument, disinfect your area according to
Disinfecting NMR instrument after use
- Solid-state NMR and EPR will be run by Robin only
- For the moment, the Varian 300 and the QANUC 500 are unavailable.
- Additional protocols
- For training or support, robin.stein [at] mcgill.ca (contact Robin). Support will usually be given remotely, and is available whether Robin is in or not
Microscopy and imaging (milab.chemistry [at] mcgill.ca (Mohini Ramkaran))
- Most service manager-run
- Consult the directives for information about sample submission, access and new protocols:
milab_directives_v3.pdf (updated version August 31st 2020)
- Refer to individual instrument disinfection protocols posted in the lab and leave sufficient time before the end of your booking to clean your area.
- Contact manager about service and access
DLS (Dynamic light scattering, violeta.toader [at] mcgill.ca (Violeta Toader))
- Instrument will move to OM 430
- Contact Violeta about access and running samples
Thermal analysis (petr.fiurasek [at] mcgill.ca (Petr Fiurasek))
- Open-access maintained, but calendar system changed
- Contact Petr and Hatem with questions
X-ray diffraction (hatem.titi [at] mcgill.ca (Hatem Titi))
- Most service manager-run
- Contact manager about service and access