LC-NMR Laboratory
NMR research in the Institute of Chemical Processes Fundamentals has started in 1961 when the Institute has gained an access to a home-made 40 MHz instrument.

The Institute had its own NMR spectrometers (60, 100 MHz) since 1967 till 1992. Since 1968 The Institute participated in Central NMR laboratory of the Academy which was equipped with Varian XL-200 spectrometer. That spectrometer was upgraded to Unity 200 and Unity 500 was added in 1989.

In 2002 the Institute acquired its own spectrometers (Mercury 300 and INOVA 500) and the Central LC-NMR laboratory was founded.

Traditionally the NMR in the Institute was connected with the research in the field of organosilicon compounds, in the last decades especially with 29Si NMR in liquids. For such studies the laboratory is equiped with two special probes. One is allowing 29Si detection and 13C decoupling, the other allows LC-NMR experiments with indirect detection of 29Si NMR. The studied topics, however, included other classes of compounds, e.g., hydroxamic acids and their derivatives.

The Mercury 300 spectrometer serves all the researchers and students of the Institute and as such is emplyed in studies of organometallic chemistry, catalysis and other areas.

The Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals (ICPF) is one of the six institutes constituting the Section of Chemical Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The Institute functions as a center for advanced research in chemical, biochemical, catalytic and environmental engineering and it acts as a graduate school for PhD. studies in the fields of chemical engineering, physical chemistry, industrial chemistry, and biotechnology.
LC-NMR Laboratory, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czech Academy of Sciences v.v.i., Rozvojova 135, 165 02 Praha 6