The market-leading benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) developer, Magritek, introduces its qIDsolve benchtop NMR software package, which is quickly being adopted by forensics laboratories around the world. Developed to meet the needs of regulated environments, the package includes: automated data acquisition, identification, quantification and reporting, embedded in a fully traceable environment that is supported by the most comprehensive benchtop NMR spectra database...

Magritek has made benchtop NMR suitable for the rapid identification and quantitation of analytes during chemical reactions, in batch and continuous flow processes. This significant advancement in NMR has been achieved by Magritek thanks to the improved magnet performance of its Spinsolve ULTRA system, which enables effective and robust solvent suppression. Now, scientists can run NMR experiments on samples dissolved in standard protonated solvents...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments reports being awarded a contract to supply two automated Spinsolve 80 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometers for forensic applications. Magritek announces that it has been awarded a major contract by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for two Spinsolve 80 Carbon benchtop NMR spectrometers. The purchase was made through a competitive award process and will allow DEA laboratories...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, talks with Harrisburg University's Associate Professor, Catherine Santai. She leads the Integrative Sciences program teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry to undergraduates. This includes the application of benchtop NMR spectroscopy using a Magritek 60 MHz Spinsolve spectrometer...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR instruments, reports on the research & development work of Professor Manfred Wilhelm, head of the Polymeric Materials Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Professor Wilhelm has applied Magritek’s 60 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometer to develop a new online chemical detector for size-exclusion chromatography. Manfred Wilhelm is professor and chair of...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on the research & development work of Professor Patrick Giraudeau and his group at the University of Nantes.

Magritek reports how their 60 MHz benchtop NMR spectrometer is being used to teach undergraduate Biotechnology and Molecular Life Sciences students from Wageningen University about the practical use of NMR as part of the spectroscopic and chromatographic introductory course “Analytical Methods in Organic Chemistry”. 

Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is formed from the collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation. With the mission “to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life,” its staff and students work in the domain of healthy foods and living environments....

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports how Dr Hilde Roex from the University College Leuven & Limburg leads second year undergraduates through an organic chemistry laboratory to show them the value of NMR spectroscopy.

The students use the Magritek Spinsolve Proton benchtop NMR spectrometer. The University College Leuven Limburg, UCLL, is a multi-campus group in the region of Limburg and Flemish Brabant. Dr Hilde Roex is the co-ordinator of the second year organic chemistry laboratory course of the Chemistry Program....

Magritek and Quantum Design announce their new distribution partnership.

Under the new agreement, Quantum Design South America will distribute Magritek’s product line of Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Spectrometers in South America. Commenting on the agreement, Andrew Coy, Magritek CEO said “We are delighted to be partnering with Quantum Design for the distribution of our Spinsolve Benchtop NMR family of products....

Magritek reports how Assistant Professor Irosha Nawarathne in the Department of Chemistry at Lyon College, Arkansas, has incorporated the Spinsolve benchtop NMR into the undergraduate teaching curriculum and to aid their biomedical research program. 

Lyon College is a selective liberal arts institution in rural Arkansas. Students taking the chemistry major courses are guided to understand the principles underlying the composition, structure, and properties of substances—both natural and man-made—and the transformations they undergo....

Magritek reports on the Laboratory of Professor Steven Ley in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Specialists in flow chemistry & organic synthesis, the lab is using the Spinsolve benchtop NMR integrated into their flow systems. 

Professor Steven Ley's laboratories are located in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Their research specialises in flow chemistry and organic synthesis. They are renowned for collaborations with academic and industrial partners....

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on how the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands utilises Magritek’s Spinsolve 60 benchtop NMR to quantitatively investigate illicit medicinal products. 

Dr Peter Keizers is a scientist in the Centre for Health Protection at RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment based in Bilthoven. As a chemist, he investigates (illegal) drugs, medical devices and other medicinal products....

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, announces the latest member their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR family.

Based on Magritek's patented Halbach magnet design,* Spinsolve 80 is the only 80 MHz benchtop NMR using 5 mm NMR tubes. The advanced shimming of this magnet design provides the highest sensitivity and resolution of any benchtop NMR spectrometer on the market today....

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, announces the launch of the Spinsolve ULTRA Benchtop NMR system.

The Spinsolve ULTRA has the field homogeneity of a superconducting NMR magnet (50% 0.2 Hz) in a compact and robust benchtop unit. When combined with solvent suppression it allows users to resolve compounds dissolved at sub-millimolar concentrations in protonated solvents, such as water. Magritek, leading suppliers of high resolution, easy-to-use benchtop NMR spectrometers, is excited to announce the release of the Spinsolve ULTRA. Using Magritek’s patented...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on how Yale-NUS College in Singapore is applying the Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the teaching program of undergraduate chemists. 

The teaching laboratories at Yale-NUS College in Singapore have recently installed new research-grade instrumentation to allow students to gain hands-on experience and exposure to different methods of sample analysis. The new equipment is generally more advanced than standard teaching tools, offering undergraduates the opportunity to conduct their own independent research studies....

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on how a research group at the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre at Sonning Common is using their Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer.  

Dr Andrew York is a Senior Principal Scientist at the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre at Sonning Common, UK. His current role includes defining projects on catalysis and reaction engineering both internally and with external partners especially Cambridge University’s Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department. Dr York's group purchased the Magritek Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer to characterize materials of importance to the businesses in the...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on how the Chemistry Department of the University of Helsinki is using benchtop Spinsolve NMR spectrometers in their organic chemistry laboratory practical sessions. 

Dr Leena Kaisalo heads up the Organic Chemistry student laboratory at the University of Helsinki. While the Laboratory’s research focuses on organic synthesis, Dr Kaisalo's role is to lead the teaching of bachelor and masters students in various analytical techniques including NMR....

Magritek reports on how the Centre of Expertise on Sustainable Chemistry at Karel de Grote University College in Antwerp is using a Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer in both teaching and research. 

Dr Jeroen Geuens is a member of the Centre of Expertise on Sustainable Chemistry (CESC) based in Antwerp at the Karel de Grote University College. The Centre specialises in research and services related to chemical and production processes together with offering professional degree courses.....

Magritek reports on the benefits of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer for teaching practical organic chemistry to undergraduate students at Cleveland State University in Ohio. 

As an urban public university, Cleveland State has a dual mission to both serve the community and to contribute to the city's redevelopment in ways that many institutions cannot. By bringing a high level of engagement to our education, Cleveland State is developing into one of the best urban universities in the nation...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on the how their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer is being used for teaching practical analytical chemistry to students at the technical High School in Wels, Austria. 

HTBLA Wels is a higher technical vocational college of chemistry in Austria. Here, Dr Harald Baumgartner is responsible for the instrumental analytical laboratory. The lab's main focus is to teach students the basics of NMR (interpretation of spectra). Starting this year, all the students have to do their own practical work towards their thesis. This may be in the field of synthetic organic chemistry so NMR is used to determine...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, reports on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the teaching of practical chemistry to students at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. 

Dr Maria Vogt is Professor of Chemistry at Bloomfield College, an undergraduate college in New Jersey. She teaches lectures and runs labs in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Having had a prior research career and publishing more than 45 papers, Dr Vogt now devotes her efforts to prepare students for the "real world" by exposing them to as many hands-on and instrumental skills as possible prior to...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, announce new 60 MHz capability for the family of benchtop NMR spectrometers.

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer is used in the practical teaching of organic chemistry students at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas. 

Tarrant County College (TCC) was established in 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas to provide quality, affordable education. The College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges to award Associate's degrees. In 2014, TCC's Board of Trustees together with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved for the College to award Associate of Science degree in Chemistry. Graduates with an AS-Chemistry degree are qualified to...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, expand the range of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometers with the Spinsolve Phosphorus.

Key applications include routine purity assessment and reaction monitoring. Recent years have seen the rapid growth of benchtop analytical techniques with uses in teaching, research and industry. Benchtop NMR instruments bring the advantages of space saving; they do not require special laboratory conditions or advanced, highly trained operators; and they may be operated in environments which may benefit from the simplicity of mounting on a...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the Chemistry Department of Samford University located in Birmingham, Alabama.

It is being applied in research in the areas of organic synthesis, reaction methodology and medicinal chemistry. Dr Paul Wiget is an assistant professor of chemistry at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He first became interested in the Spinsolve instrument when he began interviewing for his current position knowing that his research interests would require a work-around for the lack of a local high-field NMR. Spinsolve, as a...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, have released new solutions that enable straightforward reaction monitoring on the Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer.

This is complemented with a series of applications notes illustrating the multiple uses for the Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer. The development of benchtop NMR spectroscopy no longer requires specialist high technology systems with specialist laboratories and highly qualified operators. The use of new, cryogen-free magnet technology and a system that is easily used on the lab bench or made readily portable on a...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, continue their leadership position in the establishment of teaching NMR at the undergraduate level with their Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer through the launch of a series of informative videos. 

Giving undergraduates the opportunity to get hands-on use of advanced analytical tools such as NMR is a driver for the analytical instrument industry. Benchtop mass spectrometers are now well accepted and the last two years have witnessed the take-off of NMR systems like the Magritek Spinsolve, the fastest benchtop NMR spectrometer. In past years, NMR has been a technique restricted to specially equipped laboratories with highly...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the Chemistry Department of Durham University.

It is being applied to general NMR research, reaction monitoring and teaching at the undergraduate level. Dr Alan Kenwright is Reader in Spectroscopy and Manager of the solution-state NMR facility in the Chemistry Department at Durham University. His personal research is focussed on developing and using NMR techniques to solve a range of chemical problems, but in addition to that (and growing out of it), he works in collaboration with a number of other...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, announce the posting of a new educational video on following chemical reactions in real time on the bench using the Magritek Spinsolve NMR spectrometer.

Given by CEO Dr Andrew Coy, this lecture is one of a series of webinars organised by software provider Mestrelab on the growth in benchtop NMR solutions. Mestrelab Research produces a software program called Mnova which is widely used by organic chemists to analyse NMR spectra. Magritek customers often use MNova to carry out their NMR data processing and analysis. Mestrelab organised a series of webinars on benchtop NMR and invited...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer the Chemistry Department of the University of Queensland where it is in use in the undergraduate laboratory curricula. 

Dr Philip Sharpe is a teaching-focused academic in the School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. His active research interests are in the field of chemistry education research, particularly student learning within the laboratory environment. His goal is to remove the barriers that hinder student success in the laboratory and to provide situations that allow students to maximize their learning. As the academic in charge of the first year chemistry laboratory, Dr Sharpe...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer for reaction monitoring studies in the Cronin Group in the Chemistry Department of the University of Glasgow. 

Professor Lee Cronin holds the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Research in the Cronin Group is motivated by the fascination for complex chemical systems and the desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks. They are developing a new approach to the chemical sciences which they call Chemical Cybernetics. This combines...

Magritek, a leading worldwide provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, have demonstrated the use of their Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometer to perform and monitor chemical reactions on-line. 

As costs for energy and raw materials continue to rise, it becomes more critical for chemists to be able to mimic a reaction or to quantify the parameters required to produce a final product without the difficulty and expense of using production facilities. To be able to recreate a production process on a lab bench is therefore highly desirable for many chemists. The Magritek Spinsolve high-resolution benchtop NMR spectrometer is a...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, is pleased to announce the Spinsolve Phosphorus, the world’s first Phosphorus-31 capable benchtop NMR spectroscopy system. 

Phosphorus is commonly found in many organic compounds, for example in biological membranes or DNA. The ³¹P nucleus has a 100% natural isotopic abundance and a large chemical shift range, making it one of the most commonly used nuclei in biological NMR. For the first time users can have the power of proton-phosphorus NMR in a benchtop instrument that can be safely used in the laboratory... 

Magritek, a leading worldwide provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, have launched the first six in a series of laboratory experiment manuals to help teach undergraduate students about the practical benefits of using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, NMR. 

In collaboration with the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, Magritek have developed a set of student teaching laboratory manuals. These are aimed at second and third year organic Chemistry labs. Students will use the Spinsolve® benchtop NMR spectrometer to analyse their own samples with simple one- and two-dimensional NMR methods...

Magritek, a leading worldwide provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, have released three new applications notes which showcase the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Spectrometer. 

Magritek has released three new applications notes to illustrate the versatility of their Spinsolve family of cost-effective benchtop NMR spectrometry solutions. Spinsolve uses standard 5 mm OD NMR test tubes, exactly the same as high field instruments, so sample handling is familiar and convenient. Spinsolve can be deployed in the lab where immediate results may now be obtained...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, appoints LEAP Technologies as the Distributor for Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Spectrometers for the US and Canadian markets and forms a Partnership to develop automated solutions for the NMR products. 

LEAP Technologies was formed in Carrboro, NC in order to serve automation needs in the analytical laboratory with a focus on solutions for chromatography and mass spectrometry. LEAP delivers the automation advantage to R&D, pharmaceutical, polymer, food processing, forensic and academic laboratories. LEAP adds value through higher efficiency, error reduction and tighter specifications for users’ analytical results...

The Magritek Spinsolve Carbon is the world’s first Carbon-13 capable benchtop NMR spectroscopy system. It has been designed to meet the needs of every chemistry lab and is perfect for chemistry education, synthetic chemists & reaction monitoring.

The launch of Spinsolve Carbon follows naturally after the successful adoption of the Spinsolve family of benchtop NMR spectrometers by users around the globe. It has been designed to meet the needs of specific groups of users. These are split into several categories: pharmaceutical and medicinal chemists, synthetic chemists, academics focused on organic chemistry education and researchers working on the structure elucidation of organic molecules....

Magritek announces company expansion with the appointment of new hires to the sales and marketing team. 

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, is pleased to announce the Spinsolve Carbon.

For organic chemists, carbon-13 (¹³C) NMR forms the backbone of routine molecular analysis. For the first time users can have the power of a 1D and 2D proton-carbon NMR in a benchtop instrument that can be safely used in the laboratory. The launch of Spinsolve Carbon follows naturally after the successful adoption of the Spinsolve family of benchtop NMR spectrometers by users around the globe. It has been designed to meet the needs of specific groups of users...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, has added fluorine measurement capability to their Spinsolve benchtop NMR spectrometers to meet applications needs in the pharmaceutical industry.

The Magritek Spinsolve™ NMR Spectrometer; a cryogen-free benchtop NMR system, has been designed to provide an upgradable platform for versatile NMR spectroscopy applications. The latest upgrade enables users to perform both fluorine and proton measurements on the same sample without the need for complicated retuning of the probe as may be required in alternative commercial systems...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, have installed the new Spinsolve compact NMR spectrometer at the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research, part of the Temple University School of Pharmacy.

The Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research is home to a talented and enthusiastic group of scientists. The team is dedicated to facilitating collaborative research efforts to support the discovery and development of novel therapeutic agents to improve the health and life of patients. The Moulder Center serves as a multidisciplinary research hub for the further development of scientific discoveries identified by Temple University faculty and scientists, enabling their research to move beyond the lab and into the broader research community...

Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, introduced the Spinsolve™ compact NMR spectrometer at Pittcon 2013 in Philadelphia, USA.

This benchtop instrument brings fast, high-resolution NMR spectroscopy to the chemistry bench and the chemistry classroom. Initial sales have been made to university groups and companies in Australia, Europe and the USA. For chemistry education, the ability to make a meaningful measurement and get on and off the instrument in about one minute redefines how NMR can be incorporated into the teaching laboratory....