Recommended Blogs/Links : (more)
   Stan's NMR Blog (news/articles)
   Ottawa NMR -Glenn Facey (great tips)
   Windsor blog -Schurko lab (lit highlights)
   NMR periodic table. (data on nuclei)
   NMR Information Server. (announcements)    

News : (Archived group news)
- Castle and Rovnyak teaching Spec Fall '12!
- ACS Philadelphia Meeting Coming up 
- MARM 2012 at UMBC May 31-June 2
 - ISC at Bloomsburg April 14, 2012
 - NEPA NMR Conference Oct 22, 2011
   
Links:
  David Rovnyak
   NEPA NMR Conference
   Downloads : NMR Education

 Group : (group alums)
Claire Ouimet - micelles (B.S. 2014)
Kendall Sandy - micelles (B.S. 2013)
Riju Gupta (Chem '14) - sampling
Melissa Palmer (B.S. Chem '13) -sampling

Summer '07 Pic , Summer '06 Pic

Recent Publications:

Rovnyak, D., Sarcone, M.S., Jiang, Z.,"Sensitivity Enhancement for Maximally Resolved Two-Dimensional NMR Spectra by Nonuniform Sampling" Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 49(8), 483-491 (2011). Online

Kennedy, P.E, Francis, N., Rovnyak, D., Kastner, M.E., "Redetermination of cis-diaquadiglycolatozinc(II)", Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online E64, 1635 (2008). Online

D. Rovnyak, Kennedy, P.E, "Application of shaped adiabatic pulses to MQMAS spectrsoscopy of Spin 3/2 nuclei", Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 196, 191-199 (2009). DOI

Christine M. Hebling, Laura E. Thompson, Kyle W. Eckenroad, Gregory A. Manley, Roderick A. Fry, Karl T. Mueller, Timothy G. Strein, David Rovnyak, "Sodium Cholate Aggregation and Chiral Recognition of the Probe Molecule (R,S) 1,1’-binaphthyl-2,2’ diylhydrogenphosphate (BNDHP) Observed by 1H and 31P NMR Spectroscopy", Langmuir, 24, 13866-13874 (2008). Abstract

D. Rovnyak,"Tutorial on analytic theory for cross polarization in solid state NMR", Concepts Magn. Reson. Part A, 32, 254-276 (2008).
Abstract

J. A. Kubat, J.J. Chou, D. Rovnyak,"Nonuniform sampling and maximum entropy reconstruction applied to the accurate measurement of residual dipolar couplings" J. Magn. Reson. 186, 201-211 (2007). (DOI link).

K. W. Eckenroad, L. E. Thompson, T.G. Strein, D. Rovnyak, "Proton NMR assignments for R,S-1,1-binaphthol (BN) and R,S-1,1-binaphthyl-2,2-diyl hydrogen phosphate (BNDHP) interacting with bile salt micelles", Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 45, 72-75 (2006). Abstract

Rovnyak, D., Thompson, L.E., Selzler, K.J., ”Experimentation with 15N enriched ubiquitin”, in Modern NMR in Education, Rovnyak, D., Stockland, R.A., eds, V969, 219-233 (2007).

D. Rovnyak, R. Stockland Jr., Eds,"Modern NMR Spectroscopy in Education", American Chemical Society Symposium Seres No. 969, Oxford University Press (2007). (on Amazon)



(Full publications list)


Group Alumni:

2012
  Paris Barkan (Neuro '12, premed)
  Brandy Taylor (M.S. Chem '12, TBA)
  Broc Wenrich

2011
  Thomas Mann (CHM '11, Stanford)

2010
  Mark Sarcone (Bio '10)
  Lauren Manning (Bioch '10, Univ. Penn.)

2009
  Will Tsai (CHM '09)
  Ze Jiang (CHM/MATH '09)
  Alyson Cobb (CHM '09)

 2008
  Paul Kennedy(M.S. '10, Penn State)
  Greg Manley (CHM '08, Yale Ph.D.)
  Jayne Kubat (CHM '08, Cornell DVM)
  Meghan Monaghan (CHM '08, Washington & Lee Law School)

  2007
  Kyle Eckenroad (M.S. CHEM '07, Merck)
  Katie Selzler (BIO '07, Rochester Neuroscience Ph.D.)

  2006
  Lindsay Morris (CHM '06, ???)
  Laura Thompson (CHM '06, Univ. of Maryland)
  Matt Mosellen (CHM '06, George Mason Law)
  Michael Heinrich (CHM '06, Univ. Penn.)
  Brian Wilson (M.S. '06, Notre Dame)
  Jeff Stoltzfus (EE '06, ???)

  2004
  Jamie Brown (BIO '04, ???)

Archived Group News

  2009

  2008

  • DSR to present zinc results at EAS 2008
  • Welcome Jenna Yehl (M.S. '10) to team micelle
  • "Sodium Cholate Aggregation..." accepted
  • Best wishes to
    • Greg entering Yale for Ph.D.
    • Jayne entering Cornell forVmD
    • Meghan going into public policy & law
  • Summer research 2008 underway!
  • Alyson Cobb presents at MARM 2008

   2007

  • More Good NMR Links
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    Rovnyak Lab
    Department of Chemistry
    Bucknell University

    What is NMR? We thought you would never ask. This is what we came up with:

    "Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a crucial technique for non-invasively determining the shapes and structures of molecules and their interactions. NMR succeeds in discovering the structural characteristics of molecules by taking advantage of nuclei containing a magnetic property termed ‘spin’. NMR utilizes a strong magnetic field in order to manipulate the magnetic moments of the nuclei, thus revealing connections between atoms to establish a structure."


    Pictures Coming Soon!

    Group: Riju Gupta, Melissa Palmer, Kendall Sandy*, Claire Ouimet*, Adam Meier*, David Rovnyak
    (*with Strein lab)

    We are a biophysical research group specializing in the application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to biological problems. We are active in the following areas:

    1. We perform fundamental studies with solid state zinc NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography in collaboration with the Kastner lab. Zinc-67 is one of the most difficult of all NMR nuclei to study! See also (4).

      

    2. We collaborate with the Strein lab to understand the chirally selective solvation of binaphthyl compounds by bile salt micelles. This project includes fundamental studies to gain deeper insight into micelle formation by bile salts.

      

    3. We develop and disseminate laboratory and course experiences that effectively introduce undergraduate students to NMR. See our NMR Education Link for more info and dowloads.

     

    4. We are investigating the use of alternative data sampling and processing to accelerate and enhance the acquisition of multi-dimensional NMR data.