In the spring of 1999, the Department of Chemistry completed a nearly $1 million dollar upgrade to the NMR Center. Funding from the National Science Foundation and the University enabled the Department to purchase three new spectrometers and renovate the laboratory. The department now houses state of the art spectrometers that are unrivaled in the region.

500 MHz Varian Inova with triple axis gradients
400 MHz Varian Inova with Z-axis gradients
300 MHz Varian Mercury with Z-axis gradients

All instruments have variable temperature capabilities and employ the latest processing software.

The NMR Spectrometer Center is the central component of the Organic Spectroscopy Laboratory (OSL), which also includes the departmental GC-MS and FT-IRs. An intergral part of the OSL's (and primarily the NMR Center's) success has been Daniel Wanner whom joined the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology in 1990 and in 1992 assumed the position of OSL facility manager. It is through his dedication as a teacher, that Daniel instructs and aids those utilizing the OSL facility.

Protein NMR Specialist, Dr. John Bagu, joined NDSU in 2005 and is the director of the NMR Spectroscopy Laboratory.

The Department's HP GC-Mass Spectrometer has recently been upgraded to afford high-mass (2000) analysis and the latest computer control. Also on board is a Nicolet Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer. EI, CI, and direct insertion inlets are available. The department also houses a Nicolet FTMS-1000 Fourier transform Mass Spectrometer for ion-molecule reaction chemistry. FTIR instruments are also available for research.