Received by BAMS on March 2, 2006:
Wanted: Working GC/MS instrument
with
autosampler, EI and CI capabilities, and software
The
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at San Francisco State
University provides high
quality education and valuable job skills to over 400 currently
enrolled undergraduate
and 30 graduate students. We currently
use a Finnigan ITS40 GC/MS instrument in several upper division lab
classes and
to support a variety of student research projects. It is now more
than 14 years old, spare parts
are becoming harder to find, and our students would greatly benefit
from the
use of newer technology. Given very
limited department and college funds, our university has not been able
to
provide the approximately $80,000 required to purchase the desired
instrumentation. While we have submitted
no less than five different grant proposals which included requests for
replace
this instrument, none of these have been funded to date. Given
the relatively large numbers of MS
manufacturers and companies using MS in the Bay Area, it would be a
wonderful
gesture if one of these would be willing to donate an older or demo
model of
such an instrument to our University, which could use this more modern
equipment to train future generations of scientists. While we do
not wish to "look a gift horse
in the mouth", we'd ideally like to have a newer instrument which
minimally would include an autosampler, EI and CI capabilities, a quad
or ion
trap mass analyzer, and a data system.
Please contact Dr. Pete Palmer, associate chair (phone: 415-338-7717,
email: palmer@sfsu.edu) for more information, and thank you in advance
for your
time and consideration.
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