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Structural and Molecular Analysis (ASM)

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Technical and scientific expertise

  • Structural characterisation
  • Establishment of methodologies
  • Feasibility tests
  • Analysis and interpretation

Main equipment

  • Chromatography (HPLC/GC)
  • Mass spectrometry (MS)
  • NMR (liquid)
  • X-ray diffraction (single crystal/powder)

Get an overview of the platform’s facilities via a virtual tour.

Applications

  • Separation of chemical compounds from a mixture
  • Development of new analytical methods
  • Analysis of organic compounds, complexes, metabolites, peptides, etc.
  • Quantitative determination by MS and MS-MS
  • Structural characterisation of organic, inorganic and organometallic molecules as well as macromolecular systems or mixtures of molecules in solution
  • Understanding reaction mechanisms
  • Study of dynamic phenomena such as chemical exchange or association of molecules
  • Determination of the structure of single crystals and chemical compounds (organic and inorganic molecules, macromolecular complexes, etc.)

Services available to

  • UCLouvain students and researchers
  • Non-UCLouvain parties

  • 14 April 2025
    ASM - NMR supported by the Wallonia Recovery Plan
    As part of the Wallonia Recovery Plan and the BIOGREEN Platform of Excellence, the ASM platform has just acquired two new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers.
  • 14 April 2025
    ASM - Advanced characterization of molecules from small to large molecular weights
    To boost research in the fields of chemistry, biology and materials science, a new high-resolution mass spectrometer (HRMS) coupled with Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) has just been installed within the ASM platform.
  • 13 June 2023
    ASM acquires a new NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectrometer
    Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is one of the most widely used analytical techniques to detect, identify and quantify a large number of organic and inorganic molecules, polymers as well as supramolecular and biological systems.