Starting as a new student

When you start as a new student, there will be a lot of information to process, forms to sign and trainings to follow. This page was created to help you gain an overview of the things that need to be done. There are a few things you will have to take care of yourself, preferably before starting the internship:

• Obtaining a Radboud campus card with an S/U/E number. If you do not have such a card yet and are not a student from the Radboud, you can contact sa@dpo.ru.nl with your request. They will want a picture from you for on the campus card. They will contact you when you can pick it up (used to be at the Erasmus building (E 19.02).
• A science account, which you can get from C&Cz. You will need this account in order to access the VPN and get your mass/NMR spectra. A guide for obtaining a science account is found at here. If you are reading this page from the Wiki than the Science account corresponds to the SAML login you used to access this wiki.

Registration & Access to the wings

In order to work in the department of synthetic organic chemistry, you will have to register as an intern with our secretary Marieke Egbertzen (marieke.egbertzen@ru.nl). She will ask you to read & sign the following documents:

• The registration new employees, which you can fill in yourself and send to Marieke.
• The registration in wings Cluster Orgchem.docx for which you will need a signature from your supervisor.
• A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which you can fill in yourself and send to Marieke. the form's name currently is Declaration Guest researchers 2023.docx
• The checklist for new members of the Molecular Chemistry Cluster. This document declares that you have been introduced to everyone and have all the necessary rights etc. This should be signed of course after all these events have taken place.

After signing the forms, Marieke Egbertzen (marieke.egbertzen@ru.nl) will ensure you have access to the relevant wings (generally for our group wings 1,2,4,8 on the third floor of the Huygens building and the rooms on the third floor in Mercator 3). Keep in mind that as a student you can only access these wings during working hours and hence not in the evening or weekends. You should also be added to the relevant mailing lists (orgchem-group@science.ru.nl & rutjes-group@science.ru.nl). Please verify yourself that you have been added to these since important information will be communicated through those email lists.

Going into the lab

In order to go into the lab you need to take care of the following things:

• Complete the safety test. Prior to taking the test you need to acquaint yourself with the safety manual (found here) which requires a Science account.
• Obtain the relevant safety equipment such as a lab coat and safety goggles. These can be obtained from Hernando Tuñon (hernando.tunon@ru.nl) for working in Mercator and Samuel Bosma (samuel.bosma@ru.nl) for working in Huygens.
• Obtain a physical lab journal (in addition to penciles and other office supplies) can be acquired from the secretary office in Hg and from Hernando Tuñon (hernando.tunon@ru.nl) in M3.
• Gain access to the electronic lab notebook (ELN) for which we currently use chemotion. Daniel Blanco-Ania is the responsible person for this and can give you access. Hence, send an email to him or pass by his office. Important: as a student you need to share your ELN with your supervisor and you should close experiments after 3 weeks of completing them. A more extensive guide on using Chemotion can be found here.

Lab equipment access

Laboratory equipment such as mass spectrometers and NMRs are expensive and in high-demand with a lot of people in the university. Hence, you need training from the respective responsible person for the device and need to book a timeslot. The booking can be done at the booking portal, where you can login at the top right with your S/U/E number. All the relevant personnel per device can be found on that website, but as a student of the SOC you will at least need access for the equipment below.

NMR access

NMRs for general use are found in the Huygens (a 400 MHz and 500 MHz) and in M3. Generally the NMRs operate in automation mode, meaning you only need to add your sample to the que and your specified measurements will be performed automatically. Please ensure you submit your samples to the night-queue and not the day-queue when your measurement will take longer ~10 minutes. If you are the first to put in a sample to the night-queue you are responsible for starting the queue (please ask your supervisor how to this). You can access measured spectra at \\nmrspectra-srv.science.ru.nl\nmrspectra which you can add as an external drive to your pc and access via your science account.

MS access

There are various mass spectrometers available to SOC but most students will only manually operate the ISQs. A guide on how to operate the ISQs can be found here, which you will need to read prior to getting training for the ISQs. After measuring your MS samples, you can retrieve the results either directly from the computers or via \\msspectra-srv.science.ru.nl\msspectra by adding this external drive to your pc and access via your science account