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ROAR now runs a walk-up LCMS service for our internal user community. Trained users may submit their own samples onto our walk-up LCMS, select from one of ROAR’s pre-approved methods, and the sample sequence goes into the run queue automatically. Our walk-up LCMS includes a column selector with ROAR’s C18, C8 and PFP columns fitted as standard but please do check the signage at the instrument for the currently available columns. There is no need to book your LCMS analysis in advance but please do remember to always log your sample order on PPMS (Agilent 1260 UPLC/SFC-MS Sample Analysis on the ) so that we know how many samples to bill to your group. Internal users can request training and access to our walk-up LCMS system by joining the and dropping us a message there. 

Access to ROAR’s UPLC-QTOF is primarily for high-throughput analysis of large sample sets (i.e. > 48), usually generated using reactor platforms in ROAR. For analysis of smaller sample sets please make use of ROAR’s walk-up LCMS or refer to the Agilent Measurement Suite.  

Please complete the in the first instance and the ROAR team will be in contact

The ROAR Team will always announce on the about lab closures and instrument downtime. Please check this in advance of instrument usage. 

We have not required researchers at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø to apply for access to ROAR through a proposal process. Once the ROAR Access Form has been completed and plans discussed with the ROAR Team, users of ROAR capital equipment just need to have a plan for your experiment(s) and have signed off Reaction Risk Assessments in LabArchives.

ROAR Access Form should still be completed for access to small equipment at ROAR – the ROAR Small Equipment Declaration on PPMS must be also signed.

Please refer to our Access ROAR page for more information, including access for external academic and commercial/industrial researchers.

If you are experiencing a problem during your booked session on the ROAR equipment then please speak to a team member in person or email roar@imperial.ac.uk. We will aim to respond as swiftly as possible but please note that there will be times when ROAR team members are not available to respond immediately, and priority is given to users which have pre-arranged to have ROAR support during their booking.

To get the most out of your training on any ROAR instrument we recommend that you first develop a plan for your experiments and share this with the ROAR team via completion of the ROAR Access Form.

If you are interested in standalone training on any of ROAR’s instruments, then please complete the ROAR Access Form and the ROAR Team will get back to you. Please note that attendance of any ROAR training does not automatically grant you autonomous access to our equipment.

Training for the ROAR small equipment is very quick and autonomous access approval can be obtained quickly. The training needs on ROAR’s capital equipment can however be much higher and you will need to be able to demonstrate to the ROAR team that you can operate the equipment safely and competently for your project before you will be granted autonomous access.

There might be different reasons for this:

• You are using the US website instead of the UK website. Make sure you are logging in (if you are in www.mynotebook.labarchives.com, then you are in the US version of the website).
• You signed up for a LabArchives account directly through website instead of following the link in the email. You should have received an email from LabArchives after your account was set up. Please follow the link to activate your account. If you haven’t receive the email (check also the Spam folder), contact the ROAR team (roar@imperial.ac.uk) and we will create the account for you.
• Two different forms of your email address are used to create the account and to access it. Please use the same form of email address to access the account as was used to create your account (commonly, this is the email address you provided to create the account in the first instance).

If none of these fixes your problem, contact the ROAR team (roar@imperial.ac.uk) or the LabArchives support (support@labarchives.com)

In-situ monitoring of reactions under pressure is technically challenging and requires specialist equipment. Within ROAR we have the Optimisation Sampling Reactor (OSR) which can take samples, for offline LC or GC analysis, and measure gas uptake from 8 batch reactions at up to 200 °C and 27 bar. Our ReactIR and FlowUV can also be used with flow cells to monitor flow reactions at up to 34 bar pressure.

In-situ spectroscopy of high-pressure batch reactions is not currently possible in ROAR. If you would like to access this capability at ROAR then please contact roar@imperial.ac.uk to explore possibilities for ROAR to acquire this capability.