Facilities and Equipment
LABORATORY SPACE
- Three labs for 100-level chemistry lab classes (everyday, general, and survey of chemistry)
- Four labs for upper-level chemistry lab classes (biochemistry, analytical, instrumental, organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry)
- Five labs for faculty research
- One shared instrumentation lab for teaching and for research
MOLECULAR & ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY
- Bruker ADVANCE II 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer
- Bruker Vertex 70 Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer with attenuated total reflection (ATR) accessory
- Bruker Alpha Platinum ATR-FTIR spectrophotometer
- Agilent 8453E ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectrophotometer (2x)
- Beckman Coulter DU 800 temperture controlled UV-vis spectrophotometer
- Buck Scientific PFP-7 Flame Photometer
- Hitatchi Z-6100 polarized Zeeman flame atomic absorption (FAA) spectrometer
- Thermo Electron IRIS Intrepid II XSP inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES)
- Thermo Electron Aminco Bowman II luminenscence spectrophotometer
- Perkin Elmer RamanStation 400F Raman spectrometer
- TeachSpin Earth’s Field NMR spectrophotometer and gradient/field coil system
CHROMATOGRAPHY & MASS SPECTROMETRY
- Waters MicroMass MX matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometer
- Agilent 6890N-5973 gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) with autosampler
- Agilent 6890N gas chromatograph (GC) with flame ionization (FID) and electron capture (ECD) detectors
- Shimadzu high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system: High pressure pump, column oven, diode-array (DAD), refractive index (RI) detectors
- Bio-Rad low pressure chromatography system: peristaltic pump, fraction collector, UV detector
- Thermo LTQ XL atmospheric pressure ionization (API) linear ion trap mass spectrometer
OTHER EQUIPMENT
- Princeton Applied Research Parstat 2273 Advanced Electrochemical System
- Millipore water purification systems (3)
- Milestone DMA 80 Direct Mercury Analyzer
- Bio-Rad Gene Cycler PCR thermo cycler
- Candela SLL-250 Flashlamp-Pumped Dye Laser system
- Spectra-Physics Quanta-Ray Nd:YAG Laser system
- Gel electrophoresis units
- Multiple rotary evaporators, ovens, digesters, and centrifuges