Instrumentation
Our department has a variety of equipment for students to use in
laboratory course work and in faculty mentored undergraduate
research. The equipment is meant to provide students with a
hands-on experience in sample preparation, data collection and data
analysis. Students may begin to use instrumentation as early as
second semester of their first year of study, but will routinely
use the instrumentation during upper level laboratory courses.
In addition to small equipment (such as pH meters) the
department maintains the following larger equipment for student and
faculty use:
Synthetic equipment
- Multiple vacuum manifolds
- Schlenk glassware
- Explosion - proof refrigerators
- Chromatotron radial chromotagraph
- MBraun Solvent Purification System
Microwave reactors
- CEM Discover Labmate
- CEM MARS Multiuser
IR spectrometers
- Nicolet Impact 400 FTIR
- Digilab FTS 40 FTIR
- BioRad FTS700 FTIR
- Nicolet Avatar 370 FTIR
NMR
- Bruker AVANCE 250 MHz NMR with BVT variable temperature unit
and multinuclear, 1H and dual 1H / 13 C 5mm probes
Spectrometers
- Cary 50 UV/Vis
- Perkin Elmer 6000 ICP spectrometer
- Perkin Elmer 305B AA spectrometer
- PSA atomic fluorescence spectrophotometer
- Perkin Elmer LS55 Fluorimeter with plate reader
Separation Instrumentation
- Varian Saturn 2000 GC/MS/MS
- HP5989A mass spectrometer with direct inlet capabilities
- HP1050 series HPLC system
- Alltech 726 quaternary HPLC pump with UV detector
- Novex XCell II and Gibco BRL electrophoresis apparatus
Electrochemical Equipment
Other
- Laser Photonics Nitrogen Laser, Dye Laser, and Frequency
doubler
- FEI Model E3 Environmental SEM with Oxford Instruments ISIS
surface X-ray analysis
- Sorval RC28S centriguge
- Instrument Specialists Inc (ISI) Differential Scanning
Calorimeter Model DSC 550
- So - Low PH85-5 -80°C freezer
- BioCold chromtography refrigerator
Chemistry Department Student Computer Laboratories
The department maintains a computer laboratory for student use.
Computers in the laboratory are on the University Ethernet Network,
and students have access to the laser printers, the University's
VAX and UNIX systems, the Iliad Butler Library access, and the
internet. In addition, the University has student computer
laboratories (MAC and PC) for teaching and student use.
Special Computers Systems in the Department of
Chemistry
- Three (3) Silicon Graphics O2 Computer system
- Silicon Graphics Personal Iris Computer system