Instrumentation
The department is housed in the Gottwald Center for the Sciences. The facility is shared with the biology and physics departments. There are over 50 teaching and research labs in the facility as well as a computer lab, and an abundance of modern instrumentation. Instrumentation used by undergraduates include FT-NMRs, FT-IRs, GC-MSs, UV-VISs including Diode Array, AAs, HPLCs, spectrofluorometers, a CD/ORD spectrophotometer, GCs, electrochemical equipment, ultracentrifuges, inert atmosphere chambers and a typical assortment of pH meters, spectrometers and balances. The various research labs contain an assortment of lasers, vacuum systems, inert atmosphere boxes, cryogenic equipment and computer and analytical instrumentation.
The chemistry department realizes the importance of maintaining state-of-the-art equipment. Below is a partial list of major pieces of equipment in the chemistry department. All of the equipment is available for student use. Students learn to use the instruments in laboratory classes and are then free to use them in their research projects.
NMRs
Bruker 500 MHz NMR
Bruker 300 MHz NMR
EM 390 FT 90 MHz NMR
Mass Spectrometers
Bruker Bio TOF-Q MS, LC-MS
Bruker Omniflex MALDI-TOF
3 Shimadzu Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometers
Agilent 6980 Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer
Spectrophotometers
21 Thermo Spectronic 20 Vis Spectrophotometers
14 Jasco UV/Vis Spectrophotometers
Varian Cary UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Agilent Diode Array UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Circular Dichroism Spectrophotometer
Fluorolog III Spectrophotometer
2 Jasco Fluorometers
PicoQuant Lifetime Scanning Fluorometer
5 Nicolet/Thermo Avatar Infrared Spectrometers
Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Varian duo Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Chromatographs
3 Hewlett-Packard Gas Chromatographs
3 Varian 3900 Gas Chromatographs
Waters HPLC
Agilent 1100 Series HPLC
5 Radial Chromatrons
Biotage Flash Chromatography System
Miscellaneous
EPR Spectrometer
Microcal Isothermal Titration Calorimeter
Microcal Differential Scanning Calorimeter
2 Johnson Matthey Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
Mettler Toledo DL-50 Autotitrator
Mettler Toledo TM-50 Autotitrator
2 EGG/PAR Electrochemical Analyzers
Galvanostat
Lumonics Excimer Laser
Biotage Initiator Microwave Reactor
Biotage Liberator Microwave Reactor
Wyatt Technologies Dynamic Light Scattering Instrument
Sorvall Superspeed Centrifuge
Beckman Ultracentrifuge
Dry Boxes
2 Vacuum Atmospheres Drilab Glove Boxes
Computer Clusters
48-node dual Opteron 2.2GHz cluster; each node is equipped with 4 GB of RAM and a 80GB hard drive; communication between head and compute nodes is through a Gigabit Nortel Networks Baystack 5510 scalable switch.
24-node dual Athlon 2200+ cluster; each node is equipped with 512 MB of RAM and a 20GB hard drive; communication between head and compute nodes is through a 100 Mbps Netgear switch.
16-node Intel Pentium 4 2.80Ghz cluster; each node is equipped with 768 MB of RAM and a 80GB hard drive; communication between head and compute nodes is through a 100 Mbps 3-Com Superstack switch.
