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.
NMR SPECTROSCOPY
Bruker Avance lll 400 MHz
Bruker Avance Neo 500 MHz
MASS SPECROMETRY
Shimadzu IT-TOF HRMS
Shimadzu AXIMA Confidence MALDI-TOF
Shimadzu QP2020NX GC-MS
SPECTROSCOPY
Perkin Elmer Avio 220 ICP-OES
Jasco J-720 circular dichroism spectrometer
Jasco FP-8550 fluorescence spectrometer
Agilent Cary 60 UV-vis
Agilent 8454 diode array UV-vis
Thermo iS10 ATR-FT-IR
Thermo 4700 FT-IR
CHROMATOGRAPHY
Shimadzu LC-2030 HPLC
Shimadzu LC-20AP prep PDA-HPLC
Biotage Isolera flash chromatography
MISCELLANEOUS
Johnson Matthey magnetic susceptibility balance
Mettler Toledo T-50 autotitrator
Metrohm PGSTAT204 HDME potentiostat
COMPUTER RESOURCES
The University of Richmond supports a centralized high performance computer cluster with hundreds of CPU cores and dozens of GPU. More information can be found here.
In addition, the chemistry department has a number of computationally equipped teaching and research laboratories.