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 Spectrometers

Bruker Advance lll 400 MHz, with BACS-60 Autosampler
Bruker Advance Neo 500 MHz with Sample Case-24

Mass Spectrometers

Shimadzu IT-TOF LC-HRMS
Shimadzu AXIMA MALDI-TOF
2 Shimadzu QP2020NX GC-MS
2 sHIMADZU QP2010 GC-MS

Spectrophotometers

201 Thermo Genesys 20/30 visible spectrophotometers
10 Jasco 530/550/560 UV/Vis Spectrophotometers
10 Agilent Cary 60 UV/Vis Spectrophotometers
Varian Cary 50 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Agilent 8454 diode array UV/Vis spectrophotometer
Jasco J-720 circular dichroism spectrophotometer
Fluorolog lll Spectrophotometer
2 Jasco FP-6200 fluorometers
Varian Eclipse  fluorometer
4 Thermo iS10/370/4700 FT-IR spectrometers
Varian AA240FS flame atomic absorption spectrometer
Varian GTA120/AA2400Z graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer

Chromatographs

Varian 3700 Gas Chromatograph/TCD
Agilent 1100 HPLC
Agilent 1200 HPLC
Shimadzu LC-2030 HPLC
Shimadzu LC-20AP prep HPLC with PDA
Biotage Isolera flash chromatography System

Miscellaneous

2 Johnson Matthey magnetic susceptibility balance
Mettler Toledo DL-50 autotitrator
2 Mettler Toledo T-50 autotitrators
2 Metrhohm PGSTAT204 potentiostats with HDME

 

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.