The MWSU Chemistry Department maintains a large array of advanced instrumentation.  Students begin using equipment in the General Chemistry I course, CHE 111.  The use of instrumentation to investigate chemical problems is continued through the curriculum in order to adequately prepare students for the work place or for advanced education.  

Please click on the links below to see pictures of and read about each piece of equipment.

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION

• Bruker AVANCE 300 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer
• Three Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometers including a Bio-Rad Excalibur Series FTIR and a Nicolet Impact 400D FTIR.
• Varian Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
• Cary BIO100 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
• Hitachi U-2000 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY

• Perkin-Elmer AAnalyst 300 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
• Leeman Labs, Inc. Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Spectrophotometer

SEPARATIONS

• Three High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Systems including a Hitachi Instruments LaChrom2000 system
• Two Hewlett Packard Bench top GC-MS
• Tekmar LSC 2000 Purge and Trap
• Three General Purpose Gas Chromatograph Systems

ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS

• ECO CHEMIE mAutolab Type II General Purpose Electrochemical System
• EG&G Princeton Applied Research Polarographic Analyzer

COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS

• Gateway Server with an Intel Dual-Core processor running at 3.0 GHz, 8 GB of MD-RAM
• Guassian 03 Computational Chemistry Software Package
• Guassview
• AMBER 9.0 Computational Chemistry Software Package

MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT

• Sonics VibraCell Ultrasonic Processor/ Cell Disruptor
• American Scientific Products Omnifuge RT Refrigerated Centrifuge
• Millipore MILLI-Q Water System
• Dry Box