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
• Olis Circular Dichroism Spectrometer
• 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
• Rudolph Research Analytical Autopol I Automatic Polarimeter

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY

• Perkin-Elmer AAnalyst 300 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer

SEPARATIONS

• Three High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Systems including a Hitachi Instruments LaChrom2000 system
• Varian dual column GC with MS and FID detection
• Varian 450-GC with FID and Ion Trap Detection
• Two Hewlett Packard 5890/5971 Bench top GC-MS
• Tekmar LSC 2000 Purge and Trap
• Three General Purpose Gas Chromatograph Systems with TCD and FID detectors
• Home Built Capillary Electrophoresis System with Fluorescence Detection

ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS

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

AUTOMATATED DATA COLLECTION

• All laboratories are equipped with Microlab FS-522 data collection interfaces.

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