The 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 workplace or for advanced education. In general, students are taught instrumentation at three levels 1) an exposure to the instrumentation and the kinds of problems that can be solved with it, 2) a method development level/ use of the instrumentation to solve chemical problems and, 3) a theory and troubleshooting level.
SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
BIO100 UV/Vis
Olis Circular Dichorism Spectrometer
Bio-Rad Excalibur Series FTIR
Agilent Technologies Cary 630 FTIR
Fluorescence Spectrometer
Rudolph Research Analytical Autopol I Automatic Polarimeter
Perkin-Elmer AAnalyst 300 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
Bruker Avance 300 MHZ NMR
CHEMICAL SEPARATIONS
Hitachi Instruments LaChrom2000
Varian 450 dual column GC with MS and FID detection
Hewlett Packard 5890/5971 Bench top GC-MS
Tekmar LSC 2000 Purge and Trap
Home Built Capillary Electrophoresis System with Fluorescence Detection
Three HP 5890 Gas Chromatograph Systems with TCD and FID detectors
ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS
BASi Epsilon Electrochemical Workstation
EG&G Princeton Applied Research Polarographic Analyzer
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENNT
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
- Home-built 32-processor server with 64 GB of HD-RAM
- GAMESS Computational Chemistry Software Package
- Gaussian 09 Computational Chemistry Software Package
- Gaussview
- AMBER 11.0 Computational Chemistry Software Package
MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT
- Sonics VibraCell Ultrasonic Processor/Cell Disruptor
- American Scientific Products Omnifuge RT Refrigerated Centrifuge
- Barnstead Ultrapure Water System
- Dry Box
- Schlenk Lines