Facilities

Lab Space

Research in our group occupies two lab spaces in Doane C204 and C208 (~800 sq ft) that are fully outfitted for synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry (air-free glassware, rotary evaporator, distillation equipment etc.)  The labs are equipped with three fume hoods, two of which contain Schlenk lines for manipulation of air-sensitive materials.

The C204 lab has a Vacuum Atmospheres Omni glove box with oxygen and water sensors as well as a -40oC freezer for recrystallization.  There is also a secondary vacuum pump and trap for reaction work-up (filtration and solvent removal) inside the box.

Departmental Instrumentation

There is a variety of shared instrumentation available in the chemistry department. In particular, our group

heavily utilizes our 400 MHz JEOL NMR spectrometer that was recently upgraded in December of 2017 thanks to funding from an NSF-MRI grant.  It has a normal geometry PFG Royal probe, auto-tune and match unit and 24 slot auto sample changer for quick collection of spectra. In addition to routine 1H and 13C{1H} experiments we also regularly carry out 31P{1H} experiments and more recently 19F and 11B{1H} experiments. The new upgrades now allow us to run 1H{31P} experiments and even collect 1H NMR spectra in non-deuterated solvents! We also run DEPT and 2D HETCOR and COSY experiments for structure elucidation of more complicated molecules.