Department Facilities

Chemistry & Biochemistry Facilities

• Approx. 18,000 square feet of research and teaching laboratory space

• Computational Chemistry Lab (equipped with iMacs and configured for teaching)

• Prevo Science Library (excellent holdings and extensive electronic access to journals)

Equipment available for student use includes: 

• NMR (JEOL ECZ 400 MHz multinuclear NMR with autosampler)

• FT-IR (Nicolet 380)

• HPLC (Dionex HPLC with PDA)

• HPLC (ThermoElectron Accela HPLC)

• MS (Thermofinnigan LCQ Advantage, can be plumbed to either HPLC)

• Atomic absorption (Varian SpectrAA 220 FS)

• Thermogravimetric analysis (TA TGA Q50)

• Digital scanning calorimetry (TA DSC Q10)

• Microwave digester (CEM Mars5)

• Electrochemical equipment (analytical)

• UV-Vis-Fluorescence 96 well-plate reader (CLARIOstar)

• Ocean Optics UV and UV-Vis spectrophotometers (several)

• Cary UV-Vis spectrophotometer

• Cold rooms

• -80 Freezer

• Centrifuges (Eppendorf 5810R and Beckman-Coulter Avanti J-E)

• Lyophylizer (Labconco FREEZONE 4.5)

• Autoclave