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Chemistry Department Facilities and Resources:
The department's facilities are well equipped with modern instrumentation for both education and research. Students have the opportunities to operate all these instruments in their classes and while conducting independent research. Each research group has the extensive instrumentation required for modern research in chemistry. Some major instruments, however, are located in facilities that can be shared by all research groups in the department. In addition to the instrumentation the department also houses a state-of-the-art computational facility for the use of class room instructions, student and faculty research needs.
Department Instrumentation
- Varian Gemini 200 MHz NMR spectrometer with a single probe
- Eppendorf micro, Fisher benchtop, Beckman Optima Max ultracentrifuge,
- Millipore MilliQ water purification system
- Radiometer pH meter
- Analytical and bench top balances
- Amicon micro-ultra filtration sample concentrator
- Labconco benchtop lyophilizer
- Beckman ultracentrifuge
- BioCad chromatography system
- Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectroscopy
- Atomic absorption spectrometers
- HP8452 Diode Array UV-Vis spectrophotometer
- Fourier Transform IR (FTIR)
- Pye-Unicam
- Lambda 6 and Cary 17D UV-VIS spectrophotometers
- Spectrofluorometer
- Radiation equipment
- Liquid scintillation counter
- Liquid chromatographs
- Gas chromatographs
- Thermo ultralow freezer (-80oC)
- Tissue culture hoods & incubators
- 7 Solvent Purification System from Innovative Technologies
- Epsilon Electrochemical Workstation with Digisim software from BAS
- Collegiate "V" Rotary Evaporation System
- Vacuum atmospheres glovebox with electrode ports
- Johnson Matthey Magnetic Susceptibility balance
- 6 Vacuum manifolds for inert atmosphere synthesis
- Karl-Fischer titrator from Mettler Toledo
- Inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometer;
- Nitrogen laser, dye-laser, krypton ion laser, and argon ion laser;
- Microwave induced plasma generators.
- compound microscope,
- Two genetic analyzers,
- PCR machine, real-time PCR machine,
- Robotic DNA extraction workstation.
Computational Resources:
- AMD Athlon 4 processor Linux computer: 1.6 GHz Althon processors with 16 GB (MB) of memory and 240 Gigabytes (GB) of disk space
- AMD Athlon dual processor Linux computer: 2.2 GHz Athlon64 3500+ processors with 8 GB of memory and 120 GB of disk space and Chemical modeling software: Gaussian03 (Gaussian Inc., Pittsburg, PA): Ab initio quantum chemistry software, Amber 9.0 (San Francisco, CA): Molecular dynamics software. Several open source modeling and data analysis software (GAMESS, MOPAC, MOLDEN, GROMACS, R, Bioconductor, WebMO and Scilab).
- Several Windows desktop computers for data analysis and word processing.