Facilities

A good education in chemistry must of necessity include exposure to a variety of modern chemical instrumentation. In recent years the department has acquired a significant amount of new equipment and instrumentation, funded by the University, or by external sources via successful grant applications. The instrumentation is used extensively in undergraduate classes, as well as by students and faculty involved in research.

The Chemistry Computer Laboratory

A successful NSF/ILI grant application provided funds for the development of a Chemistry computer laboratory, housed in a refurbished classroom (PS 202) on the second floor of the physical Sciences building. The room houses the departmental web server, and a server that runs 14 workstations in the room, plus several in a satellite room on the 3rd floor (PS 319). The server runs the Windows 2000 operating system. The laboratory is used in many classes, and is heavily used by students to write reports etc.

Visit the chemistry computer lab webpage

Externally Funded Equipment:

In 1994 a successful NSF/ILI grant application allowed the purchase of a JEOL Eclipse 270 FT-NMR spectrometer, replacing the long inoperative Varian 100 that was acquired when the Physical Sciences building was built. The JEOL has been recently upgraded. The spectrometer is controlled by the current version of the the Delta operating system, and the original SGI workstation has been upgraded to a PC running LINUX.

In 1997, a successful application to the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation led to the purchase of a Shimadzu GC-16A/MSD Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer. This instrument has been used extensively in upper and lower division organic laboratory classes.

Other Equipment

With the opening of the new Chemical Sciences Building (September 2005), the Department is making a number of major new equipment purchases. As of January 2005, the department equipment list is shown below.

 

Department Instrumentation

Instrument	Approx. cost	Year Purchased
Jasco Spectrum One FTIR spectrometer	15,000	2004
Milestone START Microwave synthesis system	22,000	2004
Teledyne Tekmar-Dorhmann Apollo 9000 HS Total Organic Carbon Analyzer	31,000	2004
Zymark Turbo Vap 500 Workstation Concentrator	7,500	2004
Beckman Coulter MDQ HPCE with UV/Vis diode array detection	66,800	2002
Metrohm-Peak 761 IC	23,000	2002
Agilent 8453 UV/VIs diode array spectrophotometer	12.300	2002
Perkin-Elmer 2100 AA with HGA-17 graphite furnace	24,000	2001
Fluroescence/Imaging Microscope	16,600	2001
Intracellular Imaging Microscope	11,600	2001
Parr Bomb Calorimeter	14,500	2001
Phenix 96 Well Photometer	4,500	2001
Jobin Yvon Horiba FluoroMax-3 Flouresence spectrometer	38,000	2000
Barnstead Nanopure Walter Filtering System	2,900	2000
Model 280 Nitric Acid Analyzer	13,600	2000
Forma Carbon Dioxide Incubator	3,650	2000
Isoelectric Focusing System	6,200	2000
Bio-Rad Electrophoresis unit	1,858	1999
Sovall Ultracentrifuge	28,000	1999
Waters gradient semi-preparative HPLC w/UV/VIS and RI detect	30,000	1999
Mattson Genesis II FTIR spectrophotometer	17,000	1999
Shimazdzu 17A capillary Gas Chromatographs (2)	17,800	1999, 2001
Varian Cary 100 UV-Vis spectophometer	26,000	1999
Amersham Ph FPLC	20,000	1999
Rudolph Polarimeter	15,000	1999
Shimadzu GC-16A/MSD Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer	40,000	1997
JEOL Eclipse 270 FT/NMR spectrometer	198,000	1994 (upgraded 2000, 2002)
Mattson Galaxy 3000 FT-IR spectrometer	25,000	1994
Beckman DU7500 UV-VIS spectrophotometer	15,000	1993
Johnson Matthey MSB-1 magnetic susceptibility balance	3,245	1993
Shimadzu LC-10AS binary solvent HPLC with UV/VIS detector	25,000	1992
Shimadzu LC-10AS tertiary solvent HPLC w/UV/VIS, fraction collector and autosampler	40,000	1992
Princeton Applied Research 264A Voltammeter	11,000	1989
Mettler FP80 Thermal Analysis System	15,000	1988
Perkin-Elmer 8500 Gas Chromatograph	13,200	1986
Sargent Welch 5001 Polarograph	3,600	1986
Varian 2210 HPLC	15,100	1985
SPEX 1704 Scanning Spectrometer	4,600	1970

 

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