Laboratory Facilities

The Science Division received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the renovation of Biology and Chemistry research laboratories. With funds contributed by the University, the total cost of the renovation project exceeded over $3 million. The project has completed recently and the Chemistry Department now have 10 newly renovated laboratories with approximately 3300 square feet (310 square meters) of research space.

Equipment Available for Research and Teaching

Atomic Absorption

Varian 1275 Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

Computers for Computational Chemistry Research

IBM RS/6000 43P Model 150, PPC 604e 375 MHz with 512 Mb RAM
IBM RS/6000 43P Model 260, two Power3 200 MHz with 1 Gb RAM and over 70 Gb of scratch space
SGI Octane, two R10000 175 MHz 256 M RAM, 13 Gb hard drives, 4.6 Gb optical hard drive, 12X SCSI CD-ROM drive

Software includes: Felix, GAMESS, Gaussian98, Insight II, MOLPRO, PcModel, Wien97

Electrochemisty

EG&G PAR Polarographic Analyzer/Voltammeter, Model 264A with Mercury Electrode Stand

Gas Chromatography

HP 5890 Gas Chromatograph/5971 Mass Spectrometer
Perkin Elmer 1020 Autosystem Gas Chromatograph w/ autoinjector and FID
Varian 3700-I Gas Chromatograph w/ TCD
Varian 3700-II GC w/ TCD and FID and wide bore capillary column
GowMac Gas Chromatograph, 350 series w/ TCD, two of these

Infrared Spectrometry

Nicolet Magna 760 Broad Band (50-10,000 cm^-1) FT-IR
Nicolet Impact 400 FT-IR
Perkin Elmer 1310 IR Spectrophotometer
Perkin Elmer 457 IR Spectrophotometer
Perkin Elmer 137 IR Spectrophotometer

Liquid Chromatography

HP 1050 Liquid Chromatograph with Diode Array Detector and Autosampler
Knauer Liquid Chromatograph with Variable Wavelength UV Detector
Bioanalytical Systems LCB4 Electrochemical Detector

Magnetometer

Lakeshore Cryotronics Vibrating Sample Magnetometer

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry

Varian 400 MHz Inova NMR with

Broadband Tunable Solutions Probe to Monitor ¹H, ¹¹B, ¹³C, and ¹⁹F Nuclei
CPMAS Broadband Tunable Solids Probe
Pulsed Field Gradient Capability
3 Channels for Triple Resonance Monitoring
Sun SparcStation 5 Workstation

Thermal Analysis

Perkin Elmer DSC7/TGA7/DTA7 Thermal Analysis System
Bomb Calorimeter

UV-VIS Spectrophotometry

Perkin Elmer UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, Lambda 11
Beckman DB UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
Cary 118 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

X-Ray Diffraction

Scintag XI Powder Diffractometer

In addition to the above major equipment, the department has a wide range of standard equipment for chemical analysis, including: Gebbac Otomat 90 osmometer; Brookfield Instruments cone and plate viscometer; Beckman L5-50B ultracentrifuge; Damon/IEC refrigerated centrifuge; Denver microcentrifuge; Aminco-Morrow stopped flow spectrophotometer; electrophoresis equipment, polarimeter, analytical balances, vacuum drying ovens, vacuum lines, tensiometer, pH meters, etc.

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Updated Mar. 30, 2000, NM