Department of Chemistry--Facilities

The Chemistry department strives to improve the quality and integrity of its instructional programs through its curriculum design, strength of faculty, program growth and purchase of state-of-the-art equipment. In the past several years, the department has acquired instruments and computers that are in common use in modern chemical laboratories.

Instruments

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HPLC Waters High Performance Liquid Chromatography system with diode array (multi wavelength) UV-VIS and Fluorescence detectors.  Columns for amino acid separations;  4 solvent gradient through low pressure mixing.

2 UV-VIS Diode Array Spectrohotometers  Agilent 8453   for routine UV-VIS and kinetics studies.

Spectrofluorometer JASCO Inc FP-750   

FT-IR

A JASCO FT/IR 410 is available for the use of research students.  The JASCO has a KBr beamsplitter and 0.9 cm^-1 resolution.

GC/MS

Gas Chromatography combined with Mass Spectrometry is a highly sensitive method for identification and quantification of:

• low levels of environmental contamination
• trace amounts of drugs and drug metabolites in the blood
• unknown compounds in reaction mixtures

FT-NMR

Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is used for determination of chemical structures. We are in the process of purchasing a 300MHz instrument.
 

Single Crystal X-ray diffractometer

Oxford Diffraction Xcalibur 3kW (Mo or Cu), Sapphire CCD detector with on a 4-circle kappa platform.  Liquid nitrogen cooled low temperature device allows samples to be cooled to 100K.
 

Computer Facilities

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The department shares a large computer facility, the Science Computing Center with the departments of Biology and Physics/Earth Science. This facility is composed of more than 20 desktop computers, half Macintosh G5's and half Pentium IV 1.6 GHz based. These machines have specific software for chemistry, biology and physics including molecular modeling software, mapping software and various science education programs. They also have a full complement of Microsoft Office software.

The chemistry department has integrated a large number of computers into the laboratory for data acquisition. These computers are used at all levels of instruction, from Introductory Chemistry to undergraduate research.

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