Instrumentation

The chemistry department maintains a wide array of modern chemical instrumentation to support both the laboratory courses and undergraduate research. The following is a partial listing of the major instruments.

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

• Varian EML360 upgraded with a Anasazi ETF-60 Pulse NMR Console
• Varian Mercury+ 400MHz NMR Spectrometer

UV-Visible Spectroscopy

• Shimadzu UV-Vis-NIR UV-3100 Spectrometer
• Varian Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR Spectrometer
• Thermo LabSystems Multiscan UV-Visible Spectrometer with plate reader

Fluorescence Spectroscopy

• Perkin-Elmer LS-5 Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
• Varian Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
• Turner Fluorometer
• Thermo LabSystems Fluoroscan Ascent Fluoremeter with incubator

Infra-red Spectroscopy

• 2 Perkin-Elmer FT-1600 Infrared Spectrometers
• Shimadzu 8400 FT-IR Spectrometer

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY

• GBC Avanta Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
• Perkin Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

MASS SPECTROMETRY

• Shimadzu QP-5000 Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer

CHROMATOGRAPHY

Gas Chromatography

• 3 Shimadzu GC-8 Gas Chromatographs with dual columns and TCD detectors
• Helwett-Packard 5890A Capillary Column GC with FID detector
• Gow-Mac Series 580 GC with dual columns and TCD detector

Liquid Chromatography

• Waters Breeze HPLC system with both UV and RI detectors