Chemical Instruments
Major Instruments
The Chemistry department houses glassware (including 2 Schlenk lines for air-free synthesis), ovens (glassware, muffle, and vacuum), refrigerators and freezers, rotary evaporators, vacuum pumps, and other synthetic and experimental equipment. The building is also supplied with vacuum, natural gas, and reverse-osmosis purified water. The following instrumentation is also departmentally shared:
Spectroscopy
- 2 Ocean Optics visible range fiber optic spectrophotometers
- 6 Spectronic 20 Genesys spectrophotometers
- 4 Spectronic Genesys 5 spectrophotometers
- HP 8453 diode array UV-visible spectrophotometer
- Ocean Optics fiber optic fluorometer
- ThermoFisher iS10 FTIR with diamond ATR accessory and gas sampling cells
- Perkin-Elmer Optima 2000 DV inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer
Chromatography
- Agilent 1260 Quaternary Pump HPLC with autosampler and fraction collector
- HP 6890 gas chromatograph with FID and HP 5973 mass spectrometer detectors.