Instrumentation
Chemistry students routinely use sophisticated instrumentation, including a Bruker multinuclear 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a Varian Vista MPX inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectrometer, and an IonSpec HiRes Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI)-Fourier Mass Spectrometer (FTMS). The MALDI- FTMS is the only instrument of its kind at an undergraduate institution.
The department maintains a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art instrumentation that are kept up-to-date and are maintained by our instrument support technician, who also provides training on all instruments.
Instrument Support Technician Page
Instument Instruction Page
Other departmental resources include a microwave digestion system (CEM Mars5), freeze dryer (Labconco), surface area analyzer (Gemini), an atomic absorption spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer 2380), facilities for time- resolved luminescence and low temperature (4.2 K-room temperature) optical spectroscopy and a Vacuum Atmospheres inert-atmosphere workstation with an integrated gas purification system. The department has its own laboratory computers which are available to students for advanced molecular modeling and computational chemistry using the programs Spartan, Gaussian, and Amsterdam Density Functional. These computers form an integral part of advanced coursework and are used extensively in student research projects.
