The Chemistry Department's 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR) utilizes a superconducting magnet cryostated at 4 Kelvin to probe the structure of organic and organometallic molecules.

Major Equipment Holdings in the Department of Chemistry General Specific Manufacturer & Model Spectrometers Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Bruker Avance DPX 400 (400MHz) with z-axis gradient and 2 multinuclear probes Liquid Chromatograph-Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer Varian 500MS Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer Hewlett-Packard 5973C and 5971A Atomic Absorption Varian 220FS Ultraviolet/Visible Cary 5000, Hewlett-Packard 8453 Diode Array, (10) Beckman DU 650, (14) Ocean Optics Diode Array Infrared Nicolet iS5, iS10 Fluorescence HORIBA Jobin Yvon FluoroMax, (2) Perkin-Elmer LS50B, Perkin-Elmer LS5 Circular Dichromism Olis/Cary 16 Chromatographs Gas HP 5890, 5880A; Varian 3800 High Performance Liquid (2) Beckman System Gold; HP 1090; Waters A-500; BioRad BioLogic LP; GE Healthcare AKTA FPLC Ion Dionex 4500i Electrochemical Potentiostats/Analyzers EG&G 264A, 273A, 303A, 263; BAS CV27 Capillary Electrophoresis Beckman-Coulter P/ACE MDQ Surface-Science Scanning Tunneling Microscope NanoScope II, NanoScope E Atomic Force Microscope NanoScope III, Dimension 3100 Scanning Electron Microscope Hitachi SU-70 Langmuir-Blodgett Trough KSV 5000 Thermal Differential Scanning Calorimeter Perkin-Elmer DSC VII, Perkin-Elmer DSC II Microstill Perkin-Elmer M131T Osmometer Hewlett-Packard Quartz Thermometer Hewlett-Packard Optical Polarimeter Jasco P-1010 Polarizing Microscope Olympus BH-2 Light Scattering Light Scattering Photometer Wyatt Dawn EOS with Optilab Refractive Index Detector Vacuum Glove Box Braun UNIlab Vacuum Atmospheres HE-193-1 Freeze-Dryer FTS Systems Biochemical Ultracentrifuge Sorvall RC2-B, Beckman J2-HS Lasers Argon Ion/Dye Coherent Inova 90 Nitrogen/Dye PTI, PSI Helium/Cadmium Omnichrome Helium/Neon Spectra Physics Optical Parametric Oscillator Opotek Vibrant Tunable Laser System Computational Workstations (5) Dell Precision 530 dual 2.20 GHz Xeon processor Linux workstations