Major Instrumentation
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.
| General | Specific | Manufacturer & Model |
|---|---|---|
| Spectrometers | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | Bruker AvanceNEO 400 (400MHz) with z-axis gradient and 2 multinuclear probes |
| NMReady Table Top NMR | Nanalysis Corp. NMReady 60Pro | |
| Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer | (2) Packard 5973C | |
| Advion Expression Compact Mass Spectrometer (CMS) | Advion Inc. Advion Expression CMS | |
| Atomic Absorption | Varian 220FS | |
| Ultraviolet/Visible | Cary 5000, (10) Agilent Cary 60, (2) Hewlett-Packard 8453 Diode Array, (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 |
| High Performance Liquid | (2) Beckman System Gold; BioRad BioLogic LP; GE Healthcare AKTA FPLC | |
| Ion | Dionex AS50/GP50/ED450 | |
| Electrochemical | Potentiostats/Analyzers | EG&G 264A, 273A, 303A, 263; (2) CH Inst CHI1200B |
| Capillary Electrophoresis | Beckman-Coulter P/ACE MDQ | |
| Surface-Science | Atomic Force Microscope | NanoScope III, Dimension 3100 |
| Scanning Electron Microscope | Hitachi SU-70 with scanning tunneling electron microscopy (STEM) and energy-dispersive x-ray analyzer (EDX) | |
| Thermal | Differential Scanning Calorimeter | TA Instruments DSC 250 |
| 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 UNIlabVacuum 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 |