Facilities

• Newly renovated general chemistry laboratory. Designed with 16 student stations, one ADA student station, 2 students per hood, 4 networked computers, digital pan balances, analytical balances, chemical storage, ten solid state Spectronic 20 spectrophotometers, TI CBL data acquisition systems, and discussion/conference area.

• Newly renovated organic chemistry laboratory. Designed with 16 student stations, one ADA student station, 2 students per hood, centrifuge, and discussion/conference area.

• Newly renovated undergraduate research laboratory. Includes 2 hoods, refrigerator, freezer, two rotary evaporators, and dishwasher.

• Temperature controlled instrument room. High Resolution 300 MHz QE-300 NMR with Tecmag data system, Finnigan 4000 GC/MS with Tecnivent data system and HP 5890 GC, 1 hood, science server.

• Instrument room. Chromatography and spectroscopy instrumentation (Gradient HPLC, 2 HP 5890 GCs with FID detector, Nicolet Avatar FTIR, HP 8450 Diode array UV/VIS, Dionex DX-100 Ion chromatograph, Chromperfect chromatography data acquisition software.

• Analytical lab. Designed for small upper division courses. Includes 6 hoods, analytical balances, Fisher Automatic titration system, digital and analog pH meters and networked computers.

• Physical chemistry lab. Designed for small upper division courses. Includes a hood, analytical balances, electrochemistry instrumentation, Parr Solution Calorimeter, Parr Bomb Calorimeter, and centrifuge.

• Computer lab. 12 Windows 2000 computers with Zip drive, CD-RW, internet access and high speed duplex printer. Used for classes, labs, and open student use.

Instrumentation

• QE-300 300 MHz FTNMR with Tecmag Data system and 5mm Dual probe for 1H and 13C experiments. Used for 1D proton, 1D carbon, DEPT, COSY, HETCOR, and TIIR experiments. (photo)
• VG 70-SE high-resolution double focusing mass spectrometer with HP 5890 GC. Used for high resolution exact mass experiments. (photo)
• Finnigan 4000 mass spectrometer with Tecnivent data system and HP 5890 GC for routine GC/MS experiments. (photo)
• Nicolet Avatar Fourier Transform IR spectrometer with 1 cm^-1 resolution. Used for organic structural analysis and greenhouse gas studies. (photo)
• Dionex DX-100 ion chromatograph. Used for anion and cation analysis of environmental samples. (photo)
• Varian HPLC with gradient pump, autosampler, UV/VIS, fluorescent and refractive index detectors. Used for undergraduate research and upper division chemistry courses. (photo)
• Waters high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) system. (photo)
• 4 Hewlett Packard 5890 gas chromatography systems with an autosampler, purge and trap system, FID detectors and a pulse discharge detector. Used for undergraduate research and upper division chemistry courses. (photo)
• 4 Gowmac student gas chromatography systems.
• HP 8450A Diode array ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometer. ( photo)
• EG&G PAR 263A potentiostat with 303 dropping mercury electrode, 507 controller, and assorted solid electrodes.
• Perkin Elmer 5000 Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometer. (photo)
• Spectrovision scanning fluorescence detector with A-D interface for computer control and data acquisition.

Software

• ACD Chemsketch
• ACD HNMR and CNMR
• ACD and Aldrich FTNMR library
• Mathcad
• Gaussian 98 with Gaussview
• Linux server (web, ftp, gaussian, pop mail)
• Microsoft Office
• Lotus 123

Additional Equipment

• Home-built vibrating sample magnetometer
• Scanning infrared spectrophotometer
• Single beam ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometer
• Dual-beam ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometer
• Varian EM 360A nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR)
• ThermoElectric NOx analyzer.