There are eight chemistry laboratories serving the needs of analytical chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry and physical chemistry. These laboratories contain the following major equipment:
Major Instruments
- Jeol ECLIPSE 400 High Resolution 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer
- Performance Plus HP 6890 GC/MS
- Buck Scientific ACCUSYS 211 Flame & Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer + Autosampler.
- Bomem MB-100 & Perkin Elmer Spectrum One & 1600 series FT-IR Spectrometers
- Perkin Elmer HPLC Binary UV/Vis System + Autosampler.
- Delta Nu Raman Spectrometer Advantage 200A.
- Rudolph Autopol IV Automatic Polarimeter
- EG&G Parc 264A & EG&G Parc 384 Polarographic Analyzer/Stripping Voltammeter.
- Perkin Elmer Lambda 20 Spectrophotometer
- Johnson Matthey Mark II Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
- Three Silicon Graphic SGI O2 Workstations with Tripos SYBYL 4.8.
Spectroscopy
NMR 400 MHz + Autosampler; Flame and Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer + Autosampler; Raman Spectrometer; two FT-IR Spectrometers, Ultraviolet/Visible Spectrophotometers; Near Infrared Spectrometers; Spectrofluorometer.
Chromatography
Programmable Gas Chromatographs; HPLC system + Autosampler.
Electrochemistry
Polarographic Analyzer, Polarographic Analyzer/ Stripping Voltmeter, SMDE Electrode, RDE Electrode and Electrogravimetric Analyzer.
GC-MS
GC, MSD, Flame Ionization Detector with EPC, Purge-and-Trap Liquid Sample Concentrator, Library of Spectra and Chemical Structure Database.
Other Equipment
Automatic Polarimeter; Magnetic Susceptibility Balance; Flame Photometer.
Computer Facilities
Three SGI Molecular Modeling Stations; Chemistry server providing licensed software for the use of students.