Major Equipment

The Department of Chemistry possesses a wide-array of modern, sensitive instruments for chemical analysis. All of these instruments are used by students in their classes and research. We place a high priority on students acquiring hands-on experience with modern instruments. Instrument holdings include:

  • Bruker Avance III 400 MHz Superconducting NMR Spectrometer
  • Agilent Model 6520 Liquid Chromatograph with a QTOF Mass Detector
  • Agilent Model 1200 Gel Permeation Chromatograph with Laser Light Scattering, Refractive Index, and Viscometry Detectors
  • Agilent Technologies 6870N Gas Chromatograph with a 5973 Mass Detector
  • Agilent 1100 Series High Performance Liquid Chromatograph
  • Perkin-Elmer AAnalyst 100 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
  • Perkin-Elmer Optima 3100-XL Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer
  • Cary 300 Conc UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
  • Jasco 460 Plus Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (x 2)
  • Aminco-Bowman Series 2 Luminescence Spectrometer
  • Perkin-Elmer Pyris 1 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
  • Perkin-Elmer Pyris 1 Thermogravimetric Analysis System
  • Laser/Spectroscopy Laboratory: Nitrogen Pumped Dye Laser and Argon-ion Laser
  • Computer Laboratory with 13 Power Macintosh Computers
  • Braun MB-SBS Two Solvent Purification System (x 2)
  • Altix CMN024 Computer Cluster
  • Ambius EIU Atomic Force Microscope