Chemistry Facilities

A stone edifice rises from behind some trees.
A stone edifice rises from behind some trees.

Departmental offices, classrooms, and a full range of laboratories are located in both Kennedy Hall and Robertson Hall. The department maintains a wide variety of state-of-the-art instruments, equipment, and other resources to enable cutting-edge research by faculty and students. In addition, faculty in chemistry have individual dedicated lab space for their research to meet the research needs of each person. The following is an updated listing of chemistry department facilities and equipment:

NMR Spectroscopy

  • Bruker Avance 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with a 3-channel broadband probe capable of 1H, 13C, 19F, 15N, and 31P data collection and a 24-sample automated sample changer. (NSF MRI-2214877, 2022)
  • Bruker F80 80 MHz benchtop NMR (NSF MRI-2214877, 2022)

Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry

  • Thermo gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (Trace 1310 GC, TSQ Duo MS)
  • SciEX-4000 mass spectrometer
  • Varian gas chromatography mass spectrometer
  • Two Varian CP-3800 gas chromatographs ECD, FID, and TCD capabilities
  • Shimadzu HPLC System

UV-Vis Spectroscopy

  • Two Cary 50 UV-vis spectrophotometers 
  • Two Cary 60 UV-vis spectrophotometers.

IR Spectroscopy

  • Two Perkin Elmer Spectrum Two FT-IR spectrometers
  • Perkin Elmer Spectrum 100 FT-IR spectrometer

Electrochemistry

  • CH Instruments 600E electrochemical potentiostat (PittCon, 2016)

Other Instruments

  • Inert Corp. I-Lab 2GB nitrogen glovebox with an electrochemical pass through, vacuum capability, and -35oC freezer.
  • Millipore water purification system 
  • Innov-X Systems X-ray fluorescence analyzer
  • iCycler thermal cycler
  • -80 °C freezer
  • H-cube Mini hydrogenator (NSF CHE-1708234, 2017)
  • AVIV circular dichroism (CD) spectrometer
  • Neslab Cryotol CB 80 cooling bath

Computational Resources

 Along with a site license for Gaussian 16 and GaussView 6, the campus houses a super-computing center in Briggs Hall that is available to chemistry faculty and students for running computational modelling. (NSF CCI-2018758, 2020)

Teaching labs

The department has seven fully stocked teaching lab spaces for the wide range of labs that are offered, which are appropriately equipped with items ranging from heating/stirring plates, analytical balances, ovens, hoods, rotovaps, calorimeters, etc.