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The Department of Chemistry is housed in Wynn Hall (completed in 1979), which contains approximately 10,000 square feet of laboratory space.
Approximately half of the laboratory space is devoted to teaching laboratories, including a modern $1.5 million general chemistry teaching laboratory completed in 1993.
The remaining laboratory space is devoted to student-faculty research.
In addition to communal research laboratory space, each faculty member has his/her own personal research laboratory. The department is well-equipped with a wide range of modern instrumentation.
All of our research facilities are available to our undergraduate students. Students also have access to a departmental computing center, which houses five fully networked modern microcomputers equipped with software packages specifically suited for scientific data analysis, molecular graphics, and science report preparation.
The Department of Chemistry is exceptionally well-equipped for teaching and research in chemistry and biochemistry. A list of the department's major instrumentation is given below, and includes a dual-beam X-ray diffractometer, one of only two instruments in the nation at primarily undergraduate institutions that is capable of determining protein structures.
Spectroscopy
- Bruker Daltonics Autoflex MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer
- Ocean Optics USB4000 UV-Vis spectrophotometer (3 total in department)
- Olis-converted Cary 14 UV/Vis/NIR spectrometer
- Perkin-Elmer 1605 FT-IR spectrometer
- Perkin-Elmer Paragon 500 FT-IR spectrometer
- BrukerAvance 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with variable temperature unit, sample changer, 1H/13C and broadband multinuclear probes
- Nicolet Magna 560 FT-IR spectrometer
- Perkin-Elmer Optima 3000 ICP-AE spectrometer
- Shimadzu UV-160 UV-Visible-NIR spectrophotometer
- Shimadzu RF-5301PC spectrofluorimeter
- Malvern Zetasizer Nano-S static and dynamic light scattering spectrometer
Separations
- PE Biosystems ABI 310 DNA sequencer (housed in Biology)
- Amersham/Pharmacia AKTA FPLC system
- E-C Agarose Gel Electrophoresis System
- Gel Transilluminator/Photo documentation system
- Waters 840LC high performance liquid chromatograph
- Sorvall/Dupont Ultra 80 ultracentrifuge
- Sorvall/Dupont RC5C+ high speed centrifuge
- Hewlett-Packard HP5890E gas chromatograph
- Fisher 1200 gas chromatograph
- Varian Saturn 2200 ion-trap GC/MS with autosampler and chromatoprobe
- Hewlett-Packard 1050 high pressure liquid chromatograph with autosampler
Other
- Oxford Diffraction Gemini R Ultra X-ray diffractometer (protein and small molecule crystallography) with cryojet and autofill system.
- PQS Quantum Cube 8-processor parallel computer system
- Labconco 75200 lyophilizer
- Hi-Tech SFL-42 stopped flow spectrophotometer
- Hi-Tech SF61DX2 double mixing stopped-flow spectrophotometer
- Hotpack 105065 walk-in cold room
- MBraun solvent purification system
- Heat System W385 sonicator
- Olympus SZX-12 dissecting microscope with cold light source and polarizers
- ISC GeneMate thermal cycler
- Gyromax 737 incubator/shaker
- Biospec BeadBeater
- BAS CV50W voltammetric analyzer
- Linux computing workstations, X-ray crystallography (3 Dell 4600 workstations with 3D stereographics)