The chemistry department features over 10,000 square feet of dynamic teaching and research laboratories. Students have the opportunity to use advanced, research-grade instrumentation in their instructional laboratories and when conducting research with faculty.

About Our Facilities

The home of the chemistry department at Colgate is Wynn Hall, which houses both instructional laboratories and laboratories dedicated to research by the department’s professors and students.

Student Access to Facilities

All research facilities are available to undergraduate student researchers. Students may also access the department’s computer lab, which houses 12 workstations equipped with software packages specifically suited for scientific data analysis, molecular graphics, and computational chemistry.

Instrumentation

BrukerAvance 400 MHz NMR spectrometer
BrukerAvance 400 MHz NMR spectrometer

Used for providing detailed structural information on organic, bioorganic, and organometallic chemical samples, it features a variable temperature unit, automated sample changer, and 1H/13C and broadband multinuclear probes.

Oxford Diffraction Gemini R Ultra x-ray diffractometer
A student researcher adjusts the x-ray diffractometer

Used for protein and small molecule crystallography, it features dual-wavelength X-ray generators, a Kappa-geometry goniometer, and a cryojet capable of maintaining temperatures as low as 110 Kelvin.

Vicky Yang '22 operates the Bruker Daltonics Autoflex MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer
Vicky Yang '22 operates the Bruker Daltonics Autoflex MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer

Used for measuring the masses of higher molecular weight molecules such as proteins, peptides, and porphyrinoids.

Additional Instrumentation

  • Agilent Cary 60 UV-Vis spectrophotometer with a temperature-controlled cuvette holder
  • Agilent Cary 8454 spectrophotometer
  • Bruker Alpha FT-IR spectrometers with transmission & ATR capabilities
  • Bruker Avance 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with 24 position autosampler
  • Bruker S2 Picofox TXRF spectrometer
  • Hi-Tech SF61DX2 double mixing stopped-flow spectrophotometer
  • Horiba FluoroMax Plus-C fluorometer for steady-state and lifetime measurements
  • Malvern Zetasizer Nano-S static and dynamic light-scattering spectrometer  
  • Ocean Optics UV-Vis spectrophotometers
  • Oxford Diffraction Gemini R Ultra X-ray diffractometer with copper and molybdenum sealed-tube X-ray sources, cryojet, and liquid nitrogen auto-fill system  
  • Rudolph Autopol polarimeter I
  • Shimadzu UV-160 UV-Visible-NIR spectrophotometer  
  • Tecan Infinite M Nano+ dual-mode microplate reader with monochromator optics  
  • Thermo Scientific Nanodrop 2000C spectrophotometer  
  • Thermo Scientific Nicolet 6700 FT-IR spectrometer
  • Advion CMS mass spectrometer
  • Agilent LC/MSD iQ mass spectrometer
  • Bruker Daltonics Autoflex MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer  
  • Shimadzu QP 2010 SE Quadrupole GC/MS with 150-position autosampler
  • Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC system with diode array detector
  • Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC system with multi-wavelength detector and fraction collector
  • Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC system with fluorescence detector
  • Amersham/Pharmacia AKTA FPLC and AKTA Prime systems
  • Biotage Selekt Enkel flash chromatography system  
  • Combiflash RF automated flash chromatography systems  
  • Shimadzu GC-2030 GC/FID with 150-position autosampler
  • SRI Multiple Gas Analyzer #5
  • PalmSens PalmSens4 Potentiostat
  • Pine Wavenow Wireless Potentiostat
  • Pine WaveVortex 10 Electrode Rotator
  • Bio-Rad gel electrophoresis systems  
  • Bio-Rad T100 thermal cycler
  • Biospec BeadBeater    
  • Cytiva Amersham ImageQuant 800 imaging system
  • Eppendorf 5804R centrifuge 
  • Eppendorf Eporator electroporation instrument  
  • Eppendorf Vacufuge plus
  • Fisherbrand Model 705 sonic dismembrator  
  • Gyromax 737 incubator/shaker  
  • Hotpack 105065 walk-in cold room 
  • Labconco 75200 lyophilizer  
  • Sorvall/Dupont Ultra 80 ultracentrifuge  
  • Sorvall LYNX 4000 superspeed centrifuge  
  • Thermo Scientific MaxQ 4000 benchtop orbital shaker with refrigeration
  • Wescor Vapro 5520 vapor pressure osmometer
  • CEM microwave synthesizer
  • MBraun Labmaster 130 glove box
  • MBraun Labstar Pro SP glove box
  • MBraun solvent purification system
  • Eppendorf 5702 centrifuge  
  • Eppendorf CellXpert C170i incubator with CO2 changeover manifold  
  • Thermo Scientific CryoPlus 1 auto-fill cryogenic storage system  
  • Thermo Scientific 1300 series class II, type A2 biological safety cabinet