Instrumentation

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LabWorks Stations for automated data collection

Twelve work stations in the General chemistry lab are used to collect routine data.

Hewlett Packard 1090 High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph

Interfaced to diode array UV-Vis detector that analyzes biomolecules

300 MHz Bruker Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer

Used extensively in the Organic Chemistry labs

Two Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometers

A Nicolet and Perkin Elmer FT-IR, which measure bond vibrations, are used in organic chemistry and advanced labs

Three Hewlett Packard Diode Array UV-Visible Spectrophotometers

Students throughout the chemistry curriculum use these instruments to measure molecular chromophores.

Perkin Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

Used in several project-based labs in General chemistry to analyze metal content in aqueous solutions

Hewlett Packard 5859A Mass Spectrometer

The mass spectrometer, interfaced to a HP gas chromatograph, analyzes molecular fragmentation patterns

Silicon Graphics Molecular Modeling Stations

Nine SGI's running SPARTAN are used in General and Organic chemistry courses for modeling small molecules

Gas Chromatographs

Two Gow Mac gas chromatographs dedicated to the Nutrition labs.

X-ray Diffractometer