Departmental Facilities And Equipment

The Department of Chemistry is housed in Kell Hall, the Science Annex, and the Science Center.  Kell Hall and the Science Center feature teaching labs, offices, service modules, and research laboratories.  Major facilities include a state-of-the-art high-field regional NMR core facility with 300, 500 and 600 MHz Inova NMR spectrometers as well as three Bruker (400,500 and 600 MHz) spectrometer with the 500 MHz instrument equipped with a cryoprobe.  The Department is also home to a combinatorial facility and a picosecond laser laboratory.  Other instrumentation includes UV/vis, infrared, fluorescence and circular dichroism spectrophotometers, stopped flow instrumentation, two Biacore instruments, bead sorter for combinatorial chemistry, ITC and DSC instruments.  Compound separation and analysis is achieved via HPLC, FPLC, centrifugal partition chromatography, capillary electrophoresis and GC/mass spectrometry.  The departmental NMR Facility is managed by a full time Ph.D. as is the departmental Mass Spectrometry Facility.  Instrumentation shared with the Biology Department includes environmental rooms as well as a centralized DNA and peptide synthesis and analysis facilities.