Facilities

The Chemistry Department is located in the new Physics/Chemistry Building which was completed in May, 2005. There are well-equipped teaching laboratories for general, integrated organic/inorganic, physical, analytical, and biochemistry. Several laboratories house shared instrumentation and computers; and each faculty member has research space to accommodate 2 to 4 students. In addition,  a large stockroom with a separate chemical storage area provides a selection of items commonly used in research and teaching.

Instruments

We are fortunate to have state-of-the-art instrumentation which rivals that seen at the top research institutions in the country, and undergraduates here have many opportunities to use the instruments themselves in both courses and research.

Spectroscopy:

Link to the Shenandoah Regional NMR Facility 

• Bruker Avance 600 MHz FT-NMR with broadband and VT capabilities

• Bruker DRX-400 FT-NMR with broadband gradient probe, 10mm BBO probe, 5mm ATM BBO probe and VT capabilities

• Bruker DRX-300 FT-NMR with QNP and broadband probes and VT capabilities

• Agilent Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) with laser ablation interface

• JEOL JMS-t100DART AccuToF Mass Spectrometer with AP-MALDI and ESI

• Varian 220FS DuoAA  and 220Z DuoAA  Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers

• Midac FT-IR Spectrometer

• Nicolet 560, 750 and Avatar FT-IR Spectrophotometers

• 5 Thermo Nicolet 380 Avatar and Nexus 6700 FT-IR Spectrophotometers

• Nicolet Impact 410 FT-IR

• 2 Perkin-Elmer Lambda 3 UV-Vis Spectrophotometers

• Hewlett-Packard Diode Array Spectrophotometers

• 2 Shimadzu UV-1601 UV-Vis Spectrometers

• 7 StellarNet UV-Vis spectrophotometers

• Spex Scanning Fluorimeter

• Jasco 810 CD/ORD Spectropolarimeter

Chromatography:

• Agilent Model 5973 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer

• Thermo/Finigan Polaris QC/MS Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer

• H-P Model Model 5971 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometers

• 2 Thermo Electron Gocus GC with FID and Trace GC with ECD

• H-P Model 5890A FID Capillary Gas Chromatographs

• Agilent Model 1200 HPLC

• 2 Agilent Model 1100 HPLC with Electrochemical Detector

• Perkin-Elmer HPLC with Diode Array Detector

• H-P Model 1090 HPLC with Diode Array Detector

• Biotage High Performance Flash Chromatograph

• 2 Dionex 4500 Ion Chromatographs

• Dionex DX500 Ion Chromatograph with UV-Vis Variable Wavelength Detector

• LKB Fast Protein Liquid Chromatograph

• Biotage SP1 High Performance Flash Chromatograph