Facilities/Instrumentation

MAJOR EQUIPMENT

The department is equipped with the following major instruments:

  Beckman Coulter PA 800 Capillary Electrophoresis System
  Bruker Avance 400 MHz Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer
  Varian Saturn 2100 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
  Varian Gas Chromatograph with FID Detector
  Nd:YAG Laser Spectrometer
  ThermoElectron IR200 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer
  Jasco V-550 Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrometer
  Perkin-Elmer Models 1310 and 281B Infrared Spectrophotometers
  Bioanalytical Systems CV 50W Electrochemistry Apparatus
  Perkin-Elmer Model 2280 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
  Millennium 2010 Diode Array High Performance Liquid Chromatograph
  Scientific Systems Model 401-2 High Performance Liquid Chromatograph
  Forma B-22 High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge
  Perkin-Elmer Model 2400 Thermal/Cycler
  Vacuum Atmospheres HE-43-2 DRI-LAB
  Shimadzu RF-1501 Spectrofluorometer

COMPUTING FACILITIES

In addition to the campus-wide computing facilities, the Science Center is completely hard wired for computing and also has wireless networking capability. A 16-person portable computer lab is utilized during general chemistry and organic chemistry laboratory periods. Upper level chemistry courses utilize the department's 4-station computer lab in the physical chemistry laboratory.

LIBRARY FACILITIES

The College's library collection is housed in Musselman Library. The chemistry collection consists of over 1800 titles (over 2400 volumes). In addition to the many print subscriptions to scientific journals that the College maintains, we have been acquiring electronic subscriptions to journals which allow access to these journals from any computer linked to the College's network. For example, all American Chemical Society journals and all Royal Society of Chemistry journals are currently available on-line. In addition to the on-line journals the College subscribes to SciFinder Scholar which is a powerful tool that allows students and faculty to search the vast chemical literature database electronically.






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