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The department houses five modern teaching laboratories, several small instrumental rooms, a chemical stockroom, a student computer lab, a student lounge, and several faculty/student research laboratories. We also share the use of several multi-media classrooms. Major instrumentation is listed below. Instruments purchased in the last two years other than computers are in bold

I. Spectroscopy

  • Perkin-Elmer R24B NMR Spectrometer upgraded for FT-NMR
  • Perkin-Elmer LS 55 Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
  • Hewlett Packard 8453 Diode Array UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
  • Perkin-Elmer 403 AA Spectrophotometer
  • Nicolet 510M FT-IR System, w/ libraries
  • Shimadzu UV-Vis 1201 Spectrophotometer

II. Chromatography

  • Waters Associates Breeze HPLC System
  • Hewlett Packard 1800A GCD Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (PC Controlled)
  • Gas Chromatograph/FID (2 systems)
  • Waters Associates HPLC/Ion Chromatograph (2 Systems)
  • Gow-Mac 69-350 Gas Chromatograph

 

III. Computers for Student Use

  • Student Computer Lab with a dozen PCs and conference table
  • Freshman Lab with Mac's with Vernier interface probes
  • Pentium PC's interfaced with major instruments

IV. Miscellaneous

  • EC Epsilon Potentiostat/Galvanostat (PC controlled).
  • Parr Instruments 1221 Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter
  • Beckman Instruments Electroscan
  • Bausch and Lomb Abbe' Refractomoter (2)
  • International Equipment Company M-25 High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge (with Biology)
  • Balston Dryer for FTIR
  • 10 Computerized Spectronic 20s

V. Molecular Modeling and Visualization Software/Hardware

  • CAChe Molecular Modeling Software (CAChe Scientific) - Unlimited Yearly Site License for EC students and faculty (office or home use). Renewed and updated yearly
  • Spartan Molecular Modeling Software (Wavefunction) - multiple copies
  • Maple V - Mathematical Software (Site License with Math and Physics)
  • Dell Precision Workstation, 1 GB RAM, dual 1.7 GHz Xeon processors for running advanced computational chemistry software such as the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS).
  • ChemDraw Pro software

VI. ACS Journals and Databases

  • ACS Journals on Line - The library has an electronic subscription to the full set of ACS journals.
  • SciFinder Scholar

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