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Instrumentation

Lauren Martin, Jessica Mercier with NMR
Lauren Martin '06 and Jessica Mercier '06
by the JEOL ECX 400 MHz NMR.
As a result of the faculty's successful proposals, the Chemistry Department has received a large number of National Science Foundation (NSF) grants and other extramural awards to support its instrument-intensive curriculum. These grants have brought an unusually high number of state-of-the-art instruments to the Chemistry Department and have allowed for the development of an innovative curriculum. Recent acquisitions are listed below.


Major Equipment Approximate Year Acquired
Q-switched Nd:YAG laser system with 2nd (532 nm), 3rd (355 nm), and 4th (266 nm) harmonics along with an Optical Parametric Oscillator with tunable output from 420 nm to 2000 nm. The detection system consists of a LabVIEW controlled monochromator and PMT along with a gated integrator. This system incorporates many components of our earlier laser system (see below). 2004
JEOL ECX 400 MHz NMR. This high field NMR is used by Chemistry students and faculty in research and upper-level laboratory courses. 2003
Perkin-Elmer Analyst 800 atomic absorption spectrometer (AA). The AA has flame, cold vapor, and graphite furnace capability. It also has an autosampler. 2003
Anasazi FT-NMR upgrade of Varian EM360L NMR. This upgrade has transformed our NMR into an FT-NMR with multinuclear capability. 2001
Potentiostat/Galvanostat (EG&G Princeton Applied Research Potentiostat/Galvanostat 263A) interfaced to Dell PC 1999
HPLC (Waters system with three Waters 510 HPLC pumps, 600S Controller, 626 Pump, and a Waters 996 Photodiode Array Detector) 1994
Gene Assembler (Pharmacia LKB Special) interfaced to Hewlett Packard Vectra VL2 4/50 PC 1994
GC-MS (Hewlett Packard 5890 Series II Gas Chromatograph, 5972 Series Mass Selective Detector) interfaced to Dell PC 1994; computer and software upgraded in 1999
Differential Scanning Calorimeter (Perkin Elmer DSC7 Analyzer with TAC 7/DX Thermal Analysis Controller) interfaced to Digital PC (DECpc LPv 433dx) 1993
Laser Spectroscopy Setup (Laser Science Inc. pulsed N2 laser; Digikröm 240 monochrometer; Hamamatsu R928 Photomultiplier tube with Betran Associates Series 230 High Voltage Power Supply; Stanford Research Systems SR250 Boxcar Gated Integrator, SR245 Computer Interface, and SR280 Power Supply and Display Module; Tektronix  Model 2232 100 MHz Digital Storage Oscilloscope; GPIB cables; Dell PC computer with National Instruments PCI-GPIB board with NI-488.2M software; National Instruments LabVIEW 5.1 software for Windows NT/98/95) 1991; computer and software upgraded in 1999
NMR (Varian EM360L 60 MHz Continuous Wave NMR) 1989; Anasazi upgrade in 2001 (see above)
FT-IR (Mattson Instruments 4020 Galaxy Series FT-IR) interfaced to Dell PC 1989; computer and software upgraded in 1999
UV-Vis (Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array Spectrophotometer; HP 89090 Temperature Controller) interfaced to Gateway 2000 P5-133 PC 1989; new PC and software and temperature controller in 1999
GC (Hewlett-Packard 5890A Gas Chromatograph with FID Detector) 1983
Major Software Approximate Year Acquired
Berkeley Madonna Software for Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems. 2003 - present
Spartan Molecular Modeling Software (Wavefunction, Inc.); have contract to upgrade as new versions come out. 1999 - present
LabVIEW with 10-user teaching license (Originally Version 2.1 for Mac; upgraded to LabVIEW for Windowsin 1998). Have contract to upgrade as new versions come out. 1991 - present



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