Analytical Services Laboratory

Technology Institute, K Wing, Ground Level
Laboratory Director: Andrew Ott, Department of Chemistry

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The Analytical Services Laboratory, operated by the Department of Chemistry, is a shared facility for performing a full range of chemical analyses. Such analyses include qualitative composition determination, quantitative analysis, and molecular structure determination. Instrumentation housed in this facility includes NMR spectrometers, mass spectrometers, X-ray crystallography equipment, optical spectrometers, elemental analysis equipment, and chromatography equipment. Users may be trained to use most of these instruments independently or samples may be submitted to the ASL staff for analysis.

EQUIPMENT:

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometry
Varian Gemini 2000
Varian 400 (Solid State)
Varian INOVA 400
Varian Mercury 400 (with Varian SMS autosampler)
Varian INOVA 500
Varian INOVA 600
Probes for most instruments for a full range of NMR active nuclei, VT operation, a full range of multidimensional NMR experiments

Mass Spectometry
Agilent 1100 MSD with HPLC interface
Applied Biosystems 2000 (ESI/APCI) electrospray triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with HPLC interface
Applied Biosystems 3000 (ESI/APCI) electrospray triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
Applied Biosystems Voyager DE Pro MALDI (matrix assisted laser desorption ionization) - TOF (time of flight) mass spectrometer
Hewlett Packard 6890 GC/MS
Waters Q-TOF2 (ESI) electrospray quadrupole / Time of Flight high resolution mass spectrometer
VG Isotech isotope stabilized mass spectrometer
Thermo Finnigan MAT 900 high resolution mass spectrometer
Thermo Finnigan LCQ Advantage ion trap mass spectrometer

X-Ray Crystallography
Bruker SMART1000 single crystal X-ray diffractometer with CCD detector
Bruker KAPPA APEXII single crystal X-ray diffractometer with CCD detector (July 2007)
workstations for X-ray crystallography data analysis

Atomic Analysis
Varian VISTA-MPX Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) spectrometer
VG PQ ExCell ICP/MS

Optical Spectroscopy
Infrared and Raman:
Mattson Polaris FTIR spectrometer
BioRad FTIR spectrometer (near, mid and far IR) with microscope
BioRad FT-Raman II spectrometer
Ultraviolet/Visible:
Cary 1 UV/visible spectrometer
PTI QM-2 fluorescence/phosphorescence spectrometer

Chromatography
Gas Chromatography:
Hewlett Packard 5890 with capillary column for chiral separation
Varian 3700 HPLC: HP 1090 with reverse phase and gel permeation columns and UV and refractive index detectors
HP 1100 (used as an attachment for the electrospray mass spectrometer) with UV detector
GC/MS: Hewlett Packard 6890
Waters Alliance GPCV 2000 high T gel permeation chromatograph with viscosity, refractive index and light scattering detectors
Waters room temperature GPC system with refractive index and UV/Vis detectors.

Thermal Analysis
Instrument Specialists differential scanning calorimeters (DSC) miscellaneous: calorimeters,
viscometers

Polarimeter
Optical Activity AA-100 automatic digital polarimeter