Departmental Instruments

UPS Chemistry Department Major Equipment

FT-NMR

  • JEOL ECA-400 with sample changer and autotuning probe

FT-IR

  • Perkin-Elmer Spectrum One with Diffuse Reflectance Accessory
  • Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 1000 with Diffuse Reflectance Accessory
  • Bruker Model IF 555 (modified for atmospheric IR measurements)

LC/MS

  • Agilent 1100 series liquid chromatograph with SL ion trap mass spectometer and spectrun Mill proteomic analysis software

GC and GC/MS

  • Agilent 6850 GC with auto sampler and 5973 mass selective detector
  • Hewlett Packard 6890 GC with FID detector

UV-Vis

  • 20 Ocean Optics USB 4000 Vis/NIR spectrometers
  • 3 Ocean Optics USB 4000 UV/Vis spectrometers
  • 2 Hewlett Packard 8453 Diode Array Spectrometers
  • Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array Spectrometer
  • Cary 1 with Peltier temperature controller and multicell changer
  • IBM 3240 UV-Vis Spectrometer

Fluorescence

  • Ocean Optics USB-4000 fluorimeter

HPLC and HPLC Detectors

  • System 1
    • Waters 1525 Binary HPLC Pump
    • Waters Inline Degasser
    • Waters 2489 UV/Visible Detector
    • Breeze2 Software
  • System 2
    • Waters 600 Pump and Controller
    • 996 Photodiode Array Detector
    • Empower Software
  • Varian Model 340 UV-Vis Variable Wavelength Detector
  • Varian Model 360 Fluorescence Detector

Microwave Synthesizer 

  • CEM Discover SP Microwave Synthesizer

Thermal Analysis

  • TA Instruments Model 2920 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
  • TA Instruments Model 2950 Thermogravimetic Analyzer

Inert Atmospheric Glovebox

  • M Braun Unilab 1200

Polarimeter

  • Jasco P-2000 Polarimeter

AA Spectrometer

  • Thermo Jarrell Ash SH 11 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

Laser

  • PRA LN 100/105 Picosecond Nitrogen/Dye Laser and Laser Table

Computers

  • 40 Macintosh iBooks equipped with Vernier LabPro interfaces for connection to pH, temperature, and UV-Vis probes
  • Several Macs and PC's

DNA Synthesizer

  • Applied Biosystems Model 391 DNA Synthesizer