Instrumentation

Major Equipment in SCU's Chemistry Department For Undergraduate Instruction and Research

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

• Varian Inova 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer (1997)

X-Ray Diffraction

• Siemens P4 X-ray Diffractometer (1996)

Electrochemical Equipment

• Bio Analytical Systems CV-50 Electrochemical Analyzer (1997)

Separations

• Hewlett-Packard 5890A Capillary Gas Chromatograph (1985)
• Gow-Mac Series 350 Gas Chromatographs (5) (1995, 1996,2005)
• Waters HPLC with electrochemical detector (2004)
• Varian Prostar HPLC (2)(2001)

Mass Spectrometry

• Sciex API 1 Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometer (2000)
• Shimadzu QP5000A Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (2006)

Optical Spectroscopy

• Spex Fluorolog Spectrofluorimeter (2000)
• Hewlett-Packard Model 8453A Diode Array Spectrophotometer (1996)
• Olis RSM Circular Dichroism Spectrometer (1996)
• Perkin Elmer Lambda 11 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer (1995)
• Shimadzu 160 UV-VIS Spectrophotometers (2) (1989, 1994)
• Shimadzu 3101 UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer (1989)
• Cary 50 Spectrophotometers (2) (2004)
• Ocean Optics Spectrometers (9) (1997)
• Molecular Devices Spectramax Gemini Fluorescence Plate Reader (2004)
• Molecular Devices Spectramax 340 Absorbance Plate Reader (1997)

Infrared Spectroscopy

• Nicolet 510P FTIR Spectrometer (1992, upgraded 1998)
• Nicolet Avatar FTIR Spectrometers (2) (2001)

Other Equipment

• Perkin Elmer HG-800 Atomic Absorption Spectrometers (2) (1998)
• Johnson-Matthey Magnetic Susceptibility Balance MSB-1 (1993)
• Continuum SL-II-10 Nd-YAG Laser with Harmonic Generator (2001)
• LSI VG-337A N₂ Laser with Dye Laser and Frequency Doubler (2001)
• Beckman LS6000IC Liquid Scintillation Counter (1989)
• Shimadzu TGA-50 Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer (1989)
• DuPont Sorvall RC-5B Centrifuge (1989)
• DuPont Sorvall RC-5C Centrifuge (2001)
• Beckman Coulter Allegra X-22R Centrifuge (2005)
• IEC Micromax RF Refrigerated Microcentrifuge (2006)
• Molecular Imaging PicoSPM Atomic Force Microscope (2002)
• Argon Ion Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection System (2005)
• Capillary Electrophoresis Apparatus (2005)
• Labconco Class II Biosafety Cabinet (2005)