Santa Clara University

Instrumentation

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

Santa Clara University chemistry students work with excellent experimental facilities including a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer and a single, crystal x-ray diffractometer.

• Brookhaven 90 Plus Particle Size Analyzer (dynamic light scattering) (2007)
• Mettler-Toledo DSC 823e (differential scanning calorimenter) (2007)
• Molecular Imaging PicoSPM Atomic Force Microscope (2002)
• Shimadzu TGA-50 Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer (1989)
• Reichert Mark II Plus Abbe refractometer (2006)
  
  
  

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)
• Capillary Electrophoresis with Argon Ion Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection System (2005)

Separations Equipment

• 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 with diode array detector (2)(2001)

Mass Spectrometry

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

Optical Spectroscopy

• LSI VG-337A N₂ Laser with Dye Laser and Frequency Doubler (2001)
• Spex Fluorolog Spectrofluorimeter (2000)
• Perkin Elmer HG-800 Atomic Absorption Spectrometers (2) (1998)
• 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 Spectrophotometer (2) (1989, 1994)
• Shimadzu 3101 UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer (1989)
• Cary 50 Spectrophotometers (2)(2004)
• Ocean Optics Spectrometer (8) (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 in 1998)
• Nicolet Avatar FTIR Spectrometers (2) (2001)

Other Equipment

• Misoniz XL Ultrasonic Cell Disruptor (tip sonicator) (2007)
• IEC Micromax RF Refrigerated Microcentrifuge (2006)
• Beckman Coulter Allegra X-22R Centrifuge (2005)
• DuPont Sorvall RC-5C Centrifuge (2001)    
• Beckman LS6000IC Liquid Scintillation Counter (1989)
• Du Pont Sorvall RC-5B Centrifuge (1989)

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