Chemistry @ Colgate

Facilities

The Department of Chemistry is housed in Wynn Hall (completed in 1979), which contains approximately 10,000 square feet of laboratory space. Approximately half of the laboratory space is devoted to teaching laboratories, including a modern $1.5 million general chemistry teaching laboratory completed in 1993. The remaining laboratory space is devoted to student-faculty research. In addition to communal research laboratory space, each faculty member has his/her own personal research laboratory. The department is well-equipped with a wide range of modern instrumentation (see the next section for a complete listing). All of our research facilities are available to our undergraduate students. Students also have access to a departmental computing center, which houses 5 fully networked modern microcomputers equipped with software packages specifically suited for scientific data analysis, molecular graphics, and science report preparation.

Major Instrumentation

The Department of Chemistry is well-equipped for teaching and research in chemistry and biochemistry. A list of the department's major instrumentation is given below:

Spectroscopy

Bruker Daltonics Autoflex MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer
Hewlett-Packard HP 8452A diode array spectrometer (3 total in department)
Olis-converted Cary 14 UV/Vis/NIR spectrometer
Perkin-Elmer 1605 FT-IR spectrometer
Perkin-Elmer Paragon 500 FT-IR spectrometer
BrukerAvance 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with variable temperature unit, sample changer, ¹H/¹³C and broadband multinuclear probes
Nicolet Magna 560 FT-IR spectrometer
Perkin-Elmer Optima 3000 ICP-AE spectrometer
Shimadzu UV-160 UV-Visible-NIR spectrophotometer
Shimadzu RF-5301PC spectrofluorimeter

Separations

PE Biosystems ABI 310 DNA sequencer (housed in Biology)
Amersham/Pharmacia AKTA FPLC system
E-C Agarose Gel Electrophoresis System
Gel Transilluminator/Photo documentation system
Waters 840LC high performance liquid chromatograph
Sorvall/Dupont Ultra 80 ultracentrifuge
Sorvall/Dupont RC5C+ high speed centrifuge
Hewlett-Packard HP5890E gas chromatograph
Fisher 1200 gas chromatograph
Varian Saturn 2200 ion-trap GC/MS with autosampler and chromatoprobe
Hewlett-Packard 1050 high pressure liquid chromatograph

Other

PQS Quantum Cube 8-processor parallel computer system
Labconco 75200 lyophilizer
Hi-Tech SFL-42 stopped flow spectrophotometer
Hi-Tech SF61DX2 double mixing stopped-flow spectrophotometer
Hotpack 105065 walk-in cold room
Heat System W385 sonicator
Olympus SZX-12 dissecting microscope with cold light source and polarizers
ISC GeneMate thermal cycler
Gyromax 737 incubator/shaker
Biospec BeadBeater
BAS CV50W voltammetric analyzer
Linux computing workstations, X-ray crystallography (3 Dell 4600 workstations with 3D stereographics)

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