Chemistry Research Facilities
The Chemistry Department is housed in the Jeppson Laboratory (completed in 1969) and in the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center (built in 1984). The Sackler Sciences Center (24,000 square feet) connects Jeppson and the newly renovated (2005) Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science Building. Jeppson contains approximately 27,000 square feet of floor space devoted to research laboratories and undergraduate teaching laboratories as well as lecture and seminar rooms and department offices. In September of 1984, Jeppson became part of the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center. The new facilities, constructed at a cost of $8 million, house research and teaching laboratories, classrooms, seminar rooms, and a 5,000 square foot science library.
Within the Sackler Sciences Center the Chemistry Department has access to
state-of-the-art equipment for structure determination and assessment
of macromolecular dynamics, thermodynamic studies, kinetic studies,
molecular biology, and protein purification. The department is
also well equipped with a large array of computer work stations
to facilitate both sophisticated computations and the visualization
of complex biomolecular structures. Some of the major equipment
includes:
- Mercury 200 NMR Spectrometer
- Varian Inova 400 WB NMR Spectrometer, dual
solids/liquids system
- Varian Inova 600Mz, 4 channel liquids NMR Spectrometer
- Bruker EMX EPR Spectrometer
- Perkin-Elmer Differential Scanning Calorimeter (Model DSC-7)
- Buck Scientific Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Model 210-VGP)
- Perkin-Elmer Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
- Perkin-Elmer GC-Mass Spectrometer
- Perkin-Elmer HPLC
- Perkin-Elmer FTIR
- Perkin-Elmer Fluorescence, Luminescence and UV-Vis
Spectrophotometers
- Three Silicon Graphics Indy Workstations, R5000 (150 MHz) 64
MByte RAM, 2 GByte HD, 17"-Monitor, 24-Bit Graphics
- One Silicon Graphics Indy Workstation, R5000 (180 MHz) 64 MByte
RAM, 2 GByte HD, 17"-Monitor, 24-Bit Graphics.
- Silicon Graphics Power Challenger Workstation, Four x R8000 (90
MHz) Processors
- One Silicon Graphics 02 Workstation, R5000
(300 MHz) 256 MByte RAM, 8.48 GByte HD, 17" Monitor
- One Silicon
Graphics FUEL Workstation, R16000A (700 MHz) 1 GByte RAM, 36 GByte
HD, 21" Monitor
- Beowulf cluster with 16 processors and a
Myrinet high-performance network
- SGI ALTIX 350 Server with 6
processors (64-bit Linus separating system)
- Amplitron II
Thermolyne Instrument for PCR
- Packard Tri-Carb Liquid
Scintillation Analyzer (Model 1900CA)
- Sorvall RC-6 High Speed
Centrifuge
- Bruker AXS-Powder X-Ray Diffractometer
- Quantum
Design MPMS-XL SQUID Magnetometer
- Jasco J-815 circular
dichroism spectropolarimeter
- Applied Biosystems 433A peptide
synthesizer
- Varian ProStar HPLC with analytical and preparative
capabilities
The Challenger
workstation, using all four pipes, is faster than a Cray C90 Supercomputer
running molecular dynamics simulations.. The SGI computers listed
here are in addition to the numerous workstations within the individual
research groups of the Chemistry Department, the NMR facility
and the University-wide resources (Office of Information Systems)
- Beckman HPLC
- Perkin-Elmer Infrared Spectrophotometers (Models 1330 and 1600)
- Amplitron II Thermolyne Instrument for PCR
- Packard Tri-Carb Liquid Scintillation Analyzer (Model 1900CA)
- Beckman L8-70M Ultracentrifuge
Resources at local area affiliate institutions
- Two x-ray area-detectors
- ESI and MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometers
Most of the
equipment is used for both research and teaching. All faculty,
post-docs, and graduate students have access to the instrumentation
as do undergraduate students involved in faculty sponsored independent
research projects. In addition, advanced undergraduate courses
utilize many of these instruments. The department encourages undergraduates
who have taken at least Introductory and Organic Chemistry courses
to participate with faculty and graduate students in performing
original research.
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Arthur M. Sackler Science Center
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Student working at the department's GC-Mass Spectrometer.
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