Major Instrumentation & Equipment in Chemistry
The chemistry department is primarily located on the third floor of the Billie Tisch Center for Intergrated Sciences. The space includes four teaching laboratories for analytical, introductory, physical, and synthetic chemistry; two instrument rooms; and three shared research suites used in faculty-student collaborative research. The biochemists in the department are on the second floor of the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences with research space in the Kal Das Biomolecular Research Suite shared with biology and neuroscience. The biomolecular space includes two additional teaching laboratories for biochemistry and the cellular & molecular biosciences. The department houses a wide variety of modern research-grade instruments that are routinely used by students in laboratory classes and in collaborative research. Students and faculty in the department also use the Skidmore Analytical Interdisciplinary Laboratory (SAIL), the Physics Machine Shop, and the 91¶¶Òù Microscopy Imaging Center (SMIC) as well as the three autoclaves in the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences.
INSTRUMENTATION
- 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer [JEOL]
- Fiber optic spectrometer [Ocean Optics]
- Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers
- Scanning spectrofluorimeter [Shimadzu]
- Ultraviolet-visible diode array spectrophotometers [Agilent]
- Scanning ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer [Cary and Shimadzu]
- Single wavelength visible spectrophotometers
- UV-Vis Diffuse Reflection Spectroscopy [Perkin Elmer]
- Gas Sorption Analyzer [Quantachrome]
- Gas chromatograph with FID and µECD dectectors [Agilent]
- High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) [Dionex]
- Capillary Electrophoresis System [Beckman Coulter]
- FlashSmart Elemental Analzyer for CHNS/O [Thermo Scientific]
Additional instrumentation in SAIL:
- Atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS) (PerkinElmer AAnalyst 800)- flame, graphite furnace and mercury analysis capabilities
- Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer (PerkinElmer Spectrum 100/Spotlight 200)- ATR, slide/cell holder and microscope accessory
- Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) (Agilent 7890A/5975C)
- High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) (Dionex UltiMate 3000 & PerkinElmer Flexar)
- Ion chromatograph (IC) (Dionex ICS 2100)- electrical conductivity and variable wavelength detectors
- Liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer (LC-MS) (Thermo Vanquish/ISQ-EC)- Charged aerosol detector (CAD) also available
- Portable photosynthesis system (LI-COR LI6400XT)
- (DXR3 Thermo Fisher Scientific)
- X-ray diffractometer (XRD) (Rigaku Miniflex 6G)
- X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer, handheld (Bruker Tracer III SD)
Preparative
- Refrigerated preparative centrifuges
- Microwave reactor for organic synthesis [Milestone]
- Microwave sample digester [Milestone]
- Deep freezers (–20 °C, –45 °C, –80 °C)
- Refrigerators/freezers
- Ovens
- Controlled temperature baths and chillers
- Heidolph Rotary Evaporators
Biochemistry
- Bio-Rad GelDoc Go
- Bio-Rad ChemiDoc
- Desktop shaking incubator
- Shaking incubator [Innova]
- Desktop centrifuges (refrigerated/non-refrigerated)
- DNA sequencing systems [FisherBiotech]
- Gel electrophoresis apparatuses (vertical and horizontal)
- Orbital shaker
- Heat blocks
- Sonicator [FS Model 505]
- Thermocyclers [BioRad]
- Nanodrop spectrometer/computer
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Beckman Coulter Optime XPN-90 Ultracentrifuge
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Beckman Coulter Avanti J-E Centrifuge
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AKTA Prime Plus FPLC
- Go Direct® Fluorescence/UV-VIS Spectrophotometer [Vernier]
- NanoDropâ„¢ One/OneC Microvolume UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Other
- Solution calorimeter [Parr]
- Bomb calorimeter [Parr]
- Microbalance [Cahn]
Software
All Skidmore-owned computers can have these installed:
- Gaussian09 and GaussView (for Windows)
- Mathematica (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Matlab
- ChemDraw (Windows and Mac)
- SciFinder