Facilities
The Department of Chemistry is housed in the University's Science Building. Facilities include laboratory space for faculty and graduate student research; glass blowing, machine and electronic shops; and access to the Healey Library's science collection.
The University has recently acquired $125 million to build a new Science complex, and the Chemistry Department is expected to move to the new, state of the art facility in about 5 years time.
Research facilities currently available include:
- Numerous UV-VIS, IR, and FT-IR spectrophotometers
- laser-Raman spectrophotometer
- NMR spectrometer
- electron spin resonance equipment
- A fully equipped laboratory for X-ray crystallographic studies
- CW, pulsed, and tunable dye lasers
- Electroanalytical equipment
- Analytical and preparative gas chromatographs
- High pressure liquid chromatograph
- Extensive computing facilities
- Atomic absorption spectrometers
- Mass spectrometers
- ORD/CD instrumentation
- Departmental laptops for data acquisition and computing labs
