The Chemistry Department is located on the third floor of Koch Center for Engineering and Science. In 2000, Koch Center was completely renovated and a new addition was added to the south side of the building. As a result, all of the teaching and research laboratory facilities in the department were new in 2000.

Major Instrumentation

• Molecular Structure Determination

• JEOL Eclipse Plus 300 NMR
• Nicolet 6700 FT-IR
• Varian E-4 Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer

• Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

• Leeman Labs Profile Plus inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectrometer with HYDRA AA mercury analyzer
• Photon Technology QM-4 Spectrofluorometer
• Instrumentation Laboratory Video 12E AA/AE spectrophotometer with graphite furnace and autosampler
• Hewlett Packard GC/MS (Models 5890 and 5972)
• Perkin-Elmer Lambda 7 UV/VIS Spectrophotometer
• Perkin-Elmer 204-A Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
• Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array Spectrophotometer
• Nikon SMZ-10A Polarizing Stereoscopic Zoom Microscope with digital camera

• Separation Techniques

• Three HPLC systems (Waters and BAS) with tunable absorbance and photodiode array detection
• Waters Quanta 4000 Capillary Electrophoresis System
• Beckman L-60 ultracentrifuge
• Eppendorf 5810R refrigerated centrifuge

• Laser Spectroscopy

• Photon Technology PL2300 Nitrogen Laser and PL 202 Dye Laser with Newport Table
• Newport (Oriel) MS257 1/4 meter monochromator with LabVIEW interface
• Tektronix TDS2022 200 MHz digital storage oscilloscope