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 We have a few labs that we are continuing to fill with equipment.  We have two glove boxes (a VAC dual-station dry box and an MBraun single-station "wet" box), one of which is equipped with a Leica stereo microscope for the mounting of crystals in capillaries for X-ray diffraction studies.  We use both Schlenk (inert gas) and vacuum (Burford-Muller) glassware for the preparation and handling of our air-sensitive compounds.  We also have a solvent purification system in the lab for the safe and efficient drying of solvents.  In addition, we have a variety of other standard laboratory equipment.

 

For theoretical calculations, we have a dual Xeon-processor Dell workstation and we have access to other workstations and clusters in the department.

 

We have access to many analytical tools, including: 

- 2 CCD detector equipped single-crystal X-ray diffractometers (one with VT-capability)

- a Hi-Star area detector equipped powder X-ray diffractometer with VT-capability

- multinuclear solution NMR spectrometers

- a solid-state NMR spectrometer (through Prof. R. W. Schurko), 

- FT-IR, Raman, UV-vis and other spectrophotometers

- a C,H,N elemental analyzer

- thermal analysis equipment (DSC, TGA-MS)

- separation/purification technology (LC-MS, GC, GPC)

- other state-of-the-art facilities have recently been installed (AFM/STM, TOF-MS, multiple-quadrupole MS, and more)