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CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT FACILITIES AND INSTRUMENTATION
The Department occupies the first floor of the brand-new Science Center, a $60 million project involving construction of a new four-story building (Phase I) followed by renovation of and addition to the original Science Building (Phase II). The Chemistry Department has approximately 14,000 square feet of usable space, which includes five laboratory spaces dedicated to student research, both Senior Projects and the active summer program. Synthetic and physical chemistry laboratories with a shared instrument room provide for the upper level courses. Three large teaching laboratories with associated instrument rooms serve beginning and intermediate courses. The new facility also has ample meeting and study areas in the spacious contemporary design.
Hamilton also houses the servers for the NSF-funded MERCURY Supercomputer Consortium, a group of seven northeastern liberal arts colleges.
INSTRUMENTATION
SPECTROMETRY
Bruker Avance 500MHz NMR
2 Agilent 8453 UV/Vis Spectrometers
Jobin/Yvon Fluoromax-3 Spectrofluorometer
Shimadzu UV-2401PC UV-Vis
Perkin Elmer 3100 Atomic Absorption, Graphite Furnace
Mattson Galaxy 6020 FTIR
MIDAC M2501 FTIR Interferometer
Perkin Elmer 1310 IR Spectrometer
Hewlett Packard 8452A Diode Array UV-Vis
SPEX 1403 Raman Monochromator
Spectrophysics Nd:YAG Laser
Nikon Microphot-FX fluorescence/phase contrast/ differential interference
contrast microscope equipped with a Spot II digital camera
SEPARATIONS
Shimadzu LC-10AS High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph
Shimadzu QP5050 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
Hewlett Packard 5890A/5970B Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
Hewlett-Packard G1602A Capillary Electrophoresis
B/R Teflon Spinning Band Distillation Column
ISCO UA-5 UV monitor/Foxy Fraction collector
Assorted Fraction Collectors
SpeedVac system
Assorted Student gas chromatographsBIOCHEMISTRY
2 SoLow –80° Freezers
Sorvall RC-5B Centrifuge
Walk-in Coldroom
Nanopure Water Purifier
Jasco P-1020 PolarimeterCOMPUTATIONAL
SGI Origin 2000 Server--32 processors, 32 GB RAM
SGI Origin 200 Servers--5, 4 CPUs each
SGI Octane/O2 Workstations--5
Linux Workstations--10
Departmental Computer Lab--20 Apple Macintosh computers, 2 Dell PC’s
SGI Origin 2400 Server -- 64 processors, 16GB RAM
SGI Altix Server (Itanium processors running RedHat Linux) -- 16 processors, 16GB RAM
MERCURY Supercomputer Consortium Resources:
SGI Origin 300 -- 32 processors, 32GB RAM
Beowolf Cluster -- 32 1U Intel based PC's
MEASUREMENT
Microcal VP Isothermal Calorimeter
Perkin Elmer EEG/PAR Potentiostat
Parr Bomb CalorimeterSYNTHESIS
Innovative Technologies Drybox
Five complete vacuum lines
Parr Hydrogenation Apparatus
Büchi Kugelrohr
Rotary Evaporators (13)