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Overview

The Chemical Instrumentation Center (CIC) is a 5,500 sq.-ft. facility located in the basement of the Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering. Researchers have 24-hour access, 365 days a year, upon completion of instrument training.   The CIC director is Dr. Jonathan P. Lee (353-4818).

Instrumentation

The Department operates four research NMR spectrometers, including Varian 300, 400 (x2), and 500 MHz FT-NMRs. The instruments are fully equipped with pulsed-field gradients, multinuclear probes, and variable temperature controls. Graduate students are granted access to these instruments following completion of a required training program.

We also have a 270 MHz JEOL FT-NMR (in SCI 285), intended primarily for instructional purposes. Our Finnegan MAT90, a high-resolution mass spectrometer with GC interface, is available to run samples as a service. There is also a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer and a GC-MS available for student use. In addition, we have two walk-on LC-MS (liquid chromatography mass spectrometers) which include an autosampler and diode array detector, coupled to single quadrapole or ion trap detectors. With these two new instruments, students can take advantage of soft-ionization technology (electrospray ion source) and obtain either survey masses, or perform detailed fragmentation analyses on complex organic molecules, as well as sequencing experiments on nucleic acids and proteins, coupled to direct access to proteomics and genomics databases.

Two Nicolet FT-IR instruments are available, one coupled to an “IR microscope” and the other with “ATR” attenuated total reflectance capabilities for analyses of surfaces, emulsions, and liquid samples. Finally, the Department maintains an AVIV