Facilities & Equipment


	Nuclear Magnetic Instruments		Varian Mercury VX 300MHz NMR Spectrometer Varian Inova 500MHz NMR Spectrometer with 3 probes: 5mm triple nucleus gradient, 8mm DOTY diffusion, 4mm z axis-PFG probes Access to Bruker DMX-600 NMR spectrometer located at UNSW Access to Bruker Advance 800 MHz spectrometer located at ANU– from mid 2004

	Mass Spectrometers		MSURRF major equipment. Click here.

	Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectrophotometers UV-Vis Spectrophotometers Circular Dichroism Spectrophtometers Bruker		Bomem MB100 FTIR spectrometer (4) Cary500 UV/Vis/NEAR IR spectrophotometer Shimadzu UV-160 UV-visible spectrophotometer Shimadzu UV-265 UV-Vis spectrophotometer Hitachi F-4500 fluorimeter Jobin Yvon CD6 circular dichroism spectrometer Shimadzu UV1601-PC UV-Vis spectrophotemeter Bomem MB100 FTIR (4) Bruker IRcube FTIR as trace gas analysers (5) Bruker HR125 high resolution FTIR, with solar tracker

	HPLC & GasChromatography		Extensive HPLC facilities (11 units, including preparative HPLC), with a range of detection options (flourescence, conductivity, uv-visible, refractive index, and electrochemical) Pharmacia 2D Gel electrophoresis equipment Several gas chromatographs

	Computers		Chemistry computer laboratory: 10 Windows PCs 4 MacIntosh PCs Modelling Computers with Gaussian03, Accelrys (Catalyst, Insight II) and Spartan software: SGI Fuel SGI 02(1 computers) SGI Octane (2 computers) 3GHz Dual processor PC NMR processing with Vnmr and xeas: Sun Blade150 Sun Sparc 5 SGI 02

	Electrochemical Instrumentation		Extensive electrochemical equipment for cyclic voltammetry, differential pulse, and anodic and cathodic stripping studies Electrochemical Mapping Facility comprising: i. PAR/UniScan Model SVP100-P Scanning Vibrating Reference Electrode System ii. Solartron/UniScan 1275 Localised Electrochemical Impedance (LEIS) System Raman Spectrometry Mapping Facility comprising: Lab Raman Infinity Spectrometer with Confocal Microscope (Jobin Yvon) and PAR Potentiostat/Galvanostat Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance

	Atomic Absorption Spectrometer		Varian Spectr. AA 220 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer VGA-76 Vapour generation accessory Instrumentation Lab 451 Atomic absorption spectrometer Access to an ICP/MS Sequential ICP

	Ancilliary Equipment		Milestone ETHOS SEL microwave labstation for organic synthesis and analytical sample digestions Isco Capillary electrophoresis system Rigaku Thermogravimetric analyser Perkin Elmer 241 polarimeter KBr Press Biorad Biologic Protein Purification System Waters and Shimadzu gel permeation chromatography