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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

 

ThermoFinnigan LTQ, Linear ion-trap mass spectrometer - NEW!

Shimadzu GC/MS

Micromass Platform LCZ LC / MS

VG Autospec-oa-TOF high resolution mass spectrometer with EI, CI, electro-spray and MS/MS

Micromass M@LDI - MALDI Mass Spectrometer

Micromass Q-TOF2 with capillary LC and nanoelectrospray interfaces

       
 

Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectrophotometers

UV-Vis Spectrophotometers


Circular Dichroism Spectrophtometers

 

Bomem DA8 high resolution FTIR spectrometer

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

       
 

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

       
 

 

 
   

Last reviewed: 5 April, 2007 

 
   
 
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