Swarthmore College Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
FACILITIES
The Swarthmore College Chemistry Department, located in the new Science
Center (opened Fall 2003), provides a wide variety of fine instruments for
student use in both course work and research.
Spectrometers:
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance:
- Bruker Avance DRX-400 FT-NMR, 400 MHz
Electron Spin Resonance:
UV-Visible:
- Varian DMS 200
- Jasco V-530 (3)
- Jasco V-550 (2)
- Jasco V-560
- Hewlett-Packard 8453 (diode array)
- Varian Cary 1
- Nanodrop ND-1000
Infrared:
- DigiLab Excaliber FT-IR
- Mattson Galaxy 4326 FT-IR
Circular Dichroism:
Fluorescence:
- Spex Fluorolog-3 Spectrofluorometer
- Spex Fluorolog-2 Spectrofluorometer
ICP:
Raman:
- Crystal Laser diode-pumped YAG laser (532 nm) with 0.5 m spectrograph
(Spex 1870) and CCD detector
Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer:
- Hewlett Packard 5791A Mass Detector with HP 5980 Series II GC
Chromatographic/Separations Equipment:
- Waters Breeze Prep/Analytical HPLC
- Waters 600E HPLC
- 2 Hewlett-Packard 5890II Gas Chromatographs with HP Electronic Integrators
- Waters Quanta 4000E Capillary Electrophoresis
- 4 AKTA Prime FPLCs
- AKTA Basic Liquid Chromatography System
Equipment for Protein Expression:
- Microfluidics M-110Y Microfluidizer for Cell Lysis
- MJ Research MiniCycler PCR Thermal Cycler
- Amerex Gytomax 747R Refrigerated Incubator Shaker
- New Brunswick Scientific C25 Incubator Shaker
Equipment for Fast Kinetics:
- Striker-Jovin Temperature-Jump System
- Nortech Stopped-Flow System
- Durrum D-110 Stopped-Flow System
- Stopped-Flow Attachment for Aviv CD Spectrometer
Computational Facilities:
- 30 Windows-based laboratory and office computers
- 39 Apple G4/G5 laboratory and office computers
- Linux-based Molecular Graphics Workstation with Stereo Graphics
- Site license for Gaussian 03 and Gaussview software
Lasers:
- Continuum YG580-30/TDL-50 Nd3+-YAG pumped dye laser system
- Laser Photonics UV-24/DL-14P N2-pumped dye laser system
- Coherent Compex 110 ArF excimer laser
Other Equipment:
- Pulsed supersonic molecular beam apparatus
- Stanford Research Systems SR250 gated integrator (2)
- LKB 1214 Liquid Scintillation Counter
- Spex 500M 0.5 meter Scanning Monochromator with CCD detector
- Rigaku MiniFlex X-ray Powder Diffractometer
- TA Instruments Q100 differential scanning calorimeter
- Sorvall RC-5C superspeed refrigerated centrifuge
- DuPont RC70 refrigerated ultra centrifuge
- EG&G/PAR 264A Polarographic Analyzer (2)
- EG&G/PAR 303 Dropping Mercury Electrode (2)
- Vacuum Atmospheres Glove Box
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