CFI/BCKDF funded multi-user facility has been established within A-wing (Chemistry/Physics) of the Department of Chemistry. This facility provides academic members access to:
1) cutting edge synthetic tools for the preparation of new catalysts as well as carrying out catalytic reactions under a broad range of reaction conditions
2) state-of-the-art high-throughput purification and characterization instruments for the isolation and identification of product mixtures resulting from catalytic reactions.
- Microwave Reactor
- Glove Box with Parallel Synthesis Capabilities
- High-Pressure Reactors (Various Reaction Volumes and Pressures)
- Carousel Reactors for Bench-Top Parallel Synthesis
- Constant Temperature Bath
- React IR – for In Situ Reaction Monitoring can be interfaced with high-pressure reactor
- Automated Flash Chromatography
- IR Spectrophotometer
- GC/MS with EI source on MS detector enantiomeric resolution capabilities
- GC/MS with parallel FID and CI source MS detector enantiomeric resolution capabilities
- LC/MS/MS with ESI and APCI source for triple-Quad MS detector
- SFC (Supercritical Fluid Chromatography) with UV/Vis detector enantiomeric resolution capabilities
- UHPLC (Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography) with ELS (Evaporative Light Scattering) Detector enantiomeric resolution capabilities
- Capillary Electrophoresis enantiomeric resolution capabilities
- GPC (Gel Permeation Chromatography) with FID detector
In addition to equipment located within the facility, academic members have access to the following departmental facilities to support research:
- Biological Services Laboratory
- High Resolution NMR Spectroscopy
- Mass Spectrometry/Microanalysis
- Shared Instrument Facility
- X-ray Crystallography
