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FACILITIES

The Department of Chemistry has teaching and research laboratories throughout Oelman Hall, Fawcett Hall, and the Brehm Laboratories. The department has over 30,000 square feet of teaching and research space. The department has dedicated teaching laboratories for the following disciplines: inorganic, organic, physical, environmental, quantitative analysis, and instrumentation chemistry courses. Every faculty member has their own independent research facilities. The department supports a Research Instrument Center located on the Oelman Hall fourth floor next to some of the chemistry research faculty.

Recent renovations of Oelman Hall (constructed in 1966) and the Brehm Laboratories (constructed in 1973) provide up to date teaching and research facilities to support the undergraduate and graduate teaching mission of the department. Each fall the chemistry department teaches nearly 2500 students in chemistry lectures and laboratories. Two of the new chemistry teaching labs are shown to the right and below.

The Chemistry Department has facilities and personnel to support both the research and teaching missions of the department.. The College of Science and Mathematics employs two instrumentation specialists, maintains an electronics shop with four electronics technicians, and maintains an instrument shop.  The department has two instrumentation laboratories. One houses many of the department teaching instruments, while a second laboratory houses shared research instruments.  In addition many professors have their own research instruments.

The entire university is networked with cable and wireless connections for easy data transport between research sites, offices and laboratories. The University network allows connection to OhioLink, the library system for all member universities in Ohio, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center. OhioLink provides quick access to a full range of scientific databases (e.g., SciFinder Scholar, Science Citation Index) and electronic journals for quick retrieval of information directly to most desktop computers

 

Chemistry Instrumentation

In the past few years the Department of Chemistry has obtained over 20 new instruments to enhance the teaching and research mission. The vast majority of these are available for "hands-on" use in our undergraduate teaching laboratories, though they share a dual mission for the research enterprise.

Click on the pictures below to see an expanded view of instruments in the Department of Chemistry. Below the pictures is a table of some of the instrumentation that is maintained by the Department of Chemistry and research faculty. Each instrument in the table has a link to a file that gives a more detailed description.

Varian Atomic Absorption Spectrometer	Varian Atomic Absorption Spectrometer with Graphite Tube Atomizer	Bruker AXS SMART X2S Benchtop Diffractometer	Beckman-Coulter Centrifuge	HP Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer

Varian High Performance Liquid Chromatograph	Varian Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer	Bruker Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer	Horiba - Raman Spectrometer	Micromeritics - Surface and Porosity Analyzer

Gel Permeation Chromatograph with Viscotek Detector	Thermo - Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer	Dionex - Ion Chromatograph	TA - Differential Scanning Calorimeter	TA - Thermogravimetric Analyzer

Thermo - Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer	CEM - Explorer Hybrid Microwave Synthesizer	CEM - MARS - Microwave Synthesizer	Agilent Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer	Varian Cary 50 Ultraviolet-Visible Wavelength Spectrophotometer
Varian - Gas Chromatograph	Rigaku - Miniflex II Desktop X-Ray Diffractometer	Bruker Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer	Atomic Force Microscope	Agilent Liquid Chromatograph- Mass Spectrometer