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Instruments & Software

Contact dfabry [at] haverford.edu (Daniel Fabry), instrument specialist with any questions regarding instruments

Instrument Scheduling

Contact dfabry [at] haverford.edu (Daniel Fabry) for a username and password for scheduling system

KINSC Instrument Core Facility

Shared Space Policy

We welcome Haverford College students, faculty and staff (from any department) to use Chemistry Department equipment/instrumentation.

Instruments

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers

Varian (Agilent) 500 MHz NMR spectrometer

Mass Spectrometry

Agilent 7890 Gas Chromatograph / 5975 Mass Spectrometer

Equipped with flame ionization and electron impact ionization detectors (GC/MS)

Agilent 1100 Liquid Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer
HPLC
Perkin-Elmer Clarus-500 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer System
GCMS

Equipped with electron impact ionization.

UV-vis (electronic) Spectroscopy

  • Time-resolved luminescence spectrometer
    equipped with a PTI 0.25-meter monochromator, a PTI R928 photomultiplier, and a Stanford Research Systems Model 250 boxcar integrator.
  • Perkin-Elmer 341 polarimeter
  • Hi-Tech SF51 stopped flow spectrophotometer
  • OLIS Instruments Low Temperature Stopped Flow Spectrometer
    with OLIS RSM 1000 rapid scanning monochromator;

Vibrational Spectroscopy

Other Analytical and Physical Instruments

  • Princeton Applied Research 273 Electrochemical Analyzer with mercury drop electrode
  • Buck Scientific Accusys 211 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
  • GBC-Difftech MMA powder X-ray diffractometer
  • Lasers
    one Liconix 2040 helium-cadmium, two Continuum Surelite Nd:YAG, PTI Model PL-2300 nitrogen, PTI Model PL-202 dye lasers, Spectra Physics 177-G02 Ar ion laser, and assorted diode lasers.
  • Computers used for Computational Chemistry.
    • The KINSC contains a shared instructional computer laboratory equipped with a Silicon Graphics Indigo Solid Impact workstation and about twenty Windows based computers running molecular modeling software (primarily PC Spartan Pro and Plus, and Insight/Discover).

Synthesis and Purification Equipment

  • Three automatic peptide synthesizers
    one Rainin Model PS3 and two Vega Biochemicals Model 250
  • VirtTis Model 3.3 benchtop lyophilizer
  • Sorvall RC5B high speed centrifuge
  • Rotary Evaporators (various)
  • Shimadzu 2014 Gas Chromatograph
    • Flame Ionization Dectector
  • Two Rainin high pressure liquid chromatographs
    one of which, a Rainin Model SD-200, has two pumps and is equipped with a variable wavelength Dynamax Model UV-C detector
  • BioRAD Biologic protein chromatography system
  • See also Mass Spectrometers

Miscellaneous Equipment

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Software
  • Gaussian and Gamess (via WebMO front end) for Quantum Chemical Calculations
  • Mathematica for mathematical calculations
  • ChemDraw software for chemical drawing
  • Origin for graphical representation and analysis of data
  • SciFinder Scholar for searching of the chemical literature
  • ConQuest software for searching the Cambridge Structure Database. We have software available from on-campus sites for searching and retrieving atomic coordinates from small-molecule crystal structures. See Rob Scarrow or Alex Norquist for a password and instructions to use this software.
  • MestReNova for analyzing and plotting 1-D and 2-D NMR spectra obtained on either of our departmental NMR spectrometers.

Recommended Software

There are also a number of free software resources used and recommended by our faculty members. Links to software download pages are provided below:

  • KnowItAll (Academic Edition) from BioRad is a structure drawing program also is able to figure out IUPAC names and simulates NMR spectra of small organic molecules. It only is available for Windows, and you must register with BioRad to get the free software.
  • Rasmol and RasMac. Freeware designed for 3-D viewing protein structures; can also be be used for small molecules structures. Available for both PC, Mac and UNIX platforms. May be downloaded from the IITS web site.
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