Haverford Chemistry Instruments and Facilities
Spectrometers: NMR / MS / UV-vis / IR / Raman /AA
Other Analytical and Physical Instruments / Synthesis and Purification Equipment / Miscellaneous / Facilities
Hyperlinks lead to Instructions where available, in pdf format. The original (Word) documents for these files are kept on the campus departmental storage server (departments / chemistry / public_readonly / instructions). Additional instructions for maintenance of instruments are also kept at that location.
Scheduling for NMR and LC/MS: use the Haverford Chemistry Resources organization on the Blackboard site
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers
- Bruker ARX 300 and Avance 200 MHZ NMR spectrometers
- Quicknotes for 1D spectra (pdf)
- Quicknotes for 2D spectra (pdf)
- Additional instructions (troubleshooting information and additional tips for using the 300 MHz NMR spectrometer).
Mass Spectrometry
- Agilent 1100 liquid chromatograph / mass spectrometer system
- Perkin-Elmer Clarus-500 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer System
with both electron impact and chemi-ionization capability, interfaced with a HP 5890 gas chromatograph and also equipped for direct sample insertion
UV-vis (electronic) Spectroscopy 
- UV-visible spectrophotometers
- Shimadzu 160U
- Perkin-Elmer Lambda 2
- Jasco V-570 with automatic temperature control (.pdf or .doc)
- Spex Fluorolog 2 photon-counting spectrofluorimeter
- 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
- Infrared spectrophotometers
one Nicolet Magna 550 and two Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 1000 FT - Nicolet 950 FT-Raman spectrometer
- Dispersive Raman spectrometers
- SPEX 500 Raman spectrometer, equipped with a liquid-nitrogen cooled
CCD camera;
ISA THR1000 spectrometer equipped with a thermoelectrically cooled photodiode array detector;
- SPEX 500 Raman spectrometer, equipped with a liquid-nitrogen cooled
CCD camera;
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)
- Two Varian 3300 gas chromatographs
equipped with integrators - 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
- -70° C Storage Freezer
- Vacuum Pumps (various)
Facilities
- Most of our offices and laboratories are in the East Wing of the Marian Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, construction of which was completed in 2002.
- Our facilities include the following teaching laboratories:
- Intro. Chemistry lab - capacity 32 students. 6 large fume hoods (see picture at top of this page).
- Organic Chemistry lab - capacity 24 students, each of whom has a 4' fume hood or shared use of a 6' fume hood.
- Junior-level integrated laboratory - capacity 20 students, with hoods as in the Organic lab.
- Physical Chemistry Instrumentation laboratory, housing most departmental instruments
- NMR lab, housing the two FT-NMR spectrometers used in our teaching program (hands on use starting with Organic Chemistry).
- Each permanent faculty members has a ca. 800 sq. ft. research laboratory with 1 - 4 fume hoods.
- 4° C Cold Room Laboratory