Haverford Chemistry Instruments and Facilities
Instrument Scheduling
Reserve a specific time for the instruments below via Google Calendar.
- 200 MHz NMR - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- 500 MHz NMR - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- AA Spectrophotomer - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Agilent LC/MS - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Fluorescence Spectrophotometer - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Jasco UV-Vis - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Magna 500 IR - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Perkin Elmer GC/MS - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Perkin Elmer IR #1 - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Perkin Elmer IR #2 - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
- Thermo Nicolet Raman/FT-IR - Availablity | Reserve Equipment
INSTRUMENTS ON-LINE!
To schedule instrument time:
- Check instrument availability
- Log into the 'Reserve Equipment' calendar
- Choose an available time slot
Contact Dan Fabry if you need help operating any instrumentation
You must forfeit your time if you do not reserve online!
(Click on red hyperlinks below or connect to the chemistry storage server for instrument PDF files.)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers
- Varian 500 MHz NMR spectrometer
- Bruker 200 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
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Perkin-Elmer Clarus-500 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer System
Equipped with electron impact ionization.
UV-vis (electronic) Spectroscopy 
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UV-visible spectrophotometers
- Shimadzu 160U
- Perkin-Elmer Lambda 2
- Jasco V-570 with variable temperature
- 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
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Infrared spectrophotometers
one Nicolet Magna 550 and two Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 1000 FT - Nicolet 950 FT-Raman spectrometer
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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)
- 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
- -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
- Gilbert White Science Library with spectroscopy references


