Department of Chemistry
Resources & Instruments
Inventory & Supplies
- Chemical Inventory System*
Contact jcbrown [at] haverford.edu (Joanne Brown) for a username and password for system
* Must be on Haverford network/VPN - Order Form for reagents and supplies
Form must be signed by research mentor and returned to jcbrown [at] haverford.edu (Joanne Brown)
General
- Chemistry Storage Server
Connection only available on Haverford College network
- Hazardous Waste Inventory Form
- Student Resource Guide
- Departmental Meeting Minutes
Instruments & Software
Contact dfabry [at] haverford.edu (Daniel Fabry), instrument specialist with any questions regarding instruments
Contact dfabry [at] haverford.edu (Daniel Fabry) for a username and password for scheduling system
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

Agilent 7890 Gas Chromatograph / 5975 Mass Spectrometer
Equipped with flame ionization and electron impact ionization detectors (GC/MS)
Perkin-Elmer Clarus-500 Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer System

Equipped with electron impact ionization.
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UV-visible spectrophotometers
- Shimadzu 160U
- Perkin-Elmer Lambda 2
- Jasco V-570 with variable temperature
- 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;
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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;
- 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).
- 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)
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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
- -70° C Storage Freezer
- Vacuum Pumps (various)
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.