Department of Chemistry

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

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.

• Operating Instructions
• Video: How to put on a spinner
• Video: How to remove a spinner

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

• Direct Injection Instructions

Equipped with electron impact ionization.

• Instructions
• Manual Tuning
• Video: Manual Injection

• 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;

• Infrared spectrophotometers
  one Nicolet Magna 550 and two Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 1000 FT
  • Nicolet Magna 550 Instructions
  • Nicolet Magna 550 - Saving and Loading spectra
  • Sample Preparation for Perkin Elmer IR Spectrometers
  • Instructions for Perkin Elmer IR Spectrometers
  • Changing Internal Desiccant in Perkin Elmer 1000 IR Spectrometers
• 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;

• Princeton Applied Research 273 Electrochemical Analyzer with mercury drop electrode
• Buck Scientific Accusys 211 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
  • Atomic Absorption Instructions
• 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)
  • Instructions for using Buchi Rotavapor
• 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)
  • Instructions for using vacuum pump