Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology has plentiful conference and seminar rooms, complete with
video conferencing capabilities. RIT has the capabilities to house summer workshop experiences
for students on campus with dormitory space and food service capabilities.
Standard teaching and research laboratories are plentiful and well equipped. The Chemistry
Department has stockroom staff, and technicians available to assist faculty and students with
standard research equipment and supplies.
There are 15 active research faculty in the department of Chemistry that occupy 6,700 square feet
of research space located in the Gosnell Building and Carlson Building.
Major Instrumentation includes:
NMR Spectrometer
Optical Spectroscopy
Separations
Materials
Characterization
Physical Chemistry
Other
Bruker DRX-300 NMR Spectrometer
PE LS-50B Fluor. Spectrometer, PE LS-55 Fluor.
Spectrometer, PE 1760x FTIR Spectrometer, Biorad
FTS3000 FTIR Spectrometer, Shimadzu UV-2401
UV-Vis Spectrometer (2), HP 8453 Diode Array
UV-Vis Spectrometer (2)
HP 1050 HPLC, HP 1090 HPLC, Agilent 1100
HPLC, HP 6890 GC – 5973 MS Detector GC-MS
PE Analyst 800 AA Spectrometer, HP 5890 GC,
EG&G 264A & 3003 SMDE, TA Instr. 2010 DSC,
TA Instr. 2050 TGA, Seiko DMS110 DMA, Seiko
DMS200 DMA, TA Instr. AR2000 Rheometer,
Randcastle RC-025-CF Microextruder, Nikkon
Optical Microscope w/ video imaging & Instec
Hot/Cold Stage
PE Analyst 100 AA, PE 241 Polarimeter, PE 141
Polarimeter
Bradford DV-11 Viscometer, Headway Research
PWN32 Microextruder, Ecomet II Polisher, Innert
Gas Chamber,
The University of Rochester
The University of Rochester has plentiful conference and seminar rooms, complete with video
conferencing capabilities. U of R has the capabilities to house summer workshop experiences for
students on campus with dormitory space and food service capabilities.
Laboratories:
Two facilities of special importance to undergraduate research are Hutchison Hall 473,
a lecture room with laptop projection equipment for oral presentations, and
Hylan 301, a computer-classroom. Approximately 150,000 sq. ft. of modern research laboratory
space is available, located in Hutchison Hall, a science building for Chemistry, Geology and
Biology. Undergraduate research students have the same access to research facilities as graduate
and postdoctoral research students. A wide variety of sophisticated research instrumentation for
spectroscopy, analysis, and computation is available for hands-on experimentation. Many of the
Department's instruments are specialized and in some cases unique, designed and built on site or
substantially modified from commercially available instruments to meet the specific needs of the
Department's researchers.
Computers:
A number of PC / Apple computers exist in each research group, and in addition we have Silicon
Graphics; Sun, and IBM workstations, modeling capabilities, and a 48 node cluster.
Major Equipment:
Varian 500 MHz spectrometer; Bruker 500 MHz NMR spectrometer, two Bruker 400 MHz NMR
Spectrometers; a Bruker 300 MHz NMR spectrometer; laser systems for absorption, fluorescence
and Raman spectroscopies, nonlinear four-wave mixing, electro-optic sampling, time-resolved
electron diffraction, photoelectron spectroscopy, temperature-jump studies, photoacoustic
calorimetry, and the initiation of photochemistry; Four Mattson FTIR spectrometers; Jasco J600
circular dichroism spectrometer; Siemans SMART CCD X-ray diffractometer; ultra-high-vacuum
facility; several UV-vis spectrophotometers and mass spectrometers.
The State University of New York at Brockport
SUNY Brockport has the capabilities to house summer workshop experiences for students on
campus with conference and seminar rooms, teaching space as well as dormitory space with food
service capabilities.
The Chemistry department has the following equipment available for teaching and research
purposes:
Electronic and Diagnostic Equipment
 Oscilloscopes: Tektronix TDS 620B 500 MHz Digital, Real Time, TDS 3000 300 MHz
Series Digital Phosphor, TDS 350 200 MHz Digital, Real Time, 2221A 100 MHz Digital
 Stanford Research Systems DG 535 Picosecond Programmable Pulse Generator
 Keithley 617 Programmable Electrometer and 570 Data Acquisition Station
High-Pressure Equipment
 Varian 7500 psi pressure syringe pumps (2), 60,000 psi manual pressure syringe pump,
ISCO 260 D 10,000 psi syringe pump
 Wilmad high-pressure/high-temperature IR cell
 7,500 psi homemade variable volume view cell w/sapphire windows
 5000 psi UV-Vis spectroscopic cells (2)
Lasers and Optical Equipment
 Quantel Brilliant Q-switched Nd:YAG Laser with frequency doubler and quadrupler
 OPOTEK Tunable OPO
 Oriel Optical Table with vibrational damping
 Rayonet Photoreactor
 Hg-Arc Lamp System with optical filters and Oriel light pipe attachment
Spectrophotometers (all with circulating constant temperature baths)
 Perkin Elmer Spectrofluorimeter and LS-3 Fluorescence Spectrometer
 Spex Fluorolog 3 Fluorescence Spectrometer (steady-state only)
 Perkin Elmer Lambda 800 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
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Varian Cary 210 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer with kinetics accessory and programmable
five-position sample turret
Mattson Genesis series FT-IR with diffuse reflectance accessory
Perkin Elmer 1750 FT-IR Spectrometer, 7300 PC upgraded to Windows system
Mass Spectrometer
 HP Series 5890 Series II UNIX Based Gas Chromatograph with HP5970 Series Mass
Selective Detector (GC-MS)
 JEOL DX-303 Sector Mass Spectrometer
Atomic Absorption/Emission Spectrometers
 GBC 932 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
 Perkin Elmer Optima 3000 Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer
 MicroNow 8100A x-band Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer
Mossbauer Spectrometer
 ASA S-600 Mossbauer Spectrometer
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
 Bruker AC-300 Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer with
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H/13C and broadband probes with 120-sample auto-sampler and variable-temperature
accessory
Chromatographs: Gas and Liquid
 HP 5790 Gas Chromatograph (GC); HP 5880A series GC (3); HP 6890 GC
 Waters 510 High Performance Liquid Chromatograph with gradient controller and optical
detector
 Varian HPLC with ternary pump, fixed wavelength detector
 Beckman/Altex Isocratic HPLC with Gilson variable wavelength detector
Vacuum Equipment
 Kontes High-Vacuum Line
 VAC Dri-Lab Glove Box
X-Ray Diffractometer
 Siemans 386X-A9 X-ray Diffractometer (shared with Physics)
High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge
DuPont Sorvall RC-5B Beckman L3-50 Ultracentrifuge (shared with Biology)
Monroe Community College
Monroe Community College has four 1200 sq. ft. chemistry laboratories for undergraduate
instruction. Two labs are equipped with six computers and a complete set of Vernier chemistry
sensors and interfaces as well as LoggerPro and Excel software. In addition the students have
access to another laboratory that has 13 computers.
Major instrumentation includes: Beckman DU-8 and Milton Roy Genesys 2 ultraviolet/visible
spectrophotometers, Perkin-Elmer 1310 and Jasco FT/IR-410 infrared spectrophotometers,
Perkin-Elmer 372 atomic absorption spectrophotometer, Shimadzu GC-8AIF and GC-8APF gas
chromatographs, Hewlett Packard GCD gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, and a Varian
EM360L NMR.
Nazareth College
Research facilities allow for three 600 sq. ft. laboratories for undergraduate instruction and
research.
Major instrumentation and equipment, housed in a 400 sq. ft. laboratory, include: a Bruker AC200 NMR spectrometer, a HP 3790A GC/MS with autosampler, and a HP 1090 LC with a diode
array detector and ChemStation software, a Perkin-Elmer 3300 AA with FIAAS and autosampler,
a Thermo-Nicolet Avatar 370 IR spectrometer, a HP 8453 UV-vis spectrometer with
ChemStation software, and a glove box.
The College also has access to SciFinder Scholar as well as numerous subscriptions to ACS online journals. The chemistry department provides the students with 18 computer workstations
housing software for chemical drawing (ChemDraw), molecular modeling (Spartan 04), and
spectroscopic data processing (Acron Nuts NMR and OMNIC IR).
St. John Fisher
Research Facilities include plentiful teaching laboratories and laboratories for active research
faculty.
Major Instrumentation includes:
250 MHz Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a Fourier-transform
infrared spectrometer, a scanning ultraviolet-visible spectrometer, two gas chromatographs and a
combination gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer.
Roberts Weslyan University
Research facilities include the 34,000-square-foot Smith Science Center, home to the Chemistry
Department.
Instrumentation includes: HP 8452A diode-array UV-visible spectrophotometer with Agilent
8453 UV-visible ChemStation software, reconditioned GC-MS, consisting of a Finnigan ion trap
detector interfaced to a Varian 3700 gas chromatograph, 1999, a new Biologic Low Pressure
Chromatography system was for student use in protein purification and characterization, Nicolet
510P Fourier-transform infrared spectrophotometer OMNIC 6 software for the collection and
processing of IR spectra. HP-1090 HPLC system HP-Agilent UV-visible diode-array
spectrophotometer with Agilent 8453A software; 90 MHz EM-390 Varian NMR was converted
to a FT-NMR with both 1H and 13C capabilities by Anasazi Instruments FT-NMR upgrade; LS-55
luminescence spectrofluorometer from Perkin-Elmer
State University of New York College at Geneseo
SUNY Geneseo's Chemistry Department is housed in a 5000 sq ft area in Greene Hall.
Each faculty member has dedicated labs for undergraduate research projects. Construction
is underway for a facilities improvement plan that includes an addition to the building for more
chemistry space as well as a complete rennovation of current space. Departmental
instrumentation that would be used in projects for this proposal includes a Spex Fluoro-Max
fluorescence spectrometer, an Applied Biosystems Model 7000 real-time PCR system, a Brucker
Avance DPX 300 MHz NMR spectrometer, and a BioRad Fluor-S densitometer/fluorimeter.
Other equipment in the department includes a Nd:YAG laser pumped optical parametric
oscillator, a Waters HP Series 1100 HPLC, a HP 5890 GC/MS, a Mattson Genesis II FTIR, BAS
CV50W and CV37 cyclic voltammetry systems, many centrifuges, incubators, cold boxes, and
electrophoresis systems.
Computer facilities at Geneseo are abundant and in fact, Geneseo has been recognized as one of
the "most wired" campuses in the nation. In addition to having the fastest lines, the campus has a
wireless network based on IEEE 802.11b technology. The network is accessible from every
building on campus. The campus also has a dedicated video conferencing facility to support the
broadcast of seminars to other campuses and to receive other seminars here.