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UT Tyler Department of Chemistry

Facilities

The chemistry department occupies the third and fourth floors of the Ratliff Engineering, Science and Technology Building South (RBS). Physics occupies a portion of the fourth floor in the Ratliff Building North (RBN).

Our facilities include the 400 MHz NMR room, five chemistry teaching labs, a computer teaching lab, two preparation labs, a cold room, five "wet" research labs, a theoretical research lab and a teaching assistant office.

Instrumentation

• NMR System Varian 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance system with a high resolution console and variable temperature and multinuclear capabilities.

Chromatographic Systems

• Agilent 6890N Gas Chromatograph/5975B Mass Spectrometer with an Ion Gauge Controller, a 7683 Auto Sampler and NIST05 Library.
• Hewlett Packard 5890 Gas Chromatograph with FID Detector.
• Series 200 HPLC System.

Infrared Spectrophotometers

• Nicolet Avatar 360 E.S.P. FTIR spectrophotometer with Horizontal Attenuated Total Internal Reflectance (ATR) Accessory.
• Nicolet iS10 FTIR with Vertical ATR Accessory.

UV-Vis/Fluorescence Spectrophotometers

• Varian Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer.
• Varian Cary 300 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer with a thermostat controlled Peltier 1 x 1 cell holder (x2).

Computer Facilities

• 12 Dell computers with the latest chemistry software located in the computer teaching lab.
• 6 Dell computers located in the chemistry major/teaching assistant room.

Other Equipment and Instrumentation

• JEOL JSM-6510LV Scanning Electron Microscope
• MBraun Glovebox
• Perkin-Elmer Aanalyst 200 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer with AS-90 Plus Auto Sampler
• BAS Potentiostat (details forthcoming)
• Ocean Optics Spectrophotometer USB 2000
• Beckman LS-700 Scintillation Counter
• Parr Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter (x2)
• Parr 6755 Solution Calorimeter
• Parr Hydrogenation Reactor
• Bausch & Lomb Abbe 3-L Refractometer
• Polyscience Model SR-6 Polarimeter
• Alfa Aesar Mark I Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
• 44" HP DesignJet T610 Poster Printer