University of Louisville

Department of Chemistry
Mailing address:

Department of Chemistry
University of Louisville
2320 South Brook Street
Louisville, KY 40292

Phone Numbers:
(502) 852-6798 (phone)
(502) 852-8149 (fax)

Facilities, Equipment and other Resources

NMR Spectroscopy
Instrumentation Capabilities
Varian Inova500 Liquid phase, multinuclear 3 channel with PFG capabilities
Bruker AMX-500 Liquid phase, multinuclear, inverse and spin locking capabilities, selective pulses
Varian/Anasazi FT 90 Liquid phase, proton and carbon (teaching labs)
Homebuilt/Magnex 500 MHz Solid state, triple resonance, CPMAS, CRAMPS
 Varian 800 MHz

Collaboration with Brown Cancer Center

 

EPR Spectroscopy
Varian E-109 Century Series X-band frequency, electronic and structural properties
Infrared Spectroscopy
Mattson 5020 FTIR Spectrometer DRIFTS (diffuse reflectance) (4000-400 cm-1)
Mattson 8020 FTIR Spectrometer ATR (attenuated total reflection)
Mattson RS-1 Configured for NIR Spectroelectrochemistry
Nicolet Impact 410 FTIR Spectrometer Quick-IR and OMNIC software (teaching labs)
Optical Polarimetry
Jasco DIP 370
UV-Visible Spectroscopy
HP 8452A diode array spectrophotometer Liquid and film studies of electronic spectra 
(200 - 800 nm)
Atomic Spectroscopies
Perkin-Elmer flame AAS Solution species single component analysis with ppm detection
Gas Chromatography
3 Gow Mac 350 GCs
GC-Mass Spectroscopy
HP 5890 GC with 5971A Separate and identify volatile organic components
HP 5890 GC with HP5970 quadrupole MS Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Mass Spectrometry
MALDI-TOF PE Biosystems Voyager DE-Pro Linear and reflectron modes, delayed extraction, post-source decay, timed ion
Fourier Transform-Ion Cyclotron Resonance-Mass Spectrometer (FT-ICR-MS) Thermo LTQ-FT, which is an ion trap MS interfaced to a FT-ICR-MS with CID, ECD, and IRMPD dissociation modes, with sources such as ESI, nanospray (including the Nanomate) and Mass Tech
AP-MALDI-PDF
Thermo X-Series Collision-Cell ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer) with New Wave 213 nm Laser Ablation System and Microsampler  
Scanning Electron Microscopy
ISI with EDX capabilities (Geology) Image resolution to 1 & microm, elemental analyses to 1% (w/w)
X-Ray Crystallography
Rigaku Dmax B (ChemE.) Powder diffraction patterns
Bruker AXS diffractometer with CCD detector Single crystal diffractometry, Cu and Mo targets. Variable temperture range 90 K - 300 K
EN Guinier camera Powder diffraction patterns
Rigaku-MSC RU-H3R Rotating Anode Generator with Mar345dtb X-ray detector Macromolecular X-ray Diffraction
Molecular Modeling
Linux network with six 4-processor and two 8-processor boxes running Gaussian 98, AMBER, PQS and other quantum chemistry, statistical chemistry and graphics codes. Additionally, there are Silicon Graphics computers running MSI software for computational chemistry, surface science, NMR and other applications. These include two O2s and one Octane.
Molecular Modeling Facilites at the

Brown Cancer Center