Recent funding from sources such as the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Innovation Trust and the University of Windsor has permitted wholesale renovation of laboratory space and acquisition of state of the art equipment for research in chemistry and biochemistry.
A full listing of our laboratories and equipment is below, please visit some of our facilities websites by clicking the highlighted links below.
LABORATORIES:
Synthetic Laboratories
- Organic and Inorganic Synthetic Laboratories
- Inert Atmosphere Synthesis (Glovebox rooms)
- Biochemistry Laboratories
Facilities
- NMR Facilities
- Solid-State NMR Laboratory
- Single-crystal X-ray Diffractometers
- Powder X-ray Diffraction
- Mass Spectrometry
- AFM/STM Microscope
- Thermal Analysis: DSC and TGA-MS
- Cell and Protein Characterization Core
- Edinburgh Instruments FLS 1000 fluorescence spectrophotometer
Undergraduate Teaching and Laboratories
- Undergraduate Resource Centre
- Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories
DEPARTMENTAL EQUIPMENT - FULL LISTING
NMR Facilities
- More info on NMR Facilities
- Bruker AvanceIII 500 MHz, with BBFO Probe and MAS II unit for Solid State NMR
- Bruker Avance 300 MHz with BB probe, Ultrashield Magnet
- Bruker DPX 300 MHz with BB probe
- Bruker DRX 300 MHZ with QNP (probe 1H, 13C, 19F,31P) for Undergraduate Lab Use
Solid -State NMR Spectrometer
- Varian/Chemagnetics 400 MHz Wide-Bore Triple-Resonance NMR Spectrometer
- MAS NMR Probes 2.5 mm HX, 4.0 mm HX, 4.0 mm HXY, 5.0 mm HXY
- Wideline 5.0 mm HX probe; low-gamma tuning accessory
Electron Spin Resonance
- Bruker ESP 300e X-Band, Variable Temperature, microwave frequency counter
X-Ray Diffraction
- Bruker Apex - CCD Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer, Low-Temp. Attachment
- Siemens SMART System CCD X-ray diffractometer
- Bruker D8 Discovery powder X-ray diffractometer
Mass Spectrometry
- For more info on Mass Spectorometry, visit website
- Waters Xevo G2-XS Tof Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
- Waters SYNAPT G2-Si Mass Spectrometer
Infra-Red, Raman Spectroscopy
- Renshaw UV-Raman system and Raman Microscope
- Bomem DA3 FT-IR Spectrometer
- Bruker -Equinox – Infrared Microscopy and Mapping
Microscopy
- Digital Imaging Nanoscope 4 AFM/STM for atomic-scale surface imaging
Thermal/Physical Analysis
- Micromeritics ASAP 2010 Nitrogen adsorption analyzer
Synthetic Chemistry
- Elemental analysis: PerkinElmer 2400 combustion CHN analyser
- Buchi polymerization reactor
- Lauda Langmuir-Blodgett thin film fabrication systems
Gloveboxes
- Vacuum Atmospheres glove boxes
- Innovative Technologies glove boxes
- MBraun glove boxes
Chomatography
- GC/MS: Varian 3800 GC w tandem Varian Saturn 2000 GC/MS
Environmental Chemistry, Biomarkers and Toxicology Laboratory (ECL)
- Hewlett-Packard; 5890 Series II GC / 5970 Series MS (electron impart (EI) ionization)
- Agilent Technologies; 6890 Series GC / micro ECD and flame ionization detector (FID)
- Beckman-Coulter System: Gold HPLC/ Beckman 168 dual channel UV/vis absorption detector and JASCO FP-920 fluorescence detector
- Micromass/Waters HPLC-MS-MS system: Waters 2695 HPLC / Micromass Quattromicro tandem MS-MS and Waters dual channel UV/visible absorption detector
- Cytofluor; Series 4000, multi-well fluorescence plate reader
- Thermo Labsystems; Luminoskan Acent, multi-well chemiluminesce plate reader
- Laminar-flow hood for cell culturing and CO2 cell culture incubator