Instrumentation Facilities

Below is a list of the top-of-the-line equipment that the Department of Chemistry offers to students to use while they are enrolled in classes at Wichita State.

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Analytical Lab

  • EG&G (Princeton Applied Research) Model 263A potentiostat/galvanostat
  • Hitachi U-2010 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
  • IT Puresolv 7-port solvent purifier
  • Jasco P-2000 polarimeter
  • Mettler Toledo C20 Coulometric KF titrator
  • Microcal iTC200 low volume isothermal titration calorimeter
  • SPEX Tau3 Fluorolog Fluorescence spectrophotometer
  • ThermoNicolet Avatar 360 FTIR (2)
  • Varian 1200 LC/MS
  • Varian Cary 100 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
  • Varian HPLC Star Workstation with UV Detection
  • Varian Saturn 2200 GC/MS with Varian 3800 GC
  • Varian SpectrAA 55 Atomic Absorption
  • Varian Star 3400 cx gas chromatograph

Analytical/Inorganic teaching lab (McKinley 202)

  • Nicolet Magna-IR 550 Series II FTIR
  • Shimadzu UV-1650 PC Uv-Vis

Biochemistry Instrumentation Lab (McKinley 417)

  • Agilent 6890 GC
  • Beckman-Coulter J2 centrifuge
  • Beckman-Coulter J2-mc centrifuge
  • Beckman-Coulter LE-80K ultracentrifuge
  • HP 8452 diode array
  • Isotemp 8956 Ultra-low freezerSoftware
  • Isotemp C90-14431 Ultra-low freezer
  • Jasco J-810 CD Spectrometer
  • Olis RSM 1000 UV/Vis Rapid-Scanning Spectrophotometer
  • Steris Amsco Lab 250 Autoclave
  • Varian HPLC with Prostar 210 (2), Shimadzu RF-535 fluorescence and Varian 340 uv/vis 

Biochemistry teaching lab (McKinley 229)

  • Beckman-Coulter Optima L-90K ultracentrifuge
  • Fisher Marathon 3200R centrifuge
  • Varian Cary 100 bio UV-Vis

Laser Lab

  • ThermoNicolet Nexus 870 FTIR with PEM module, Raman module, centaurus microscope and step scan capabilities 

Mass Spectrometry Capabilities

NMR Facility

Organic teaching labs (McKinley 201, 230)

  • Buchi Rotavapor R-114 (2)
  • GOW-MAC 350 gas chromatograph (2)
  • Parr 3911 hydrogenation apparatus

Physical Chemistry teaching lab (McKinley 306)

  • Bruker EMX Electron Spin Resonance
  • Dataphysics PCA 100/4 contact angle
  • HP 8452A Diode array
  • Parr 1356 bomb calorimeter
  • Perkin Elmer DSC-6
  • Spectrasense + Roper Scientific Fluorescence
  • TA Instruments Q2000 DSC

Software

  • Chemdraw – Available to all WSU faculty, staff and students 

X-Ray Facility

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