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.

 Shared biochemical instrumentation facility
 NMR Facility
 Shared chemical instrumentation facility

 

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
  • 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)

  • HP 8452 Diode Array
  • Thermo Avatar 360 FTIR

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
  • Nicoya Lifesciences Open SPR Protein Interaction Analyzer
  • Beckman Optima L-90K Ultracentrifuge
  • ThermoScientific Ultra-Low Series Freezer

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
  • HP 8452A Diode array
  • Parr 1356 bomb calorimeter
  • Perkin Elmer DSC-6
  • Spectrasense + Roper Scientific Fluorescence
  • TA Instruments Q2000 DSC
  • Varian 710-ES ICP-OES

X-Ray Facility

  • Bruker Kappa APEX II SC-XRD
  • Bruker X8 Prospector SC-XRD
  • Rigaku MiniFlex P-XRD
  • Structure request form (PDF Form) 

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