The Chemistry Department is in Nobel Hall of Science and has eight research laboratories, some of which are shared between two groups, dedicated to year-round research activity.
Current Chemical Instrumentation for Research at Gustavus Adolphus College
- Varian 320 LC/Triple Quad MS system
- Varian 210 HPLC gradient elution system
- Dionex ICS-1000 Ion Chromatograph
- HP(Agilent) 5890/5970 GC/MS
- HP 5890 GC (FID)
- Varian 3000 GC (ECD)
- Varian/Cary 100 UV-Vis
- HORIBA Jobin Yvon Fluoromax-4 fluorescence spectrophotometer
- Perkin-Elmer 201 Fluorimeter
- Nicolet 560 FTIR (MCT detector)
- Bruker Tensor 27 FT-IR (DTGS, reflectance samples)
- Shimadzu TOC-V Organic Carbon Analyzer
- Pine Instruments Bipotentiostat
- YSI Model 32 Conductance meter
- Linux 16-node computer cluster (molecular modeling, available on the network)
- Nanosecond Nd:YAD laser system
- Rayonet RPR-100 Photoreactor
- Varian Gemini 2000 300 MHz FT-NMR with a multinuclear probe
- Li-Cor DNA sequencer
- Fuji LAS-3000 CCD imager
- Packard Cyclone Phosphorimager
- Beckman LE-80K Ultracentrifuge
