CSUS Department of Chemistry Equipment and Facilities

The following is a partial listing of the more significant equipment, instruments, and computer facilities used by graduate students and by undergraduate chemistry majors in their advanced courses. These facilities are also available for the use of undergraduate researchers for special projects and senior thesis.

Equipment

  • FT Infrared Spectrometers
    • 2- Perkin Elmer Spectrum RX-1
    • Perkin Elmer 2000
  • GC-MS
    • Hewlet Packard GC-MS 5989B System
  • NMR
    • Bruker Avance-300, variable temperature, which includes 5 mm inverse broad band probe with field gradients, 5 mm QNP (H-1, P-31, C-13, N-15), and a 10 mm broad band probe. 
    • MSL-300 equipped for CP-MASS and other solids experiments.
  • Varian E-4 EPR Spectrometer.
  • Perkin Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer equipped with a graphite furnace.
  • Several HPLC systems including three Agilent 1100 series systems equipped with auto-samplers.
  • Several UV/Visible Spectrophotometers, including
    • A double-beam Shimadzu diode array system
    • A Hewlett Packard diode array system
  • Several Gas Chromatographs, including
    • 2- SRI 8610c gas chromatographs with FID and TCD detectors (one equipped with gas phase injection valve)
    • Hewlett Packard 5890 GC with FID and FPD detectors
    • Hewlett Packard 5890 series II GC with 5971 MSD and FID detectors equipped for trace gas analysis
    • A double-beam Shimadzu diode array system
    • A Hewlett Packard diode array system
  • A Beckman capillary electrophoresis system.
  • A DuPont 910 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
  • A DuPont 950 Thermogravimetric Analyzer
  • A Siemens D500 X-ray Diffractometer
  • A Shimadzu RF-5301 fluorescence spectrophotometer.
  • A Beckman ultracentrifuge with Schlieren optics.
  • Protein purification systems including
    • 2- BioRad Biologic Workstations
    • 2- Pharmacia FPLC Systems
    • 1- BioRad Econosystem
  • 2-ELIZA assay plate readers
 

Department Computer Facilities

The computer facilities within the Chemistry Department include a lab equipped with six 3.2 GHz P4 CPU running Win XP and Spartan '04 molecular modeling software packages. Throughout the department several faculty and groups are running other modeling and molecular visualization packages, running under Windows or Linux operating systems. These include CACHE, GAUSSIAN/ GAUSSView, GAMESS, AMBER, GROMACS, MOLDEN, and others.  A number of PC systems are networked with the instruments listed above.  These computer systems are equipped with software for analyzing data, processing spectra ( e.g. NUTS, Mestrec, Spinworks), and molecular modeling (HYPER-CHEM, QUANTA, SPARTAN '04, and GAUSSIAN 03).  An 8-processor 64-bit Opteron QuantumCube with 8 Gb RAM and 3 Tb disk storage running the PQS electronic structure program package and 3 Windows PCs running Molden, Chimera, ArgusLab, and Qmol are devoted to computational chemistry research.