Department of Chemistry
Facilities and Instrumentation
Facilities
- General Chemistry lab, Payson Smith 305, with space for 24 students and adjacent offices and stockroom
- Analytical/Physical Chemistry lab, Science 352, 24 students and adjacent faculty offices
- Biochemistry lab, Science 366, 24 students, adjacent faculty office
- The newly renovated, state of the art Organic Chemistry lab, Science 363, 18 students, adjacent stockroom and instrumentation room
Instrumentation
The following instruments are located in the Chemistry Department, Portland Campus. Click on the link for online instructions.
- JY Horiba FluoroMax2 Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
- FTIR Thermo Electron 6700 FTIR (mid and far IR capabilities)
- Thermo Electron GC-MS (ion trap)
- Dionex Ion Chromatograph (Conductivity and Absorbance Detectors)
- Milestone Microwave Extraction/Digestion System
- 60 MHz FT NMR
- VXRS300 Varian 300 MHz multinuclear NMR
- Agilent HPLC
- Cary UV/Vis
- miscellaneous electrochemical apparatus
Other instruments available at USM
- ICP (ESP, Gorham)
Instruments available at other Maine Institutions
last update 13 Jul 09
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In addition to performing demonstrations, the USM Chemistry Club presents chemistry research from a variety of fields at the annual national ACS conference.
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