Chemistry Facilities
The J.M. Smith Building
The Department of Chemistry is housed in the J. M. Smith Chemistry Building, a five-story structure with an area of approximately 125,000 sq. ft., centrally located at our Memphis campus.
The Smith Chemistry Building recently completed a $5M major hood, ductwork, and laboratory renovation. Thanks to the generosity of NSF funding, we were also able to acquire the following:
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- Varian flame AA and Varian graphite furnace AA instruments (CCLI, DUE 0088534)
- Bruker AXS D8 Advance X-Ray Diffractometer (MRI, DMR 0521226)
- Varian DirectDrive 500 MHz NMR spectrometer (CRIF, CHE 0443627)
- ThermoElectron LCQ Advantage liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer (MRI, CHE 0619682)
- Aviv 410 spectrometer with circular dichroism, absorbance, and fluorescence detection with titration, stopped flow, and temperature control accessories (MRI, CHE 0722973)
- Substational Computational Chemistry Focus and Computing Facilities
Instrument/Facilities Management Documents (Click to view PDF)
- Agilent UV
- Autoclave
- CD
- Cold room
- FTIR
- GCMS
- Glove Box
- JEOL NMR
- LTQ MS
- Solvent Purifier
- TGA
- UV-VIS
- Varian NMR
Other on-campus facilities are available in these research centers and labs:
Other On-Campus Facilities
Experimental Laboratory Resources available to the Department of Chemistry
- ThermoElectron LCQ Advantage liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer
- Varian Inova-500 MHz NMR spectrometer
- JEOL 270 MHz NMR spectrometer
- Aviv 410 spectrometer with circular dichroism, absorbance, and fluorescence detection with titration, stopped flow, and temperature control accessories
- atomic spectroscopy laboratory with Varian flame AA and Varian graphite furnace AA instruments
- Powder X-ray Diffractometer (housed in Physics)
- Atomic Force Microscope
- Varian ESR spectrometer (housed in Physics)
- single quadrupole LC-MS (micromass)
- GC mass spectrometer
- multiple HPLC systems
- ion chromatograph
- two high-end gas chromatographs
- FTIR microscopy facility
- two FTIRs
- Raman spectrometer
- diode array UV-visible spectrometer
- fluorescence spectrometer
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Thermogravimetric Analyzer
- Vacuum Atmospheres Solvent Purification System
- Agilent Technologies 8453 UV spectrophotometer
- SLM Aminco 8100 spectrofluorimeter modernized by OLIS
- Waters 600E HPLC system
- Langmuir-Blodgett trough
- Rayonet cabinet for photochemical reactions
- Loctite photocuring system
- two extruders, three sonicators, and one dyalizer for liposome preparation
- Ocean Optics UV-VIS spectrophotometer with reflectance adapter
- Surface Plasmon Resonance instrument
- A video editing and graphics lab (contact Dr. Burkey for availability)
- An in-house large format printer (42", 36", and 24" posters)
Electrochemical instrumentation:
- EG&G Princeton Applied Research Model 283 Computer controlled Potentiostat/Galvanostat equipped with a Model 1025 Frequency Response Detector
- EG&G Princeton Applied Research Model 273A Potentiostat/Galvanostat
- Solatron/Schlumberger 1250 Frequency Response analyzer/1286 Electrochemical Interface
- ECO Chemie PG Stat 12 multi-channel potentiostat
- CH Instruments Scanning Electrochemical Microscope
- electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance: International Crystal Manufacturing home made 10 MHz Quartz crystal microbalances using a Hewlett Packard 53131 Universal Counter
A complete cell culture laboratory equipped with:
- Synergy2 plate reader (BioTek) capable of absorbance, fluorescence, and luminescence detection
- low pressure FPLC system for affinity chromatography
- electrophoresis equipment
- PCR thermocycler
- flash chromatography system
- laminar flow hood
- multiple centrifuges
- rotovaps
- CO2 incubator
- shaker-incubator for bacterial cell culture
- shaker-incubator for insect cell culture
A separate optics laboratory equipped with:
- home built PAC (with a dye laser and three nitrogen lasers)
- a UV-VIS spectrometer
- high pressure (2000 atm) actinometer
- high pressure (2000 atm) flow cell
- two 150-watt xenon arc lamps
- a Rayonet UV reactor
Computational Resources
Specifications of the University-Maintained High Performance Computing (HPC) Center
- Please visit the University of Memphis HPC configuration page for details.
Shared Software Licenses on the HPC or within the Department of Chemistry:
- ADF and ADFGUI
- AIM 2000
- AMBER
- AOMix (software website)
- Autodock 3.0
- Dalton
- DOCK
- GAMESS-US
- Gaussian 09
- Jimp 2
- Molden
- Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) // Jacob McMillan has filmed some MOE video tutorials here // Accessing MOE from off-campus requires VPN to access the license server
- Molpro
- MOPAC / MOPAC2009
- NBO6
- NWChem
- ORCA
- PSI4
- PyMOL
- Scifinder
- Spartan
Software Licenses Available through umApps:
- Adobe Photoshop
- CambridgeSoft's ChemBioOffice Ultra
- IBM SPSS
- Matlab
- Wolfram Mathematica
Other Available Resources
- A dedicated fourteen workstation computer lab with visualization and computational software with unfettered access available to graduate students
- A dedicated twenty-four workstation computer lab with visualization and computational software with unfettered access available to both graduate and undergraduate students
- Each graduate student has a PC workstation in their office