INSTRUMENTATION
Overview
Our laboratory is fully equipped to synthesize and characterize air- and moisture-sensitive main-group and organometallic complexes.
Specialized Laboratory Equipment
- Double- and single-station gloveboxes
- Custom-designed Schlenk manifolds
- Custom-designed Schlenk flasks and glassware
- Photochemical reactor
- Solvent purification system and solvent stills
- High-pressure Schlenk flasks and lines
- Nikon SMZ1000 Zoom Stereo microscope
- Single-crystal X-ray diffractometer – Rigaku XtaLab Synergy-S
- Circulation chillers
Shared Departmental Facilities
- Varian Gemini 400 MHz and Bruker 500 MHz NMR spectrometers with a cryoprobe
- Shimadzu UV-2600 UV-Visible spectrophotometer equipped with an ISR2600Plus integrating sphere
- Horiba Fluorolog fluorimeter equipped with an integrating sphere
- Bruker FTIR spectrometer
- Advion Expression Model L Compact mass spectrometer
- LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer
- MALDI TOF mass spectrometer
- Agilent HPLC-MS system
Computational Facility
- Group members have access to the Gaussian and SCM software suites installed on the Cherry Creek cluster, which is part of UNLV’s National Supercomputing Institute.
Collaborative Advanced Facilities
In addition to the core departmental equipment, various advanced research facilities are accessible through collaborative efforts within the department and the College of Sciences.
- Inert atmosphere potentiostat
- Inert atmosphere Raman spectrometer
- X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectrometers
- Temperature-programmed desorption instrument
- Reflection absorption infrared spectrometer
- Auger electron spectrometer
- Low-energy electron diffractometer
- Scanning tunneling microscope
- Atomic force microscope