Facilities Available


Currently Chemistry at CSUSM has the following items of major equipment available to support organic/inorganic, physical/instrumental and biochemistry/ molecular biology laboratories:

  1. Bruker ARX 300MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer with a tunable multinuclear probe
  2. 3 Nicolet Avatar FTIRs, 2 Thermo-Nicolet 202 FTIRs, & 1 Model 550 Nicolet FTIR with ATR, DR, & SR attachments
  3. Shimadzu UV/VIS model 2101, 3 Schmadzu UV model 160-U and 14 Spectronic 20 Visible Spectrometers
  4. Agilent Diode-Array and Varian-Cary 100 UV/VIS Spectrophotometers
  5. 2 Hewlett Packard GC Model 5890
  6. Hewlett Packard HPLC Model 1050, 3 Rainin SD-200 HPLC Systems , and 2 Shimadzu HPLC
  7. Hewlett Packard GC/MS model 5972A
  8. Varian Spectra 220 and Thermal Jarrel-Ash Model AA-Scan I Atomic Absorption Spectrometers
  9. Beckmann Ultra Centrafuge Model L7
  10. DuPont/Sorvall Refrigerated Centrifuge Model RC-5B
  11. Beckman Centrifuge Model CS-6R
  12. Napco Incubator Model 5430
  13. 6 Table top Centrifuges
  14. Johnson Matthey Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
  15. Parr Bomb Calorimeter Model 1455
  16. Electrochemistry Apparatus
  17. 10 refrigerators/freezer
  18. VAC Atmospheres Inert Atmosphere Box
  19. 2 Speedvac Centrifugal Evaporator
  20. 4 Gow-Mac Model 69-350 Preparative Gas Chromatographs with reporting integrators
  21. 4 Gow-Mac Model 580 FID Gas Chromatographs with reporting integrators
  22. 4 Buchi rotoevaporators
  23. 6 vacuum systems
  24. 9 solvent purification distillation apparatti
  25. 7 Protein gel electrophoresis apparatti
  26. 24 microscopes (binocular, dissecting, Alphaphlot)
  27. 7 microcentrifuges
  28. 20 Sartorius and 34 Mettler analytical and top loader balances
  29. 12 digital melting point apparatti
  30. Forma Biological Safety Cabinet
  31. Mitsubishi Video Projector
  32. Mitsubishi 27" Monitor/VCR/Laser Disk System
  33. Rigaku Miniflex X-ray
  34. 24 Laboratory Macintosh/PC computers networked to a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet printer (12 use Molecular Modeling Software "Spartan", Chem Draw, & Chem3D Plus)
  35. Laser Polarimeter
  36. 10 Mettler and 8 Fischer pH Meters
  37. Fluoromax Fluorometer and Aminco-Bowman Series 2 Luminescence Spectrometer
  38. Bio-Rad Trans-Blot SDTransfer Cell

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