The Morgan laboratory: facilities and equipment

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina is considered a top 40 academic chemistry research institution in the U.S. It occupies a 100,000 sq. ft. facility equipped with numerous synthetic and analytical laboratories, and has a host of departmental support services such as secretarial, computer facilities, machine shop, and electronic/computer shop. The Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in the Department currently has 7 mass spectrometers: two high resolution magnetic sector-quadrupole instruments, a triple quadrupole instrument dedicated to ESI, APCI and LC-MS, and several quadrupole instruments. The Departmental NMR facility includes a Varian Inova 500, a Bruker Avance/DRX 400, a Varian Mercury/VX 400, and a Varian Mercury/VX 300 NMR spectrometers. Fees for MS or NMR analyses are nominal. Click here for more information on departmental facilities.

The Morgan laboratory occupies ~1,700 sq. ft. in the Graduate Research & Science Center (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, USC). Major equipment available includes:

Leco Pegasus II gas chromatograph with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, equipped with a laser pyrolysis system developed in-house and a Chemical Data Systems 2000 heated filament Pyroprobe with a CDS model 1500 valved interface:

Hewlett Packard 5890 gas chromatograph with a G1800C GCD system, equipped with a CDS Analytical AS-2500 pyrolysis autosampler and a Thermo-Orion EZ-Flash fast GC unit:

Hewlett Packard 5890 gas chromatograph with a 5988 mass spectrometer, equipped with electron impact ionization, chemical ionization, and a direct inlet probe:

Suprex SFE/50 supercritical fluid extractor:

Thermo Nicolet Nexus 670 FT-IR spectrometer with a Research Plan IR microscope and several ATR accessories:

Craic UV-Vis/fluorescence microspectrometer:

JY Horiba Raman microscope:

Beckman P/ACE MDQ capillary electrophoresis instrument with diode array detection, interfaced to a MicroMass Q-TOF Mini mass spectrometer:

Hewlett-Packard 3D capillary electrophoresis instrument with diode array detectionr:

Olympus polarizing light microscope:

The laboratory also has several additional GC systems and a Hewlett-Packard liquid chromatograph with a diode array detector:

Other photos...

[ jpg ] Beckman Coulter Biomek 2000 liquid sample-handling robot
[ jpg ] Logo writing with the robot
[ jpg ] Beckman/Coulter capillary electrophoresis instrument installed
[ jpg ] Beckman/Coulter capillary electrophoresis instrument
[ jpg ] Beckman/Coulter capillary electrophoresis instrument
[ jpg ] Beckman/Coulter capillary electrophoresis instrument

[ jpg ] Brandi Clelland opening the Q-TOF box
[ jpg ] MicroMass Micro-Q-TOF instrument installed
[ jpg ] MicroMass Micro-Q-TOFz-spray ion source
[ jpg ] Brandi with quad
[ jpg ] Looking down quad
[ jpg ] Vacuum leak (fixed now)
[ jpg ] Top view of detector on left flight stack
[ jpg ] Looking down flight tube holder towards reflectron
[ jpg ] Looking down flight tube on left pulse stack on rt
[ jpg ] View of quad, CID cell, and hexapole lens

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