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:

• • 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:

• • Bioinformatics
  • Biosurface Center
  • Biomaterials Lab
  • FedEx Institute of Technology
  • Feinstone Center for Genomic Research
  • Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research
  • High Performance Computing
  • Integrated Microscopy Center

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
• AGUI
• AIM 2000
• AMBER
• AOMix (software website)
• Autodock 3.0
• CambridgeSoft's ChemBioOffice Ultra (software website) // Register to download
• 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

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