The drover group
 The university of windsor, Windsor, ON
WE ARE MOVING TO WESTERN UNIV. - JULY 2023!

SYNTHESIS

We have seven fumehoods, each equipped with a dedicated double manifold vacuum/nitrogen line. A range of dry solvents (THF, pentane, ether, toluene, DCM, MeCN) are available from a Pure Process Technology Solvent Purification Systems (SPS).
NMR Facilities
  • Bruker Avance III 500 MHz, with BBFO Probe and MAS II unit for Solid State NMR
  • Bruker Avance 300 MHz with BB probe, Ultrashield Magnet
  • Bruker DPX 300 MHz  with BB probe
  • Bruker DRX 300 MHZ with QNP (probe ¹H, ¹³C, ¹⁹F,³¹P) for Undergraduate Lab Use
Solid-State NMR Spectrometer
  • Varian/Chemagnetics 400 MHz Wide-Bore Triple-Resonance NMR Spectrometer
  • MAS NMR Probes 2.5 mm HX, 4.0 mm HX, 4.0 mm HXY, 5.0 mm HXY
  • Wideline 5.0 mm HX probe; low-gamma tuning accessory
Electron Spin Resonance
  • Bruker ESP 300e X-Band, Variable Temperature, microwave frequency counter
X-ray Diffraction
  • Bruker Apex - CCD Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer, Low-Temp. Attachment
  • Siemens SMART System CCD X-ray diffractometer
  • Bruker D8 Discovery powder X-ray diffractometer
Mass Spectrometry
  • Waters Xevo G2-XS Tof Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
  • Waters SYNAPT G2-Si Mass Spectrometer
Spectrophotometry
  • Applied Photophysics, Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis Spectrometer
  • Aviv Circular Dichroic Spectrometer
  • Agilent 5340  and Varian Cary 50 UV/vis Spectrophotometers
  • Varian Cary Eclipse Fluorometer
  • Fluorescence Imaging: Zeiss Axiovert 200, with QImaging Retiga EX CCD camera
  • Varian UV-Visible Spectrometer
Infra-Red, Raman Spectroscopy
  • Renshaw UV-Raman system and Raman Microscope
  • Bomem DA3 FT-IR Spectrometer
  • Bruker -Equinox – Infrared Microscopy and Mapping
Microscopy
  • Digital Imaging Nanoscope 4  AFM/STM for atomic-scale surface imaging
Thermal/Physical Analysis
  • Micromeritics ASAP 2010 Nitrogen adsorption analyzer
Synthetic Chemistry
  • Elemental analysis:  PerkinElmer 2400 combustion CHN analyser
  • Buchi polymerization reactor
  • Lauda Langmuir-Blodgett thin film fabrication systems
Gloveboxes
  • Vacuum Atmospheres glove boxes
  • Innovative Technologies glove boxes
  • MBraun glove boxes​
Chromatography
  • GC/MS: Varian 3800 GC w tandem Varian Saturn 2000 GC/MS
Environmental Chemistry, Biomarkers and Toxicology Laboratory (ECL)
  • Hewlett-Packard; 5890 Series II GC / 5970 Series MS (electron impart (EI) ionization)
  • Agilent Technologies; 6890 Series GC / micro ECD and flame ionization detector (FID)
  • Beckman-Coulter System: Gold HPLC/ Beckman 168 dual channel UV/vis absorption detector and JASCO FP-920 fluorescence detector
  • Micromass/Waters HPLC-MS-MS system: Waters 2695 HPLC / Micromass Quattromicro tandem MS-MS and Waters dual channel UV/visible absorption detector
  • Cytofluor; Series 4000, multi-well fluorescence plate reader
  • Thermo Labsystems; Luminoskan Acent, multi-well chemiluminesce plate reader
  • Laminar-flow hood for cell culturing and CO₂ cell culture incubator
A range of synthetic glassware