Group Facilities

The Hayes lab is housed in a new laboratory (completed May 2007) which is exceptionally well-equipped for synthetic chemistry. Equipment includes:

• Double station glove box, equipped with two -35 °C freezers, cold well and both small and large antechambers
  
  
  
  
  
• 2nd double station glove box, equipped with -35 °C freezer, digitial O2 sensor, and CCD camera for crystal manipulation
  
  
• Varian 4000 GC/MS with positive and negative CI, MS/MS, and direct insertion probe
  
  
  
  
  
• Elementar Americas Vario MicroCube Elemental Analyzer (C,H,N,O,S capabilities)
  
  
  
  
  
• 240 L liquid N2 dewar for easy access to liquid N2
  
  
• 1 Liquid N2 dewar (10 L), 1 dry ice storage chest
  
  
• 3 - 6' fume hoods, 1 - 10' fume hood
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 7 High vacuum lines (2 under Ar, 5 under Ar or H2)
  
  
  
  
  
• 1 Buchi B585 Kugelrohr distillation apparatus
  
  
  
  
  
• 1 Buchi rotovap equipped with a recirculating chiller
  
  
  
  
  
• 1 Large -30 °C freezer, 1 large oven, 2 sinks, many windows
  
  
  
  
  
• 1 Mettler balance (accurate to 1 mg), 4 Mettler analytical balances (accurate to 0.1 mg)
  
  
• 1 Sonicator, 1 blow torch (O2/natural gas) for flame sealing NMR tubes
  
  
• Plenty of glassware for air sensitive and non-air sensitive manipulations, various sizes of dewars, lab jacks, heating mantles and stirrer-heaters
  
  
• 3 Self-contained student offices with Dell computers