Instrumentation Laboratory

Gas chromatography; analytical and preparative HPLC; FT-IR and UV/vis spectroscopy.

Instruments:

• Unicam Pro-GC gas chromatography instrument:
  • Packed column manual injector and split/splitless manual injector, flame ionisation detector and thermal conductivity detector.
  • Columns: Polar packed column, non-polar packed column, Spherocarb carbon molecular sieve packed column (for gas analysis).
• Gilson analytical/ preparative HPLC instrument:
  • UV/vis detector, fraction collector, two Gilson H2 pumps for analytical and small scale preparative use (flow rates between 0.30 and 30 ml min^-1).
  • Columns: Hamilton PRP-1 reversed-phase analytical column, Hamilton PRP-1 reversed-phase preparative column.
• Gilson analytical HPLC instrument:
  • UV/vis detector, two Gilson 5SC pumps.
  • Columns: Hamilton PRP-1 reversed-phase column, Supelcosil LC-CN normal/reversed-phase column, Zorbax C8 reversed-phase column.
• Gilson isocratic analytical HPLC instrument:
  • UV/vis detector, Gilson 5SC pump.
  • Columns: Hamilton PRP-1 reversed-phase column, Supelcosil LC-CN normal/reversed-phase column, Zorbax C8 reversed-phase column.
• Cintra 10 UV-visible spectrometer:
  • Double beam, scan range 190nm – 1000nm.
• Perkin-Elmer 1600 and 1710 Infrared Fourier Transform spectrometers