Laboratory

Tour

We occupy three rooms in the new Science Building, a synthesis laboratory (B210), adjoining office, and adjoining instrument room, which contains our Q-TOFmicro instrument. Have a look around! The movie below (Flash required) gives you a 360° view of one end of the lab - the group fumehoods are actually around the corner, as is the instrument room, but you can see one of our gloveboxes, the SPS, and the office.

The excellent facilities at UVic are also available to all research workers in the chemistry department.

Synthesis laboratory

The lab is well equipped to carry out air- and moisture-sensitive organometallic chemistry. Key items of equipment include an inert-atmosphere glovebox. The glovebox is used for handling and storing air-sensitive materials:

Our solvent purification system (SPS) avoids the need for solvent stills and provides water- and oxygen-free solvents "on tap":

Schlenk lines (vacuum/nitrogen manifolds) are mounted in each fumehood:

Office

The office adjoins the synthetic lab (Science Building, room B211). Students have their own desk and storage space.

Instrument room

This room houses our electrospray ionization mass spectrometers (ESI-MS). The Micromass Q-Tof micro is a compact but extremely powerful research-grade instrument, capable of accurate mass measurements to 5 ppm, a resolution of over 6000 (FWHM) and with a mass range of 20,000 m/z. Check out our research pages to see what it can do. The instrument is kept free of oxygen and water. It is connected to another inert atmosphere glovebox.

We also own a Thermo LCQ ion trap. It is capable of many stages of MS/MS - up to (MS)¹⁰ - and is equipped to enable ion-molecule reactivity studies.

View

The view from the office (top) and lab (bottom).