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The
Turculet group occupies a state-of-the-art laboratory for synthetic
chemistry located on the 4th floor of the Chemistry Department
building. The laboratory, renovated in 2006 to our
specifications, also includes a separate student office.
Our lab is equipped with three brand new six-foot fumehoods, each of
which is equipped with a customized Schlenk line for manipulating
air-sensitive
substances. Since a majority of the ligands and
metal complexes that we prepare are air-sensitive, most of our
experiments are conducted in an inert-atmosphere glove box. Our
lab is equipped with two double station, double purifier MBraun glove
boxes. Each glove box is fully set up for synthetic experiments,
including built-in low temperature freezers and vacuum inlets. One
glove box is further equipped with a BASi electrochemistry cell stand,
thus allowing us to carry out electrochemistry experiements on highly
sensitive samples. We also have access to an MBraun 7-column
solvent purification system (SPS), which we utilize for obtaining dry,
de-gassed solvents (Et2O, THF, toluene,
benzene, pentane, hexanes, and dichloromethane).
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In addition to these facilities,
the Department of Chemistry is very well equipped with excellent
facilities for mass-spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, and
computational chemistry (64 node Beowulf cluster, ACEnet). The Atlantic Region Magentic
Resonance Center (ARMRC) is located just down the hall from our
lab, and provides access to world-class NMR facilities for both
solution and solid state experiments (250, 400, 500, and 700
MHz). We also have access to IR, Raman, and UV/Vis
spectrometers. In addition, extensive resources and equipment for
materials characterization are available through the Institute for Research in Materials at
Dalhousie.
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