Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis Facility

Frantisek Svec,
Facility Director

This facility provides instruments and techniques dedicated to the study of "soft" materials: organic molecules, macromolecules, and their assemblies. It provides access to component synthesis, libraries, functional assemblies, hybrid, and porous materials. In addition to self-assembly, synthesis techniques range from "classical" organic to combinatorial to polymerizations in solution, bulk, emulsion and suspension. Laboratories house several glove boxes, polymerization reactors, and high end instrumentation for purification and analysis of both small organic molecules and macromolecules.

• Bruker Biospin Avance II 500 MHz High Performance NMR Spectrometer with various probes incl. multinuclear CP-MAS probe
• Applied Biosystems TF4800 MALDI-TOF-TOF Mass Spectrometer
• Bruker Daltonics MicroTOF-Q mass spectrometer
• Varian 3200 FT-IR spectrometer
• Viscotek Size exclusion chromatograph with four detectors
• Dionex UltiMate 3000 nanoHPLC System
• Agilent 1200 nanoHPLC system
• Agilent GC-MS 6890 chromatograph
• ChemSpeed Multiplant reactors
• Micromeritics ASAP 2020 Surface area and porosity measurement
• Hy-Energy Sieverts type high pressure hydrogen sorption analyzer
• Horiba Light Scattering particle size distribution analyzer LA 950
• Biotage Microwave reactor