RESOURCES

Our laboratories at Portland State Universitry comprise newly renovated space laboratories (2500 sq. ft) in the Science Research and Teaching Center (SRTC) and and 500 sq. ft at the new Robertson Life Sciences Building (RLSB).  There is adequate equipment and bench and space for each group member, including 17 hoods equipped with vacuum lines for air and moisture-sensitive syntheses.  The laboratories have been designed specifically for synthetic organic chemistry as well as molecular sensing and bioanalytical studies.  

Our laboratories house the following:

Cary Eclipse Fluorescence spectrophotometer and Cary 50 UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Varian Inc.)

Initiator+ Microwave Reactor (Biotage) and CentriVap Benchtop Vacuum Concentrator (Labconco)

1525 Binary HPLC delivery system, 2996 Photodiode Array Detector, 2475 Multi Lambda Fluorescence Detector and Post-column Reaction Module with Temperature controller (Waters).

SP1 Flash Purification System (Biotage).

Explosion-proof fridges and Revco Ultima II Ultra-Low Temperature Upright Freezer 13.4 cu. ft.; -80 ºC (Thermo Scientific).

Rotatory Evaporators R-210 (Buchi) with DryFast Self-Cleaning Dry Vacuum System Model 2026 (Welch)

Centrifuge Model 5804 (Eppendorf)

Computers:

Graduate student and postdoctoral associate offices are equipped with personal computers (PCs) with all of the appropriate software and internet access for carrying out our research projects.  In addition the group has a Precision 490 workstation (Dell) for computer-assisted modeling. 

Desktop PC for molecular modeling equipped with a Phenom II X6 1090T processor at 3.20 GHz (AMD), Nvidia Quadro FX 580 graphics card, 3D vision emmiter and glasses, Asus VG236 (3D-ready) monitor with maximum resolution at 1920 x 1080 at 120 Hz, 8 GB RAM. OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.