INSTRUMENTATION




Several research laboratories, namely HPLC and micro/nano-HPLC laboratories, micro-synthesis laboratory, capillary electrophoresis/capillary electrochromatography laboratory, gas chromatography laboratory, optical microscopy laboratory were established in the Department of Chemistry during the period 1999-2002.

Opening of laboratories

Equipment available:

• HPLC equipment with UV, fluorescence, conductivity-culometric-electrochemical, refraction index detectors: Hewlet Packard (USA); LKB (Sweden); Perkin Elmer (USA); Shimadzu (Japan); Dionex (USA); Esa (USA); SpectraPhysics (USA); Knauer (Germany).
  
• capillary electrophoresis/capillary electrochromatography automated instruments with DAD or fast scanning UV-VIS detectors: two HP ^3D with diode array detectors (Agilent Technologies, USA); BioFocus 3000 (BioRad, USA); SpectraPhoresis 1000 (SpectraPhysics, USA).
  
• modular micro/nano-HPLC sets for isocratic and gradient chromatography (9 sets of differnt brands: Jasco (Japan); Linear (USA); SpectraPhysics (USA)) equiped with autosamplers (Perkin Elmer 200; SpectraPhysics 3000 (USA)) and data aquisition systems: ChromStar (Brucker, Germany); Data Apex (Czech Republic)
  
• gas chromatographs with different detectors: two HP5890 FID (Hewlet Packard, USA); two Carlo Erba Instruments GC 6000 (FID/ECD) and GC 8000 (Carlo Elba, Italy)
  
• fluorescence, inverse and common optical microscopes with capability of PC documentation: Leitiz (Germany); Olympus (Japan); Novex (Holand)
  
• UV-VIS and fluorescence spectrophotometers (HP 8452A (USA); Milton Roy; LS-4 Perkin-Elmer (USA); )
  
• APCI/ESI LC-MS/MS (Finnigan TSQ 700 (USA))
  
• Supercritical fluid extraction apparatus (HP 7680T SFE Module, USA)
  
• Fermentator (LH Fermentation, UK)
  
• Freeze-dry apparatus (Labconco, USA)