Mass Spectrometry
The Department of Chemistry and Physics houses two mass spectrometers. One
is an inductively
coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS). The ICPMS is a Thermo
Elemental PQ ExCell and is housed in Dr. Wolf's
research laboratory.
A new
Thermo Finnigan iTQ-1100 GC-MS has recently been funded by a
Course,
Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant from the
National Science Foundation and was installed
in January, 2011. It is housed in room S34 and is used for both research and laboratory courses. This spectrometer
is capable of electron impact (EI) and chemical ionization (CI) modes as well as tandem
mass spectrometry (MSn). It is equipped with an 115 position autosampler for
large sample loads and direct probes are also available for semivolatile analysis.
The instrument is managed by
Dr. Fitch and
Dr. Kjonaas.
It is used by students in several courses including Chemistry 351L, 352L, 340,
355 and 461 as well as by
research students in the department.
