Facilities
Synthesis
The lab is fully equipped for preparing air-, moisture-, and temperature-sensitive compounds, polymers, and materials:
- > Espresso synthesis machine
- > 9 Fumehoods with thermostatted hotplate-stirrers equipped with Schlenk lines
- > Low-temp cooling baths
- > Four single-station MBraun gloveboxes of various vintages equipped with freezers (one equipped with a cold port)
- > Solvent purification system
- > Centrifuges
- > Variable temperature sonicator
- > Glassware ovens and a custom-built ROP oven
- > A LuzChem photoreactor covering a broad spectrum with modular tubes
- > Freeze Dryer
- >Rotovaporators
- >Several fridges/freezers including a -80C freezer
- > A 3D printer
- > Balances
Analytical facilities
Researchers also have access to:
- > Multiple NMR spectrometers
- > CAMTEC Microscopy/Spectroscopy infrastructure
- > Powder X-ray Diffractometer
- > Rheometer and Thermogravimetric analyzer
- > Polymer characterization tools: GPC, DSC, DLS
- > UV-Vis spectrometer with low-temp unit
- > A single-crystal X-ray diffractometer
Student Office
The student office comfortably accommodates 8-10 researchers and is equipped with an Espresso machine, fridge, microwave, central network drive, and group computer. All researchers in the group have access to Gaussian 16 and the Amsterdam Density Functional 2017 suites through Compute Canada’s high performance clusters. We generally perform all computational modelling in-house with departmental and external collaborations as needed to supplement our capabilities.