Department of Chemistry
University of Missouri-Columbia
125 Chemistry Building
601 S. College Avenue
Columbia, MO 65211-7600
phone: 573-882-8374
fax: 573-882-2754
email: chemistry@missouri.edu
Physical Facilities
The department occupies two buildings on the east side of campus. The Chemistry Building, newer and larger of the two, was completed in 1972 and and was extensively renovated during 1998-2000. It provides modern, well-equipped space for all manner of chemistry research. In addition to research and teaching laboratories (a new teaching addition was opened in 1998), the four-story building has office space for faculty, staff and graduate students, as well as seminar rooms and the main chemical storeroom.
Schlundt Hall is the older building adjoining the Chemistry Building. This building provides state-of-the art classrooms, office space, chemistry computer laboratories, the X-ray facility, the machine shop, and the Breckenridge Chemistry Library. The Breckenridge Library contains current subscriptions to many of the major chemistry journals (including back issues), reference texts and monographs, and back issues of Chemical Abstracts and Indexes. Computer terminals link the reading room with the University Library System catalog, providing rapid searches for books and monographs. Anything not available in the Breckenridge Library likely can be found in Ellis Library, the University's main library, one block from the Chemistry Building.
This building underwent extensive renovation in 1998-1999.
Instruments
Modern chemistry research relies heavily on the use of sophisticated instruments. The department has an impressive number of major instruments that aid students and faculty in their work. Descriptions of the instruments follow.
In addition, individual research groups maintain instrumentation such as gas and liquid chromatographs and spectrometers that are specifically associated with their research activities.
NMR Facility
The department houses the campus Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center. This facility provides scientists within the campus with sophisticated NMR capabilities. Five multinuclear, Fourier-transform instruments are available, operating at 800 MHz, 600 MHz, 500 MHz, 300 MHz and 250 MHz. The 800 MHz spectrometer, our newest instrument, is housed in the Schweitzer Hall Addition. The facility is staffed by two spectroscopists who are available for assistance in user-training, selecting and setting up the proper experiments. The NMR Facility enhances the research efforts of many scientists by providing high-resolution NMR data for structural characterization and dynamic study of molecules containing nearly any NMR active nuclei. More info >>
Small-Molecule X-Ray Diffraction Facility
The X-ray Diffraction Center has facilities for powder diffraction and for single crystal studies of small molecule samples. Powder diffraction data is collected on a Scintag X2 diffractometer with a Peltier-cooled energy sensitive detector. The small molecule single crystal instrument is a Bruker SMART CCD system with an integrated liquid nitrogen low temperature device. More info >>
Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Facility
A state of the art X-ray diffraction system for the analysis of protein and macromolecular crystals is housed in the Elmer O. Schlemper X-ray Diffraction Center located in Schlundt Hall. The system consists of a Rigaku RU/H3R rotating anode generator, R-Axis IV++ and R-axis IV image plate detectors, two Osmic confocal optical systems, and two X-stream low temperature devices. The facility is directed by Dr. Charles L. Barnes. More info >>
Synchrotron Beamline Access for Protein Crystallography
Researchers in the Chemistry Department enjoy access to synchrotron beamline 4.2.2 of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through membership in the Molecular Biology Consortium (https://www.uic.edu/casp/orgs/mbc/index.asp). Beamline 4.2.2 is a state-of-the-art tunable superbend beamline that is used mainly for high-resolution diffraction studies of protein crystals. More info >>
Nuclear Research Reactor (MURR)
The University's research reactor in Research Park, 1 mile south of campus, is the highest powered, highest flux university research reactor in the United States. Known throughout the world by its call letters MURR, the facility provides intense sources of neutron, gamma and neutrino radiation for research and applications. Scientists from more than two dozen departments conduct research at the reactor. The facility also is available to researchers from other universities and from government and industry.
The central research tool is a 10-megawatt flux trap reactor. The neutron irradiation flux reaches 6 x 1014 n/cm2s, and the neutron beams have source fluxes of 1.2 x 1014 n/cm2s. Other neutron irradiation facilities and a hot cell also are available. Research tools at the facility are complemented by 26,000 square feet of laboratory space, designed for radionuclide and ionizing radiation work.
The department maintains a radiochemical research laboratory at the reactor and shares neutron diffraction equipment with other departments. High resolution gamma ray spectrometers are available for activation analysis and short-lived radioisotopes are produced for chemical, biological and medical studies. More info >>
Mass Spectrometry Facility
The Mass Spectrometry Facility provides structural elucidation of individual compounds and complex mixtures by a variety of mass spectrometry methods for the University of Missouri and outside users. Currently there is a triple-quadrupole Finnigan TSQ7000 mass spectrometer which is equipped with electrospray (ESI) and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) in positive and negative ion modes. Samples can be injected into the ion source directly or following separation using high performance liquid chromatography. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses are available by using full scan, single ion or selected reaction monitoring. A variety of tandem mass spectrometry experiments can be performed with ions produced by ESI or APCI methods. More info >>
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