Facilities

View the analytical instruments and synthesis facilities that support the research and services offered by the Ferrier Research Institute.

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Analytical instruments

NMR

• Two Bruker 500 mHz and one Bruker 300 MHz NMR spectrometers on site.

Mass spectrometry

• Waters Q-ToF Premier LCMS service on site.
• Agilent 6130 LCMS with an Agilent 1260 HPLC front end.
• Agilent GC and Agilent GCMS.

HPLC

• Four stand alone Agilent HPLC systems with diode array (DAD), refractive index (RI) and charged aerosol detection (CAD).
• Dionex high-performance anion exchange chromatography system with pulsed amperometric detection (HPAE-PAD).
• Waters HPLC system interfaced with a multi-angle laser light scattering detector (MALLS).
• HPLC detection systems:
  • charged aerosol detection (CAD)
  • evaporative light scattering (ELS)
  • fluorescence
  • UV detection, including photodiode array (PD).
• General Electric ÄKTA protein purification system.
• Laboratory viscometry measurement apparatus.

Synthesis equipment

• Two flow microreactors
• ThalesNano H-Cube® flow hydrogenation reactor
• 8 Büchi Pure C-815 Flash automated flash chromatography systems with UV and ELSD detection
• Polarimeter
• Microwave reactor
• Reaction calorimetry apparatus
• Pressure hydrogenation facilities