We are now housed in the fantastic new building for synthetic and analytical chemistry at York
State of the art facilities for chemical synthesis
Synthetic chemistry in action
Senior post-doc, Bart Nelissen in the lab
Open plan office space for PhD and project students
Office space for post-docs

Available within the D. K. Smith Research Group

• Standard synthetic and analytical apparatus available to the University of York Department of Chemistry. Includes Electrospray mass spec and multiple NMR machines - 270, 300, 400, 500 and 700 MHz
• Analytical Gel-Permeation Chromatography (Aqueous and Organic)
• Preparative Gel-Permeation Chromatography (Aqueous and Organic)
• Preparative HPLC
• Dynamic Light Scattering
• UV-Vis Spectrometer
• Fluorescence Spectrometer
• High precision temperature regulated oil bath
• Millipore Water Generator
• Potentiometric Titration Apparatus
• Sonic bath
• Software for analysis of binding constants (Hyp-NMR and Hyperquad 2000)
• Software for processing NMR spectra (Win NMR)
• UV lamp for polymerisation reactions
• Vacuum Oven

Analytical and preparative HPLC equipment
UV lamp for polymerisation reactions and photochemistry
Thermoregulated oil bath for thermal investigation of gels

In collaboration with Dr Victor Chechik at the University of York Department of Chemistry

• ESR

In collaboration with Green Chemistry at the University of York, Department of Chemistry

• Solid phase NMR spectroscopy
• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
• Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)

In collaboration with the University of York Department of Biology

• Circular Dichroism
• Confocal Microscopy
• Electron Microscopy
• Gel Eletrophoresis

In collaboration with the University of Nijmegen Department of Organic Chemistry

• Cryo-SEM
• X-ray scattering

In collaboration with Ian Hamley (University of Reading) (NEWI)

• X-ray and neutron scattering

In collaboration with ICI Technology

• Rheology
• Nanoindentation
• Atomic force microscopy