Faculty of Arts & Science
Chemistry & Biochemistry

Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Lethbridge!

Department members utilize research facilities that include state-of-the-art instrumentation, such as:

• 500MHz Varian INOVA Solution and Solid-State NMR Spectrometer
• 300 MHz Bruker Avance II Solution-State NMR Spectrometer
• Macromolecular Bruker-Nonius X-ray Diffractometer
• Small-molecules Bruker SMART Apex II X-ray Diffractometer
• Nicolet Avatar 380 FT Infrared Spectrometer
• Bomem MG-102 FT Infrared Spectometer with Csi Optics
• Burker FT Raman Spectrometer
• High Performance Computing Facility (5 TFlops)
• MicroCal Isothermal Titration Calorimeter
• Picker Flow Microcalorimeter
• High Temperature and Pressure Densimeter
• PARRSTAT 2273 Electrochemistry Workstation
• Cary 50 UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
• Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrometer
• HP 5593 Gas Chromatograph
• BioRad DuoFlow HPLC
• Pharmacia-FPLC
• Perceptive-Perfusion Chromatograph
• Biacore X Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectrometer
• Protein Solutins Dynamic Light Scattering Device
• SF-2004 Fluorescence Stoppped-Flow Instrument (KinTek Corp)
• RQF-3 Rapid Chemical quench-Flow (KinTek Corp)
• PerkinElmer Tri-CArb 2800TR Liquid Scintillation Analyzer

Wetmore Lab - High Performance Computing Cluster

The cluster is composed of 85 Dell PowerEdge 1950 compute nodes and 1 Dell PowerEdge 2950 master node. Each compute node has two quad-core processors, 146 GB disk and 4 or 8 GB of RAM. In total, there are 680 cores for scientific computing that are connected by Dell PwerConnect 6248 switches to yield a total peak performance of 5.0 TFlops. The masternode contains 2 x 146GB disks for operating system and programs, and 4 x 300GB disks for storage space.