Chemistry Training Track Facilities

The chemistry training track has state of the art facilities for research in the area of organic chemistry.This includes:

NMR facility: The facility presently operates four Varian NMR spectrometers devoted to use for synthetic / natural products chemistry. In addition to these instruments the UTSW campus has additional NMR / Imaging technology available, including an 800 MHz NMR with a cryoprobe. Standard nuclei (e.g. 1H, 2H, 13C, 31P, 15N, 19F, 11B, 29Si, 195Pt) are observable.

Chemistry NMR systems:

Varian System 600 MHz NMR*
Varian INOVA 500 MHz NMR
Varian INOVA 400 MHz NMR
Varian Mercury 300 MHz NMR

*The 600 MHz NMR is equipped with an HPLC-SPE liquid handling system for high-throughput flow analysis of complex mixtures.

X-Ray facility: The biochemistry department houses an X-ray defractometer (Nonius kappaCCD) for small molecule X-ray analysis.

Additional equipment: A common use equipment room containing the following instruments:

Infrared spectrometer (Perkin Elmer 1000)
UV spectrometer (Shimadzu 1601)
Polarimeter (Autopol IV)
CD spectrometer (Aviv)
Microwave reactor (Biotage Initiator)
Large scale hydrogenator (Parr)

Mass Spectrometry: Individual labs are equipped with LC-MS (ESI, APCI) and/or GC-MS.

Chromatography: Individual labs house autosampling GC’s and HPLC’s, preparative HPLC’s and automated medium-pressure chromatography systems.

Research Facilities Across UT Southwestern

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is situated on a sixty-acre campus, approximately two and one-half miles northwest of downtown Dallas. The medical center is presently undergoing expansion with the development of the North Campus on a nearby forty-acre site.

The laboratories of the 250 faculty of the Division of Basic Science (DBS), and the support laboratories available for their use, provide access for students to the equipment and facilities required for conducting state-of-the-art biomedical research. A central computer facility, animal facilities, electronics and machine shops, a comprehensive library and core laboratories for protein and oligonucleotide synthesis and sequencing, antibody production, NMR, computer modeling, etc. are available on the campus.

First year students are housed in a suite of rooms containing carrel space and lockers, a lounge area with kitchen, a lecture hall and administrative offices. A computer (PC) is installed in each of the five 12-student carrel rooms.