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Labs for 21 Century
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Chemistry

October 2018 sees the launch of a brand new, integrated practical course in the
newly-completed teaching laboratories.

Michaelmas Term sees the launch of the new, integrated gas chromatographs, an HPLC set up for analysing chiral
chemistry practical course in our brand new, state-of-the-art compounds, a TLC-mass spec, ICP/MS, Flame AA and of
teaching labs. The two main labs are spread over two floors, course the usual array of FT-IR and UV-Vis spectrometers.
and can each accommodate 100 students. In addition, there In addition, our undergraduates will be some of the first
is a large seminar room equipped with the latest audio-visual in the UK to use the new generation of bench-top NMR
equipment, two write-up areas and a bright and welcoming spectrometers – seven are available in the two laboratories.
reception area. Much of this has been made possible through the generous
support of our alumni, to whom both staff and students are
Each floor has its own dedicated prep room and across immensely grateful. Undergraduate Tim Nash, who has just
the corridor from the second and third year lab is a large completed his second year at St Catz said, “The old labs have
furnace room and analytical suite which houses equipment their charm, but it is exciting to look forward to working in
worth over £2M for undergraduate use. As well as a brand the new ones with so many state-of-the-art instruments.”
new multinuclear NMR spectrometer, there are three

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