This is our main lab in LSEB 820.

 

We have nine 8 foot hoods.

 

Two people share a hood, so there is space to set up lots of reactions. Andrew & Jianglong demonstrate...

 

Each hood also has its own sink area. (Thank you for the smile, Sujata!)

 

Each nook has two desks with shelves and filing cabinets.

 

Xiaoguang shows what typical desk area looks like with a grad student in it!

 

There are solvent columns for dichloromethane, ether, tetrahydrofuran, hexane, benzene, and toluene

 

Andy demonstrates how to properly use the solvent columns!

 

 

We have four rotovaps and an in-house ethylene glycol cooling system

 

There are chillers for conducting reactions at low temperatures.

 

 

For photochemical reactions, we have two UV lamps for use at various temperatures, and the ability to run several reactions in parallel.

 

The equipment is contained in a specially designed metal cabinet.

 

 

Our HPLC has the ability for reverse phase and chiral separations.

 

We have three storage closets for chemicals and other items (this happens to be the organic chemicals closet).

 

 

 

There is a departmental 300 MHz NMR on the floor just above us...

 

The Chemistry Department also has a very nice 400 MHz NMR in the Chemical Instrumentation Center (CIC).

 

The conference room on the 8th floor where we have group meeting every week.

 

...view from conference room

 

 

We have our own computer room with 3 computers and printers.

 

Jianglong eats dinner in the 8th floor kitchen (there is a copy machine & a fax machine in the back).

 

View from the end of the hall (you can see Fenway Park on the upper right)!