Research Facilities

Chemistry Library

The Chemistry Library is located on the 2nd Floor of the Graduate Chemistry Building, Room 299. The new 2nd floor reading room has been completely renovated with new furniture providing seating for 90 people. The reading room houses the Chemistry Library’s reference collection and current print journals. The remainder of the collection, including the back issues of print journals, books, theses and spectral data, is located in the basement of the Chemistry Building. Library staff will retrieve items from the basement facility upon request.

In keeping with modern library design, the reading room accommodates both individual and group study. For those interested in quiet study, there are carrels set along the windows overlooking the “Zebra Walk”. For users wanting to access the thousands of online library resources including SciFinder , the Web of Science, Reaxys, and electronic journals, the computer area includes eight networked PCs. The new lounge section, featuring eight modern leather chairs, provides a comfortable space to sit and read. For group study, the Library is furnished with many tables including some with inset whiteboards for drawing formulas and equations to help facilitate group interaction and learning. The library is open from 8:30am - 5pm Monday - Friday.  Visit the Chemistry Library.

NMR Facility

The NMR Facility at Stony Brook University is housed in the Department of Chemistry and is currently composed of 5 superconducting magnet NMR instruments operating at 600 MHz, 500 MHz, 400 MHz, 300 MHz, and 250 MHz proton frequencies. These instruments are capable of a wide variety of liquids, imaging, and solids NMR experiments and are dedicated to supporting research programs across multiple disciplines, but are largely focused towards programs in structural biology and chemistry. The 600 MHz, 500 MHz, two 400 MHz, and 300 MHz instruments are Varian Inc. NMR instruments. The 250 MHz instrument is a vintage A/C Bruker instrument that has been modified with a Techmag computer console replacement. The 600 MHz, 500 MHz, and both 400 MHz NMR instruments are state of the art research grade multi channel and multi nuclear pulsed field gradient instruments with Varian Unity Inova RF consoles. The 300 MHz Varian instrument operates with a Gemini 2300 console and is also a gradient console. The 250 MHz NMR instrument is a straightforward multinuclear NMR instrument without gradients but is capable of inverse detection experiments. For more details please visit the NMR facility webpage.

Mass Spectrometry Facilities

Our synthetic and biological programs are facilitated by state-of-the-art mass spectrometry instrumentation. We are fortunate to have both instrumentation and expertise available within the chemistry building and within our on campus Proteomics Facility. The departmental mass spectrometry instrumentation includes a Bruker AutoFlex II MALDI-TOF/TOF, an Agilent 5973 MSD/6890 Series GC and an Agilent 1100 LC/MSD. The proteomics facility, directed by Prof. Toni Kohler, houses a Thermo Fisher Scientific LTQ Orbitrap XL ETD, an Applied Biosystem Voyager DE-STR MALDI-TOF, a Thermo Fisher Scientific LTQ XL and a Thermo Fisher Scientific TSQ Quantum Access triple quadrupole.

Materials Characterization

Critical to the success of our strong program in materials chemistry is the availability of modern, state-of-the-art instrumentation for structure elucidation of both crystalline and amorphous materials. Stony Brook is extremely well equipped to conduct such research, with 2 single crystal diffractometers and 3 wide bore NMR machines in the Department of Chemistry, and powder diffractometers, microscopes (SEM, TEM, and AFM), high pressure cells for synthesis, etc. available on campus. Scattering experiments, designed to probe polymer properties such as crystallization, gelation and micellization are performed in-house, and at synchrotron sources such as the NSLS or the Advanced Photon Source, where dedicated instruments are available.

Computational Resources

Recently significant investments have been made to support the excellent and growing computational community at Stony Brook. The first is the installment of New York Blue, a $26 million dollar supercomputer, under a cooperative agreement between Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Labs. The second is the founding of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, located in 15,000 square feet of newly renovated space. It will be home to 5 PIs, more than 40 students, junior fellows, and postdocs, in addition to administrative staff and a state of the art computational resource.  These recent developments enhance an already thriving community that had previously taken advantage of the Seawulf computational cluster, a custom-built 470-processor Linux Cluster. The cluster uses 3.4GHz Intel Pentium IV Xeon CPUs interconnected with Gigabit Ethernet.