Chemistry Operations and Facilities

Dabney Hall

Most of the Department's research activities are conducted in Dabney Hall, a nine-story building with facilities designed for undergraduate teaching and graduate research. Facility Centers include the Mass Spec Facility, the NMR Facility, the X-ray Structural Facility, and the Electronic Instrument Shop. The Mass Spectrometry Facility. The Mass Spectrometry Facility currently has 6 instruments, consisting of two LC/MS systems, two GC/MS systems, one MALDI-TOF, and one high resolution sector instrument. The facility is staffed by Matthew M. Lyndon, Facilities Supervisor.

The position of master glassblower in the Scientific Glassblowing Service is currently vacant. Please contact Ken Hanck at (919) 515-5641 or by email at Ken_Hanck@ncsu.edu for information.

The NMR Facility provides resources for solid-state and solution spectroscopy for the University community and organizations in the Research Triangle area. The facility is staffed by Hanna Gracz, Ph.D. Biomolecular NMR Center Supervisor and Sabapathy Sankar, Ph.D., Lab Supervisor

The X-ray Structural Facility serves the structural needs of the Department of Chemistry, the University community and organizations in the Research Triangle area. Crystal and molecular structures are determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The facility is staffed by Paul Boyle, Ph.D., Facility Director.

The Electronic Instrument Shop maintains and supports all laboratory equipment and computers in the Department of Chemistry and maintains all NMR Spectrometer systems and assists in the design of all test and diagnostic apparatus. The facility is staffed by Eddie Barefoot, Electronic Instrument Shop Supervisor, Tony Radford, Electronics Technician III, Leonard Page, Laboratory Mechanic II, and Alan Harvell, Lab Mechanic I.

Partners III

Partners III is a new state of the art, high tech facility on Centennial Campus devoted to nanotechnology research. Centennial Campus is viewed by many educators around the country as the campus of the future because of its a mixture of university, corporate, and government R&D facilities. Professors Dan Feldheim, Stefan Franzen, Chris Gorman, Lin He, and Dave Shultz and their research groups are located in Partners III. The chemistry research groups will occupy about 15,000 square feet of the 80,000 square foot Partners III facility, which is designed to house specialized nanoscience instruments that allow manipulation of single atoms.

Fox Hall

Fox Hall is Chemistry's new undergraduate science teaching laboratory. The department occupies 28,450 square feet of the 82,500 square foot building with laboratories, classrooms and a tutorial center. These facilities serve approximately 3,500 students per semester in both General (CH 102 and CH 202) and Organic Chemistry (CH 220, CH 221, CH 223) laboratory courses. In addition, our Organic majors lab, CH 221M is also taught in Fox Hall. Dr. Susan Hendrickson is the Director of General Chemistry Laboratory Program and Dr. Maria Gallardo-Williams is Director of the Organic Chemistry Services Program. Marcie Belisle is the Laboratory Supervisor for the General Chemistry labs and JoAnn Burtness is the Laboratory Supervisor for the Organic Chemistry services labs.