Resources and Links
Laboratory space
The Malapit laboratory is located at the G wing of the Technological Institute (Tech Building) at Northwestern. The Malapit lab has over 2,200 sq ft of working space, including wet and dry laboratory space, an instrumentation room, student offices, a conference room, and a pantry. The laboratory space has ten hoods, lab benches, and an instrumentation room equipped with state-of-the-art instruments for synthetic chemistry. Hoods are equipped with a Schlenck line, and each student will be assigned with their own hood, a lab bench, and an office desk. A conference room equipped with a projector and display system is connected to the laboratory and used for formal and casual meetings.
Instrumentation
The following instruments will be available in the Malapit lab in 2022:
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GC-MS with autosampler
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GC-FID with autosampler
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SFC-MS (supercritical fluid chromatography with UV and MS detectors)
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Two double gloveboxes
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Solvent purification system
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Two automated flash chromatography
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Three rotary evaporators
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Two multi-channel potentiostats
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Several ElectraSyn and carousels
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Analytical and top-loading balances
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Chemical refrigerators and –20 °C freezer
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Ovens and a vacuum oven
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Other equipment: desiccators, cryocooler with a pump, syringe pumps, and others.
Department Core Facilities, Institutes, and Centers
IMSERC (Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center)
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NMR spectroscopy
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Mass spectrometry
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X-ray crystallography
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and other state-of-the-art instrumentation
ISEN (Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern)
CCSS (Center for Catalysis and Surface Science)
REACT (Reactor Engineering and Catalyst Testing) facility
CLP (Chemistry for Life Processes Institute)
IIN (International Institute for Nanotechnology)
Other relevant centers and institutes: LEAP (Center for Light Energy Activated Processes), NU-HTA (Northwestern High Throughput Analysis laboratory), PCE (Proteomics Center of Excellence), and more.
NU-LED (NU Laser and electronics design)
SAFETY (safety in the laboratory, chemical hygiene, waste, incident reporting, etc.)
Responsible conduct of research
Chemistry Links
American Chemical Society (ACS)
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
Chemical Data
Solvents (properties, green solvents and chromatography)
Electrophile/nucleophile reactivity (Mayr, poster 2016, poster 2020, organocatalyst and organometallics)
Protecting groups
eROS
Pharmaceutical drugs
Agrochemicals
Techniques in synthetic chemistry and electrosynthesis
NotVodoo
CV beginner's guide
Electro-organic synthesis beginner's guide
Schlenck line
Organic reactions
Organic Chemistry Portal (OCP)
Named reactions (Taber, SynArchive, ReactionFlash App)
Named rules and trends
Total synthesis (Trauner, Docherty and Taber, SynArchive, Natural products)
NMR Spectroscopy
1H NMR shifts, 13C NMR shifts, J(H-H), J(C–C) and J(C–H)
Multinuclear (19F NMR shifts and coupling constants, 31P NMR shits and coupling constants, 11B NMR shifts)
Multiplicities
