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The University’s Mass Spectrometry Center (housed in the Chemistry Department) is equipped with four mass spectrometers :

• The JEOL AccuTOF™ Mass Spectrometer is a LC-TOFMS (Liquid Chromatography Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer) using an orthogonal acceleration and a single stage reflectron. Our AccuTOF™ is equipped with a highly durable, orthogonal electrospray (ESI) source, and a contamination resistant, extremely versatile direct-analysis-in-real-time (DART) source.
• The Applied Biosystems QSTAR® XL Hybrid LC/MS/MS System is a hybrid quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometer (QTOF) using an orthogonal acceleration and a single stage reflectron. Our QSTAR® XL is equipped with an IonSpray, a TurboIonSpray, a NanoIonSpray, an atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI), and an oMALDI 2 ion sources. It is integrated with a LC Packings UltiMate™ fully integrated micro-, capillary-, and nano-HPLC system.
• The Applied Biosystems Voyager-DE™ PRO Biospectrometry Workstation is a bench top matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometer. It can be operated in linear and reflectron modes.
• The Waters Quattro II is a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. Our Quattro II is equipped with an electrospray (ESI) source and an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) source. It is integrated with an Agilent 1050 HPLC system.

The Chemistry Department also owns several Hewlett-Packard GC/MS instruments. Individual faculty members in the Department have customized MS instruments in their laboratories.