Arduengo Laboratory
Space
and Capabilities at Georgia Tech
The
Arduengo group at Georgia Tech is
bilingual (English-German) and welcomes a diversity of scientific and
cultural experieces. The group's workspace occupies modern
research facilities in Georgia Tech's Molecular Science ad Engineering Laboratory (MoSE) on the
Georgia Tech Campus in Atlanta.
The design of the Arduengo lab space at Tech is a mix of industrial
and academic laboratory styles; the aim of which is to capture an
industrial-style research output coupled with a framework for education
and academic discovery. The group utilizes 55 m2
of lab space and 22 m2 of
office space devoted to synthetic chemistry. A typical lab workstation
is outfitted
with standard synthetic equipment, such as
glassware, Schlenk lines, rotary evaporators, balances and
chromatographic equipment. The Arduengo laboratory space also offers 4
single-worker (1.5 m) hoods, two moisture- and
oxygen-free
single station glove boxes with freezers, 1 double station glove box,
and 12 linear meters of bench top space. Synthetic procedures can be
conducted from milligram up to 12 liter (multiple Kg) scales . Equipment is also
available for gas manipulations and reactions, and a variety of
photochemical equipment supports synthetic and physical
photochemistry. The laboratory is also
equipped with gas metering stations that are plumbed throughout the
space. These stations are capable of delivering gases in
milligram to kilogram
quantities and meter by either weight or volume, or both. This
capability is rare in an academic synthetic setting. Training on
and access to these facilities is highly sought by many of our
colaborators.
Collaborations with other research groups at Georgia Tech enable the
application of the Arduengo group's chemistry with unusual valency to
problems such as pharmaceutical synthesis, photovoltaics, nonlinear optical materials,
sustainable chemistry, and catalysis.
Georgia Tech's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry has access to a machine shop, a glassblower and
glassblowing shop, and an electronics repair and design facility. A full
suite of structural characterization instrumentation is available for group projects. The NMR center
provides campus researchers with access to solution NMR instruments at
field strengths up to 800 MHz, solid-state NMR capabilities at up to
700 MHz, and an imaging capability for small specimens. MRI
capabilities for larger specimens, including people, are available
elsewhere on campus. enter for Computational Molecular Science and Technology
(CCMST) provides computer resources for collaborative and
individual projects involving experimentalists and theoreticians
in our school and elsewhere on campus. It also hosts computational
chemistry classes and workshops. The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Systems Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
provides tailored proteomic, metabolomic, and analytical chemistry
support to researchers across campus as well as to other academic and
industrial institutions both state- and nationwide. The core
facilities are located in the basement of the Parker H. Petit Institute
for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB) and the basement of the
Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB).