Facilities
Manhattan's Chemistry Department provides state-of-the-art instrumentation including an X-ray generator, Fourier-transform infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, a double-monochrometer fluorimeter, a recording double beam absorption UV and visible spectrophometer as well as computer interfaced, scanning spectrphometers, a mass spectrophometer, an atomic absorption spectrophometer with graphite furnace, four high performance liquid chromatographs, rotovaps, and gas chromatographs.
The Biochemistry Research Laboratory includes a cold room, preparative centrifuges and an ultracentrifuge, lyophilizer, electrophoresis apparatus, automated fraction collectors, and equipment for protein and nucleic acid biochemistry.