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Chemistry


Drexel’s Department of Chemistry offers a B.S. degree certified by the American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training and a B.A. degree for those interested in following their undergraduate educations in chemistry with professional school, such as law or medicine.

Each student plans a course of study and selects electives in consultation with an advisor in the Chemistry Department. Students who show initiative and laboratory ability are encouraged to select a research problem and/or other advanced courses in chemistry during the junior and senior years. Most graduate courses in chemistry are open to qualified seniors. Prerequisites and descriptions of available graduate courses appear in the graduate catalog.

Both a five year co-op degree and a four-year non-co-op degree are offered.

Facilities
There are seven undergraduate learning laboratory environments in the department: three freshman Chemistry labs, an advanced Organic Chemistry lab, a Physical Chemistry lab, an instrumentation laboratory and a combined Analytical/Inorganic Chemistry lab. The freshman and Organic labs were recently renovated to be state-of-the-art facilities.

Research laboratories cater to investigations in Analytical Chemistry (four), Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (three), Physical Chemistry (three), and Polymer Chemistry (two).

Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Finnigan LCQ LC-MS mass spectrometer for Electrospray Ionization MS, a VG 70SE high resolution mass spectrometer, and a VG TOFSPEC MALDI mass spectrometer.

Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
Varian INNOVA 300 MHz superconducting FT-NMR spectrometer, Varian INNOVA 500 MHz superconducting FT-NMR spectrometer, and a Varian X-band 12" EPR spectrometer.

Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory
Newly renovated and open-access departmental Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory includes two Perkin-Elmer (PE) Spectrum One Fourier-transform infrared absorption spectrometers each with a universal diamond ATR accessory, a PE Lambda-35 UV/visible spectrometer, a PE Lambda-950 UV/visible/NIR spectrometer with a 60-mm-diameter diffuse reflectance integrating sphere, a PE model 343 polarimeter, a PE LS55B luminescence spectrometer, a PE Clarus 500 capillary-column GC with dual FID detectors, a Clarus 500 capillary-column GC/MS system (with electron impact capability), a PE Series 200 Quaternary HPLC development system with UV/visible photodiode array detector, a PE Series 200 binary HPLC system equipped with a Sciex AP150 quadrupole MS detector, a PE SEries 2000 binary gel permeation chromatography system with refractive index detector, and a Varian AA240FS flame atomic absorption spectrometer.

Other Departmental Facilities
The department maintains a computational chemistry laboratory equipped with nine Dell Optiplex 620 computers running Hyperchem v 7.5. Research laboratories for each of the department faculty members are located in Disque and STratton Halls. Instrumentation available in the research laboratories is described on individual faculty web pages. Additional full-time support includes an instrument specialist (for NMR and MS), a glassblower (Chemistry Department), two electronics specialists (College of Arts & Sciences Electronics Shop), and four machinists (Drexel University Machine Shop).