Facilities

      The Department of Chemistry occupies one third of a thirteen story Science Building at the center of the City College campus. The buiiding is fully air-conditioned and is about 25 years old. The Department houses a large number of teaching and research faboratories. instrument rooms, cold and animal rooms, as well as electronics, glass-working and machine shops.

      The Chemistry Department has state of the art research equipment. Among the major instruments are 2 NMRs (200 and 300 MHz), a quadrupole mass spectrometer, two other mass spectrometers devoted exclusively to cluster beam work, ESR, two molecular beam epitaxy chambers, X-ray diffraction apparatus for surface characterization, thermal analysis instrumentation, a variety of high speed and CW lasers, an animaLroom, a variety of spectrophotometers, a Decalpha computer with two processors, various workstations, gas and liquid chromatographs, densitometer, scintillation counters, centrifuges, ultracentrifuges, and a variety of other apparatus devoted to research. Computing facilities are available for calculations. In addition to federal funding, the Department benefits from the state Graduate Research Initiative (GRI), which provides some large-apparatus every year. as well as from other state programs which add to the department's instrumentation.

      A modern science library is located in the Science Building. It has access to one of the most extensive collections of chemistry periodicals in New York. Unfortunately, the escalating cost of scientific journals combined with successive budget cuts, have forced the cancellation of many essential subscriptions. The situation is partly reversed by the availability of online subscriptions.