The Hartley Group's lab space is located on the third floor of Hughes Hall. We have a synthetic lab which houses two 6' and two 3' fumehoods, eight individual benches, a common bench areas for communal equipment, and the group's desk area. We also have a directly adjoining instrument room, which is connected to Scott's office.

The lab soon after renovations were finished. The area at the front is the student/postdoc office area.

For our synthetic work, we have the usual equipment including inert gas lines, Schlenk lines, rotovaps (2), a sonicator, etc.

A typical bench in the synthetic lab.

Our group also has a range of equipment for characterization of our materials including a UV/vis spectrometer, fluorometer, differential scanning calorimeter, polarized optical microscope, and a semi-preparative scale gel permeation chromatography system. We also have group licenses for the ACD NMR Manager and Spartan '08 software packages.

The differential scanning calorimeter (right) and polarized optical microscope (left) in the instrument room.

The UV/vis (left) and fluorescence (right) spectrometers.

Communal equipment at Miami University that we use on a regular basis includes the NMR spectrometers (300 and 500 MHz), MALDI mass spectrometers (2 brand new instruments), electrochemical equipment, etc. We have also begun making use of Gaussian 03, which is installed on Miami's Redhawk Cluster.