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Lab resources

The Hii Research group is well-equipped with a number of reaction platforms to support data-led batch and flow chemistry. Here are some of the equipment and instruments available in our group.

Parallel batch reactors

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Argonaut Quest 201

For up to 20 liquid or solid-phase supported organic reactions. Incorporates heating, cooling, agitation and inert atmospheres. 

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Radley's parallel synthesisers

Foe reaction screening/substrate scope studies. Carousels for conducting up to 12-reactions in parallel. A GreenHouse Plus parallel synthesiser provides up to 24 heated reactions under inert atmosphere.

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ReactArray

10-position reaction station with 10-30 mL working volume, 400-2000 RPM stirring and heating. A larger 6-place parallel reaction station (reaction volumes up to 250 mL) is also available.

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Biotage Endeavor Pressure Reactor

8-position reaction station for high temperature and pressure work. Each reaction vessel can be set up with individual temperature and pressure setting.

Flow reactors

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Piston (HPLC) pumps

Gilson and Jasco units.

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Syringe pumps

Harvard programmable syringe pumps, and Chemyx pumps for high pressure work (up to 500 psi).

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ThalesNano X-Cube reactor

For performing catalytic reactions in packed beds.

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fReactor

5-position CSTR, peek and PTFE options.

Analytical instruments

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Gas Chromatogrphy 

Agilent 8860 GC with dual channel S/SL FID, autosampler, and H2 generator. OpenLab software.

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High Performance Liquid Chromatography (x3)

Agilent 1100 HPLC systems equipped with DAD and Chemstation for normal and reverse-phase HPLC, including chiral separations. 

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Ocean optics UV-vis spectrometer

UV-vis with deuterium light source for UV reflectance and in-line analytical work.

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Opentron OT-2 robot

Pipetting robot for preparing reaction and sample plates.

Some other useful tools to make our lives easier...

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Teledyne Combiflash Rf200

Automated flash chromatography.

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Teledyne Combiflash

A newer version of the Combiflash. 

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Smart Evaporator

For drying sample tubes and vials, better than rotavaps for DMF, DMSO and water...

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Fraction collectors

A number of different units, to collect up to 174 samples.

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