The Bates Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is located in the Bonney Science Center.  This facility houses faculty offices, teaching and research labs, stockroom, and classrooms where most chemistry courses are taught.

Buildings

Bonney Science Center

The latest new construction on Bates campus, the Bonney Science Center offers state-of-the-art lab spaces, equipment, and enhanced technology classrooms. Several faculty offices from the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Biology Department, and the Program in Neuroscience are housed within Bonney.

Dana Hall

Having been recently renovated, Dana Hall was re-opened in August of 2022. Following the Bonney Science Center, Dana is equipped with new classrooms, lab spaces, and student write-up spaces to encourage collaboration.

Spectrometers

• Bruker Ascend 400 MHz NMR spectrometer with BBO probe – 2021
• Jasco P-2000 polarimeter – 2008
• Perkin-Elmer LS-55 fluorescence spectrometer – 2006
• Thermo iCAP 6300 inductively coupled plasma – 2010 (located in Carnegie Science)
• Thermo Nicolet Nexus 670 FT-IR spectrometer with diffuse reflectance accessory – 2002
• Thermo iS5 FT-IR spectrometer with iD3 ATR – 2013
• Thermo Evolution 260 Bio UV-Vis spectrophotometer with PCCU1 peltier control unit – 2014
• Beckman-Coulter DU-800 UV-Vis spectrophotometer(3) with Isotemp 3006 temperature controller – 2004
• Beckman-Coulter DU-800 UV-Vis spectrophotometer with Beckman temperature controller – 2004
• Beckman DU-64 UV/Vis spectrophotometer – 1989
• Beckman DU-640B UV-Vis spectrophotometer with isotemp 1013P temperature controller – 1996

Chromatographs

• Hewlett-Packard 6890 Series gas chromatograph system, HP 5973 mass selective detector, autosampler accessory – 2002
• Hewlett-Packard 6890 Series gas chromatograph system, HP 5973 mass selective detector, Gerstel TDS thermo desorption system – 1999
• Waters 1525 binary HPLC pump with 2998 photodiode array detector – 2012
• Waters 1525 binary HPLC pump with 2489 UV/Vis detector – 2014
• Dionex LC20 ion chromatograph, CD20 conductivity detector, GP50 gradient pump – 1999
• Hewlett-Packard 3D capillary electrophoresis system – 1998

 Other

• Rigaku X-Ray Diffractometer
• Fujifilm Fluoro Image Analyzer FLA-5000 – 2003
• Spectra Physics Quanta-Ray Pulsed Nd:YAG laser – 1992
• Spectra Physics Quanta-Ray PDL-3 pulsed dye laser – 1992
• Market Forge Sterilmatic STMEL Autoclave – 2004
• New Brunswick Scientific Co. reciprocal water bath shaker model R76(2) – 1989, 1993
• Princeton Applied Research Model 263A-1 Potentiostat/Galvanostat – 2002
• Beckman TL-100 ultracentrifuge – 1989
• Beckman Optima LE-80K ultracentrifuge – 2002
• Sorvall RC5C Plus superspeed refrigerated centrifuge – 2005
• New Brunswick Scientific floor C25 incubator shaker – 1999
• New Brunswick Scientific floor C25KC incubator shaker – 2001
• Johnson Matthey magnetic susceptibility balance – 1996
• Parr 1451 solution calorimeter – 1985
• Hi-tech SFA-11 stopped-flow apparatus – 1985
• Isco supercritical fluid extraction apparatus, model 260D syringe pump – 1990
• General instrumentation and equipment for analytical, organic, physical and biochemical laboratories, including several UV/Vis spectrophotometers, gas chromatographs, vacuum systems, photochemical equipment, constant temperature baths, -80 freezers, standard taper glassware, hydrogenation equipment, electrophoresis equipment, pH meters, etc.