The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is housed in the award-winning Richard King Mellon Hall designed by renowned architect Miles van der Rohe. In addition to the facilities contained in individual faculty research laboratories, departmental facilities include a Bruker 400 and 500 MHz multinuclear NMR spectrometers, two ICP/MS instruments, a Varian GC/MS instrument, a Waters/Micromass LC/MS instrument, SGI Itanium-2 supercomputers, as well as numerous other spectrophotometric and chromatographic instruments. Further, collaborative arrangements with other basic and applied science departments has lead to the joint operation of such facilities as the Sony Microscopy Laboratory featuring state-of-the-art transmission and scanning electron microscopes and associated computer imaging facilities; the x-ray crystallography facility, featuring a Bruker Apex II diffractometer, two powder diffractometers and associated computing equipment. Students have access to the departmental computer facilities, fully networked IBM PC-based systems, and computer-supported library facilities.


Duquesne University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
600 Forbes Avenue, 308 Mellon Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, Tel: 412-396-6340, Fax: 412-396-5683