Facilities and Instrumentation Available 

Office and Space
  • Dr. Chouinard’s office is located on the third floor of Hunter Laboratories (377).
  • The laboratory occupies Hunter 101, 105, 105A, and 425.
  • The Department of Chemistry is housed in the Howard L. Hunter Chemistry Laboratory, which includes over 50,000 square feet of laboratory space for research and teaching. This building accommodates >100 graduate students, postdoctoral scientists and visiting scientists.

Mailing address
  • Dr. Christopher D. Chouinard, 211 S. Palmetto Blvd, Hunter Rm. 377, Clemson, SC 29634, (864) 656-3065
Major Instrumentation
1. Agilent 6560 IM-QTOF with 1290 UHPLC
2. (Coming Soon!) MOBILion MOBIE SLIM HRIM with Agilent 6546 QTOF and 1290 UHPLC/SFC
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Agilent 6560 Ion Mobility QTOF LC-MS

The Agilent 6560 is a drift tube ion mobility (DTIM)-enabled QTOF system that allows simultaneous measurement of ion mobility/collision cross section (CCS), high resolution accurate mass, and tandem mass spectrometry. The DTIM separates ions based on differences in size, shape, and charge and is primarily used in our lab to rapidly (<60 milliseconds) separate structurally similar compounds including stereoisomers. It performs with resolving power of 50-60 to separate species with collision cross section (CCS) differences of >2%. The instrument is also coupled to an Agilent 1290 Infinity II ultrahigh performance liquid chromatograph (UHPLC) to allow for online LC separations (i.e., LC-IM-MS/MS). The instrument has been upgraded to allow for IM measurements to be made in a wide range of buffer gases (e.g., helium, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, etc.) and also to perform multiplexed data acquisition. The latter can be used in combination with Agilent’s high-resolution demultiplexing (HRdm 2.0) software to provide post-processed resolving powers of >200.

Shared Instrumentation
Our lab has access to a wide variety of shared instrumentation and facilities to complete our projects. This includes electron and optical microscopy, mass spectrometry, LC-MS, Raman spectrometry, NMR, MALDI, EPR, X-Ray Crystallography, etc…