The Chemistry Department is located in the Merkert Chemistry Center, a 109,000 square foot structure designed to empower the dynamic, cutting-edge research for which the department is internationally recognized. The Merkert Chemistry Center contains faculty research laboratories in organic chemistry, chemical biology, and physical chemistry; specialized research facilities and shared instrumentation; and classrooms and teaching laboratories. Chemistry faculty members have collaborated on the unique design of their own research laboratories, which are built to accommodate state-of-the-art instrumentation and adapt to new research directions. The Merkert Chemistry Center was built in 1991 through the generosity of Mr. Eugene F. Merkert, a successful Boston businessman.

Among the superb research resources that the Merkert Chemistry Center provides to our faculty and students are three specialized research facilities, each with its own shared, state-of-the-art instrumentation and professional scientific director.

Mass Spectrometry Center: a full service facility, providing high resolution mass spectral data from electrospray, APCI, APPI, MALDI-TOF, and DART

NMR Center: a high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer facility featuring 300 MHz, 400 MHz , and 500 MHz NMR spectrometers and related computer facilities

X-ray Crystallography Center: fully equipped with several diffractometers, including an area detector instrument, constant temperature rooms for crystal growth, and several VAX and Silicon Graphics computers for investigation of protein and small molecule structure