Equipment available
The Laboratory of Catalysis is fully equipped for carrying out experiments under strictly controlled atmosphere (argon, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ethylene, hydrogen). Glove boxes, Schlenk glassware, and vacuum/gas manifolds are used for working at atmospheric pressure. A wide range of glass and steel autoclaves are also available to perform reactions under medium or high pressure. Microwave-assisted syntheses can be run using a monomodal microwave reactor equipped with a simultaneous cooling device. Quartz reactors are available for photochemical irradiation.
For separation and analyses, the laboratory owns and maintains four GC instruments equipped with a variety of chromatographic columns.
Shared facilities
The Laboratory of Catalysis has direct access to major instrumentation available within the MolSys Research Unit or in other fellow laboratories at the University of Liège. Shared facilities include:
- mass spectrometers (ESI-MS, GC-MS, MALDI-TOF, etc) provided by the Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry,
- multinuclear NMR spectrometers (400 MHz, 500 MHz, 700 MHz) provided by the Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (CREMAN),
- physico-chemical polymer analysis equipment (GPC, DSC, TGA, etc) provided by the Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM),
- continuous-flow reactors with in-line, real-time IR analysis module provided by the Center for Integrated Technology and Organic Synthesis (CITOS).