Our research takes place in the Compound Discovery Lab of U of Winnipeg Science Complex.

The lab is fully equipped for chemical synthesis, including highly air- and moisture-sensitive materials:

• Four six foot wide fumehoods, including two mercury-free high vacuum/argon double manifolds



• Single-station Vacuum Atmospheres argon atmosphere glovebox



• Five-port solvent purification system (dichloromethane, THF, diethyl ether, hexanes, toluene)



• Other equipment including a rotary evaporator, and an oxygen-propane torch for glassworking
• Subscription to the Cambridge Structural Database

The Chemistry department also has characterization facilities located in the Science Complex:

• 400 MHz Bruker Avance III NMR spectrometer



• GC-MS instruments



• Other equipment includes FT-IR and UV-visible spectrometers, and melting point apparatuses

We access computational resources using the Westgrid system (a regional partner of Compute Canada). The Department also has an in-house Dell Precision workstation:

• Dual Xeon CPUs with 24 total cores, 2 GB CUDA-enabled GPU, 32 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD
• Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Operating System
• GAMESS software for electronic structure calculations
• WebMO system for preparing input files and running remotely-submitted jobs
• Visualization and molecule builder software including WebMO, Jmol, Avogadro, and wxMacMolPlt

We have agreements to make use of external structural characterization facilities:

• Bruker D8 Quest ECO Diffractometer with molybdenum source and CMOS detector (access thanks to Dr. David Herbert at the University of Manitoba)