Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy Facilities
Location and Equipment Available
Faculty, students, and staff of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy are located in two adjoining facilities - L.M. Parks Hall and the V. Riffe Building. The College of Pharmacy is located in a five-story building, Parks Hall, in the Life Sciences complex of The Ohio State University. The third and fourth floors of Parks Hall house laboratories for research in medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy. The fifth floor houses the pharmacology division and animal facilities. The second floor houses the pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry division and the main administrative offices of the College. Research laboratories are arranged so that each person has approximately 140 square feet of space, including a desk and 15 linear feet of bench space.
The Riffe Building connects Parks Hall with the Biosciences Building. The Riffe Building contains six research floors (3 floors for each of the 2 colleges), a major instrumentation facility, and the Biological Sciences/Pharmacy Library. Our Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy occupies the sixth floor in this new building. The combined library has a seating capacity of 250 and holds over 145,000 volumes. Computerized literature searches are available at the BPL Library. These searches can be run on a variety of databases, including CD-ROM databases, Chemical Abstracts Service's CAS On-Line and National Library of Medicine's Medline.
Chemical Research Equipment
In addition to the usual equipment and supplies associated with active chemical research programs, we have a Jasco J-500A spectropolarimeter, a Perkin-Elmer polarimeter, UV-vis spectrophotometers and Nicolet Protege 460 FTIR, IBM AC-250 Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers for routine proton/carbon measurements, and a multinuclear Bruker DPX 250 NMR. New in the division is a Bruker DRX 400 MHz multinuclear NMR with advanced capabilities. Biochemical instrumentation include liquid scintillation counters, gamma counters, radioanalytical equipment, ultracentrifuges, cell culture facilities, and molecular biology/PCR instruments.
The College also houses networked computer systems, minicomputers, two Silicon Graphics workstations, numerous personal computers, and printers and graphics devices. All of the equipment is located in Parks Hall and the Riffe Building, and is available for routine use by students and faculty.
Faculty and students in our Division also have access to all of the equipment in the Campus Chemical Instrumentation Center, (CCIC), including 300, 500, 600, and 800 MHz NMR's and high resolution mass spectrometers located in Johnston Hall and the Riffe Building on campus.
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