Virtual Laboratory Tour

The above is a clickable image map. Click your mouse on the area of the lab you wish to look at. A good place to start is the main entrance in the top-left. Click on the A421 room number in the image above. Click here to see a live picture of the laboratory.

The Indiana University Molecular Structure Center (IUMSC) occupies a 4000 sq. ft. laboratory on the fourth floor of the Chemistry Building. Visitors to the facility enter through A421, located in the southwest corner of the floor. Immediately behind the hallway is the computing area and the conference area. This room is designed so that researchers can have ready access to the facility during the day. The computers available are used to access the crystallographic databases maintained by the IUMSC, as well as the specialized crystallographic software.

Room A421A contains the IUMSC web server and the Beowulf molecular rendering system. A421C is the office for the IUMSC Computer Informatics Scientist (Dr. John Bollinger). The X-ray laboratory, A423, is visible through windows in the north wall of the open computing room. Access to A423 is restricted to minimize the risks associated with the x-ray generating equipment and cryogenic fluids in use.

The central part of A423 houses microscopes and crystal mounting equipment, as well as the control computers for the various diffractometer systems located in the instrument bays. Four equipment bays are located on the west and north sides of the X-ray laboratory. These bays house the single-crystal and powder goniostats used in the laboratory.

Rooms A423B and A423A are the offices for the Director and the other professional staff of the IUSMC. These rooms, as well as the instrument bays, have large windows so that the staff can easily monitor any students working in the facility.

A development laboratory, A423G, contains experimental systems that are under construction as well as repair and calibration facilities for the laboratory. Precession, Weissenburg and powder diffraction cameras are available in the development laboratory. A well equipped darkroom is available (A423H) adjacent to the development laboratory. A mechanical equipment room (A423J) contains the chill water system for the laboratory, as well as two Philips liquid nitrogen generators which supply both the gaseous and liquid nitrogen for the laboratory.

Visiting the IUMSC

Laboratory Chemistry Building A421
Phone: (812) 855-6604
FAX: (812) 855-8300 or (812) 855-9433
ftp server: ftp.chem.indiana.edu

Mailing Address

Indiana University Molecular Structure Center
Chemistry Building A421
800 East Kirkwood Ave.
Indiana University
Bloomington IN 47405-7102

IU, Bloomington
Dept. of Chemistry
Chemistry Library