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Lennard-Jones Laboratories
Current Facilities Opening in 2019
The Lennard-Jones Laboratories are centrally located on the
campus and within easy walking distance of all the facilities
provided. Many students choose to spend most of their day in
Lennard-Jones, making use of the computer classroom and
other rooms available for student study. As part of a £37M investment into science teaching, the Central
Teaching Laboratories are currently being constructed which
are integrated into the Lennard-Jones Laboratories. These will
further enhance our chemistry laboratory facilities creating a
new synthetic laboratory containing 35 fumehoods, and a large
teaching laboratory for 70 students. As part of this programme
a repurposing of the Lennard-Jones facilities is also being
undertaken to further enhance our research facilities.
We have excellent teaching laboratories with synthetic and
analytical space, all of which have been built or refurbished in
recent years. Year 1 and 2 Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
laboratory classes are held in our multi-user teaching laboratory
complete with state-of-the-art analytical instruments for student
use. You will use a variety of analytical instruments including
UV-Visible, Infrared and NMR spectroscopy during Years 1 and
2. You also have access to X-ray diffraction, and various mass
spectrometers and chromatography instruments in Year 2 as
part of the Spectroscopy and Analysis module.
In 2016 the Year 3 research projects laboratory was refurbished,
additional fume-cupboards added and the laboratory
re-equipped. Students use instrumentation throughout the
building in both the teaching and research laboratories, including
the catalysis rigs, microwave reactors, high resolution mass
spectrometers and Raman microscopes..
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External Examiner’s quote
My overall comment regarding the quality
of teaching and learning on the modules I
looked at is that they are both excellent. There
was much evidence of excellent teaching
and some specific comments appear below.
Most of the modules had student feedback
information and this was on the whole at a
very high standard”.
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