Department  of  Chemistry  and  Biochemistry:
Tour of the Buildings and Facilities
 
(by Yves Rubin)

 

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The department is located over several buildings:  Young Hall, the Molecular Sciences Building, and the associated Molecular Biology Institute (MBI).  The Rubin Group Labs are located in the Molecular Sciences Building shown below.  The facilities in the Department are among the best that can be found in the world.  For a convenient stay on campus, the UCLA Guest House offers great accomodations at a fair price.

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  • Molecular Sciences Building:

    • Front of the Molecular Sciences Building, where the Inorganic and Organic Divisions are housed.

    The faculty offices are located at the front, the laboratories behind the pink facade towards Young Hall

    View of the nearby Westwood Village from the roof of the Molecular Sciences Building

    Staircase of the Molecular Sciences Building (up and down).
    Don't ask me why, but these are fascinating to me,
    perhaps giving one the sense of challenge and achievement ?




  • Young Hall:

    • The Court of Sciences with Young Hall (brick building) and MBI (concrete)

  • Molecular Biology Institute:


    The Molecular Biology Institute


     

  • The Rubin Group Laboratories (3 labs similar to this one are currently occupied):

    • View of the bench side, with the student office in the back

    View of the fume hoods

    Safety is of primary concern to the department, here solvent stills
    are segregated in a fireproof room in every research group

    There is a room available to every group for analytical instrumentation

  • Facilities in the Molecular Sciences Building (see also description):

    • The well-equipped NMR facilities house  500, 400, and 360 MHz Bruker instruments,
    and soon will have two more instruments (500 and 400 MHz) to be purchased later this year.

    The UCLA-DOE Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Core Facility,
    housed next door,  also has several NMR instruments up to 600 MHz.

    500 MHz NMR instrument and console.  Graduate students and posdocs have the
    great opportunity to use these instruments after proper instruction and can run
    complex experiments on their own 24 hours a day.  Undergraduate students can
    also use these instruments in the context of an individual research project (Chem 199
    or Summer Fellowships), or otherwise a routine 200 MHz instrument with sample
    changer for upper division labs.  A very nice and useful interactive spectral problem set,
    called WebSpectra, is also available for teaching (Prof. Craig Merlic, project creator).

    Partial view of the X-ray facility showing the newly acquired Bruker AXS CCD-Array X-ray system

    The Bruker AXS CCD-Array X-ray system

    UCLA Mass spectrometry facility

  • Where to stay:

    UCLA Guest House, conveniently located on campus and 10 minutes from our department on foot


    These pictures were taken with a FujiFilm MX-2700  digital camera

       to Yves Rubin: rubin@chem.ucla.edu for comments.  This page constructed on 7/12/99.