• Calorimeters, including differential and isothermal microcalorimeters, as well as thermal gravimetric analyzers (TGA), are used to determine the heat generated or absorbed during chemical processes.
  
  
• Chromatographs, including high performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC) and gas chromatographs (GC), are used to separate, purify and help to identify molecules.
  
  
• Computers, such as PC's, Mac's, SGI's and Beowulf Supercomputers, are used for a variety of purposes, including data analysis, preparation of journal articles, reports and oral seminars, as well as for sophisticated molecular modeling.
  
  
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers (NMR) and Mass Spectrometers (MS) may be used separately, or in combination to identify molecules, and to determine their structure.
  
  
• Spectrophotometers are often used to determine the amount of a substance present in solution, or in a solid sample, by measurement of the absorption and fluorescence spectra of molecules in the ultraviolet, visible and/or infrared regions of the spectrum.

Instruments are located in individual research laboratories, as well as in several instrument rooms located both in Griffith Hall (see above) and the McNeill Research Center.