facilities

Electrochemistry is a very instrumental chemistry; so our laboratory sometimes looks like a little electronic, mechanic or glass blowing shop depending on the moment. We have classical electrochemical equipment like potentiostats and other polarizing devices, electronically piloted Rotating Disk Electrode and all kind of electrochemical cells, electrodes and home made glassware.


Since organosilicon compounds are often air- or moisture sensitive, we are equipped with a little glove box with a home designed regenerating circuit and a valve purge system operating without the vacuum pump but providing similar quality of inert atmosphere. Lithium stays shiny for weeks in there!
Diode array Schimadzu Multispec 1500 UV-Vis fast spectrometer is indeed a modulable multitask apparatus in our laboratory because besides its direct purpose it is also used for temperature-dependent UV-Vis spec-troelectrochemistry and for HPLC needs as well, both analytical and large-scale.
	Another apparatus crucial for the work in organic electro-chemistry, is Schimadzu 5000 GC-MS spectrometer, here we present our thanks to Rennes Metropole and Schimadzu who made possible its acquisition. I wander when this picture was taken because our GC-MS is usually always running and is never off.

			Most of specific electro chemical glassware and not only, - the cells for HPLC, UV-Vis and ESR spectroelectro-chemistry, Arbuzov flasks and other custom made pieces are made in the laboratory with the help of this very electrochemical tool - gas burmer.