Hongbin (Tony) Yan

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Centre for Biotechnology

Nucleic Acids

Carbohydrates

Bioconjugates

Equipment

Departmental

  • NMR: Bruker Avance 300 and 600 Digital NMR spectrometers
  • MS: Kratos Concept 1S High Resolution E/B mass spectrometer (EI, CI, FAB, GC-MS), Bruker HCT Plus Proteineer LC-MS with electrospray, Bruker Autoflex TOF/TOF MALDI spectrometer, Perkin-Elmer Autosystem XL GC-MS,
    Perkin-Elmer Clarus 500 GC-MS, Hewlett-Packard 5890 Capillary GC with 5970 Mass Selective Detector.
  • X-Ray Crystallography: Bruker Apex II CCD X-Ray Diffractometer and Dual Processor Workstation.
    Oxford Cryostream Plus Device.
  • Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy: ThermoMattson RS-1 FTIR with reflectance and DRIFT accessories and WinFirst data system,ABB Bomem MB100 FTIR with Bomem/Galactic data system, Perkin-Elmer SpectrumOne FTIR.
  • UV-VIS Spectroscopy: ThermoSpectronic/Unicam UV-4 UV-VIS spectrometer with Vision data system and thermostatted sampling accessory,Spectronic Genesys 5 UV-VIS.
  • Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy: Bruker Elexsys E580 pulsed and CW X-band (9 GHz) spectrometer.
  • Solvent purification system.

Laboratory

  • BioTeK microplate reader and platewasher (Supported by NSERC RTI)
  • Burrell Wrist Action Shaker (Supported by Research Corporation)
  • Dionex IC3000 Ionic chromatography system (Supported by CFI and ORF)
  • Applied Biosystem 381 and 3400 DNA synthesizers (Supported by CFI and ORF)
  • Pharmacia FPLC (Supported by Research Corporation)
  • DNA concentrator (Supported by Research Corporation)