Chemistry Department

Short description:

​Environmental, biological and toxicological analyzes can be carried out within the Chemistry Department. Inorganic compounds from environmental and biological samples, volatile organic compounds from plants and non-volatile from environmental or biological samples can be determined using the equipment available in the department.

​Main activities / techniques:

• ​sample collection: environmental samples – soil, water, coal, plants; biological samples: blood, serum, urine, tissues, cells
• sample processing: liquid-liquid extraction; extraction in solid phase on columns; derivation; agitation; centrifugation; evaporation using rotary evaporator at temperature or with inert gas, such as nitrogen; dilution
• sample analysis: qualitative and quantitative analysis of samples by analytical methods, such as thin layer chromatography (TLC), liquids chromatography (HPLC), Gas (GC), Atomic Absorption (AAS)

Staff:

• ​Coordinator: Calin Tatu, MD, PhD
• Alexandra T. Gruia, Dr. Chief Scientist Researcher

Equipment:

• ​HP6890 Gas Chromatograph coupled with Hewlett Packard 5973 Mass Spectrometry Detector
• Gas Chromatograph with Agilent 6890N Flame Ionization Detector
• Gas Chromatograph Scion 436-GC Bruker
• High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Agilent 1100 UV / VIS Detection Unit
• UHPLC Dionex Ultimate 3000 Thermo Scientific with Bruker Mass Spectrometry
• Spectrometer of Atomic Absorption against 700 Analytik Jena
• Spectrofluorimeter for Bio-Tek FL600 plates
• Perkin Elmer Lambda EZ201 UV-VIS Spectrophotometer