The Leigh Group Labs - and the rest of the Organic Chemistry Research Labs at Edinburgh - have recently been refurbished following a £4.5M grant awarded through the SRIF scientific infrastructure scheme.  The plan of the Leigh Group lab area is shown below.  You can get an idea of scale from the size of the 2m fumehoods (the rectangular blocks with small circles in them!).

Lab 29, and the surrounding area, is a custom-designed facility for advanced organic synthesis in the 21st century.  It consists of 24 x 2m fumehoods (i.e. space for 24 researchers, each with their own fumehood) in the main lab, two adjacent instrument rooms containing an additional 4 x 2m fumehoods (with lowered floors for HPLC's, photochemical reactor, stills etc), three x 8 person offices (with dedicated deskspace and PC's - with full internet, database and electronic journal access - for each researcher) and a molecular modeling & presentation suite .

The University of Edinburgh has outstanding facilities to support organic chemistry, including NMR spectroscopy at 800, 600, 500, 400, 360, 250 and 200 MHz (the Leigh group has a 400 MHz instrument with on-line access to the lab and office); state-of-the-art mass spectrometry (including FT-ICR) and X-ray crystallography; and a new dedicated suite for combinatorial and solid-phase synthesis and substrate isolation and characterisation.

Leigh Group Labs

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