Major equipment in the Chemistry Department is housed in the state-of-the-art Shared Instrumentation Facility. The department, through recent grants from the National Science Foundation, has invested significant funds to fully upgrade the research equipment and facilities. Students and researchers in the department have walk-up access to Bruker Avance 400 and 500 MHz NMR spectrometers, a Varian 300 MHz NMR spectrometer, a Bruker Avance 400 MHz solid-state NMR spectrometer, a circular dichroism spectropolarimeter with stopped flow and fluorescence accessories, MALDI-TOF, electrospray, and gas chromatography mass spectrometers, phosphorimager, FT-IR, fluorimeter, UV-vis spectrophotometer, and polarimeter. Instruments located elsewhere in the department include peptide and DNA synthesizers, photoacoustic and photothermal beam deflection spectrometers, microcalorimeters, and atomic force microscope, among others. The Laser Research Laboratory includes several advanced spectrometers capable of probing chemical reactions and physical processes on time scales from femtoseconds to seconds, at wavelengths from the UV to the IR. Absorbance, fluorescence, and Raman detection are available.

The NYU Protein Analysis Facility provides additional high-level mass spectrometry, HPLC, and protein analysis services. New York University is a member institution of the New York Structural Biology Center. This center will offer very high field NMR instrumentation to its member institutions.

Extensive computational facilities are available in research groups, the Chemistry Department, the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and NYU's Information Technology Services. These include many types of clustered and standalone computers, graphics workstations, and other resources. The department is connected to NYU-NET and the internet by means of a high-speed fiber optic connection allowing rapid transfer of large files. NYU is also a participant in the Internet-2 project.

Members of the NYU Chemistry Department have access to an impressive collection of reference materials, journals, and monographs in the Bobst Library Coles Science Center, located only one block from the Chemistry Department. The open stack collection comprises approximately 10,000 books on the subject of chemistry and 200 current chemistry journal subscriptions. Every year new subscriptions are added as appropriate, and the chemistry book collection grows by over 400 volumes annually. The collection also includes thousands of related journals and monographs in the biological and physical sciences, geology, technology, medicine and the allied health sciences. The entire collection, including complete runs of journals dating from the 19th century, is conveniently located on one floor. Reference staff are generally available to assist readers. Remote users may also access an impressive array of electronic services from their desktops.

Most of the science periodicals are available on the WWW. Among the many science information resources available, department members have access to SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts), CrossFire (Beilstein/Gmelin), Web of Science (Science Citation Index), Current Contents Online and CARL Uncover (two current awareness/table of contents alerting services), online Interlibrary Loan, and a priority document delivery service. These resources, and others, are listed on the NYU Bobst Information Resources in Chemistry WWW page. Department members have access to the collections at the NYU Medical Library and the NYU-Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and are welcome to on-site use of two of the largest research collections in the world: the New York Public Library and Columbia University, which are only a few minutes away by subway train. The libraries of the New York Academy of Medicine, Rockefeller University, Cornell University Medical Center, as well as the NY Botanical Garden and the American Museum of Natural History are equally available to scholars.