The Department of Chemical Sciences is a cutting-edge facility, capable of outsourcing its activities by operating on the market in the clinical, food, and environmental fields.

The Department is present in the territory and has been carrying out third-party design and consultancy activities for more than a decade, capable of providing rapid operational solutions and specific responses to analytical, verification, and control needs.

The Department has research and analysis laboratories equipped with modern instruments and a fleet of machines for instrumental analysis, with modern equipment capable of solving both analytical problems and the development of new protocols, products, or procedures to better respond to the various needs coming from the territory.

A brochure of the activities can be downloaded here.

The Department of Chemical Sciences is located in via Cinthia 8, in the University Complex of Monte S. Angelo, reachable by car via the Naples Ring Road (EXIT Fuorigrotta).

For contacts and information requests:

Angela AMORESANO angela.amoresano@unina.it; phone +39 081674114; room 2Mb-13

Marco TRIFUOGGI marco.trifuoggi@unina.it; phone +39 081674388; room 2MC-32

The following instruments for third-party analysis are available at the Department of Chemical Sciences:

• Microwave digestion units
• Ion chromatographs
• HPLC chromatographs
• MALDI TOF-TOF 4800 Plus
• LC-ESITOF
• Q-TOF Premiere nanoUPLC-MS/MS
• 4000Q-Trap nanoLC-MS/MS
• CHIP-MS LC-MS/MS Q-TOF
• CHIP-MS LC-MS/MS Ion Trap
• ABI Procise protein sequencer
• Quattro Micro LC-MS
• nanoLC-MS/MS OrbiTrap
• nano LC-MSMS iKey QQQ
• ZQ 2000 LC-MS
• VOYAGER MALDI DE STR
• VOYAGER MALDI DE LINEAR
• 6 HP MSD GC-MS
• 2GCMSMS
• ICPMS
• ICP optical
• LCMSMS QQQ

At the Department of Chemical Sciences it is possible to perform:

• Clinical analyses.
• Water and soil analyses.
• Agri-food analyses.
• Environmental analyses
• Special analyses

The department staff supports companies in drafting technical opinions, scientific reports, technical-scientific consultancy, to comply with community legislation (EU Reg. 852/04 and EU Reg. 178/02) and national legislation (Legislative Decree 31/01 and Legislative Decree 152/2006). Specific agreements to be agreed upon from time to time may be stipulated for the costs of the different analyses. Cost reductions will be defined for multiple analyses or for large numbers of samples. In the case of particularly complex analyses, specific consultancy will be provided to define the most suitable strategies for solving the problems. In these cases, appropriate estimates will be prepared according to specific needs.

In particular, it is possible to perform:

• Chemical and microbiological analyses of drinking and thermal water as well as those intended for irrigation in agriculture and industrial use;
• Analysis of solid and liquid environmental matrices, air according to Legislative Decree 152 2006
• chemical analyses of foods and related processed products;
• analysis and characterisation of thermal mud;
• research and quantification of:

• Aldehydes
• Anions
• Cations
• COD
• Dioxins
• Volatile organic compounds (VOC)
• Pest control products
• Phenols
• Phthalates
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
• Aromatic hydrocarbons
• Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic halogenated hydrocarbons
• Hydrocarbons ≥12
• Hydrocarbons ≤ 12
• Metals
• Pesticides
• pH
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
• Solvents

• Drug dosage
• Toxicological analysis of hair
• Fur manufacturing control (Fingerprint tryptic peptide Hair keratins)
• Hormone dosage
• Prostaglandin dosage
• Oxylipins dosage
• Leukotrienes dosage
• Arachidonic acid dosage
• Aromatic amine dosage
• Vitamin dosage
• Identification of whey proteins from different species in milk and dairy products
• Hair mineralogram
• Modifications of whey proteins for industrial treatments
• Typing of oils (Fingerprint of volatile and non-volatile compounds)
• Analysis of fatty acids
• Analysis of oligosaccharides
• Analysis of artistic artefacts (waxes, pigments, resins, gums, oils, metals, protein binders)
• Typing of wines (Fingerprint of non-volatile compounds)
• Typing of grappa and alcoholic beverages (Fingerprint of non-volatile compounds)