Chemistry 311: Instrumental Analysis

Text: Skoog, Holler and Nieman , "Principles of Instrumental Analysis - 5th ed." (required)

Mark distribution
Midterm: 25%  
On-line Quizzes: 5%   
Final: 40%  
Lab: 30% 

Topic (Chpt in Skoog 5th ed)        Week
Introduction 1
Properties of Light (6)   1
Intro to spectrometry (6,7)    2
Wavelength selectors (7)    2
Molecular Spectroscopy (13-16, 18) 3 & 4
Atomic Spectroscopy (7-10) 5 & 6
Review & Midterm exam 7
Mass Spectrometry (11,20) 8 & 9
Electrochemistry  (22, 25)  10
Review of Intro Chromatography (26)    10
GC (27) LC, HPLC (28), SFC&E (29) 11 & 12    
Capillary electrophoresis (30) 13

Laboratory:
Students complete 11 experiments in an alternating schedule.  The labs cover many of the techniques described in lecture and are focussed on separation/chromatography(HPLC, GC, GC/MS), spectroscopy (UV/Vis, fluorescence, AA, AE) and electroanalytical (ASV)


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