Instrumental Analysis

Catalog description

This is an applied chemistry course designed to provide an in-depth review of general instrumental methods of chemical analysis including atomic and molecular spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, gas and liquid chromatographic methods, gas and liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and several hyphenated techniques. This course is designed to provide students with the theoretical background and principles of operation of modern analytical instrumentation and hands-on experience. This is therefore designed to have a lecture and a laboratory component. The lecture component will emphasize the chemical and physical principles behind the instrumentation, the property measured, how the instrument measures that property and ways to increase accuracy, precision and sensitivity. The laboratory component allows students to put these principles learnt in class into practice. The goal is to offer students a broader working knowledge of instruments. Theoretical and practical knowledge of the use these instruments include knowing the appropriate control experiments to conduct. Laboratory fee applicable.