INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS
Lecture: 03-325-1 - 3 credit hours

Lab: 03-326-1 - 2 credit hours

 

I. INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS

SPRING:  2005
PREREQUISITE:
LECTURE HOURS: M 6:30-9:00 PM

LAB HOURS: F 1:00-5:00 PM  

 

II. INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Salim M. Diab

OFFICE: Room 215, St. Albert
PHONE: 740-3855 (Ext. 855)
OFFICE HOURS: MWF 9:00 - 10:00 AM

HOME PHONE: 730-8302
email: sdiab@stfrancis.edu
Homepage: http://www.stfrancis.edu/ns/diab/etherman.htm

 

III. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to give the students a broad experience in the theory of instrumentations. The labs will be investigative in nature where students are required to use the Chemical literature (library journals, internet, etc) to explore practical ways of using instruments to solve chemical problems qualitatively and quantitatively. The students will survey the theory and application of a number of  instruments such as: Visible, Ultra Violet, Infrared, Fluorescence, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Atomic Absorption, Chromatography, and Mass Spectrometry.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. understand and appreciate the role of instruments in solving problems in the physical, chemical and biological world.
2. understand the theoretical concepts behind each instrument.
3. operate, manipulate, and generate data for each instrument.
4. appreciate the connectivity between math, physics, chemistry, and biology in this course.
5. solve chemical problems quantitatively and qualitatively by making appropriate choices among the various instruments.
6. appreciate the complexity of each instrument, its strength, and its limitation.
7. explore the use of the Internet as an educational source in instrumentation.

 

IV. REQUIRED TEXTS/ MATERIALS:

1. Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 5th edition, Skoog, Holler, and Nieman, Saunders, 1998.
2. Lecture notes and lab manual to accompany above text, S. Diab, editor.
3. Course Supplement: http://www.stfrancis.edu/ns/diab/Insanalysis.htm


ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:

1. Instrumental Methods of Analysis, 5th edition, Willard, Merritt, and Dean.
2. Introduction to Chromatography, Bobbitt, Schwarting, and Gritter.
3. Absorption of Light and Ultraviolet Radiation: Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Emission, Shenk.
4. Spectroscopic Methods in Organic Chemistry, 3rd edition, Williams and Fleming.
5. High Resolution NMR, Becker.
6. Spectroscopic Techniques for Organic Chemistry, Cooper.
7. NMR of Chemically Exchanging Systems, Kaplan and Fraenkel.
8. Applied Headspace Gas Chromatography, Kolb.
9. Analytical Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, Van Loom.
10. High Performance Mass Spectroscopy, Gross.
11. Applications of Absorption Spectroscopy of Organic ompounds, yer.
12. Infrared Spectroscopy, 2nd edition, Conley.
13. Introductory Mass Spectrometry, Shrader.
14. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Paudler.
15. Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds, 4th edition, Silverstein, Bassler and Morrill.
16. More Spectroscopic Problems in Organic Chemistry, 2nd edition, Baker, Cairns, Eglinton and Preston.
17. Organic Spectral Problems, Dyer.
18. Analytical Chemistry, 3rd edition, Christian.
19. Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry, 2nd edition, Skoog and West.
20. Analytical Chemistry - 2nd edition, Pietrzky and Frank.

21. Contemporary Instrumental Analysis, Robinson and Robinson.

22. Spectroscopy Source Book, Science Reference Series, Sybil Parker, editor.

23. Organic Spectroscopy, William Kemp

24. Organic Spectroscopy, Jag Mohan.

25. Handbook of Analytical Techniques, Vol. I and II, helmut Gunzler and Alex Williams, eitors.

26. Internet Web Sites (see attachment).

 

Web Sources: Tutorials and Exercises

 

General:

1. http://www.spectroscopynow.com/Spy/basehtml/SpyH

2. http://www.uvm.edu/~jgoldber/courses/chem221/links.html

3. http://www.chemguide.co.uk/analysismenu.html

UV-VIS:

1. http://www.chemistry.ccsu.edu/glagovich/teaching/472/uvvis/uvvis.html

IR and NMR:

1. http://www.cem.msu.edu/~parrill/AIRS/

2. http://wwwchem.csustan.edu/Tutorials/INFRARED.HTM

3. http://orgchem.colorado.edu/hndbksupport/spect.html

4. http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/spec/IR.htm

NMR:

1. http://www.wfu.edu/~ylwong/chem/nmr/h1/(H-NMR)
2.
http://www.wfu.edu/%7Eylwong/nmr/c13/ (carbon NMR)
3.
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/nmr/ (H-NMR, IR, MS Tutor)
4.
http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/nmr/nmr-main.htm
(FT-NMR)
5.
http://science.widener.edu/svb/nmr/nmr.html (NMR General)
6. FT-NMR.html.ppt
7.
http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/spec/NMR.htm

MS:

1. http://staging.mc.vanderbilt.edu/msrc/tutorials/ms/ms.htm

2. http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/spec/MS.htm
2.
http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/gcms/

Chromatography:

1. http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/chemsep/index.html (Great Tutorial on Separation techniques)
2.
High-performance liquid hromatography(HPLC)
3.
http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/ASRG/HPLC/hplcmytry.html(HPLC)

Exercises:

http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~concept/spectro.html(quiz in NMR)
http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed
http://www.chem.uic.edu/web1/OCOL-II/WIN/SPEC.HTM(organic IR,NMR,MS)
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/(NMR)
http://www.nd.edu/~smithgrp/structure/workbook.html(organic Structure Elucidation)
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/name-ser.htm(NIST database search)
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/sci/chem/tutorials/(Spectroscopy tutorial/exercises)
http://www.chem.uni-potsdam.de/tools/index.html (Spectral Tools)
http://rainier.chem.plu.edu/fid_archive.html (FT-NMR Free Induction Decay Archive)
http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/menu-e.html (Integrated Spectral Data - Excellent Search site)

 

LECTURE TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

 

Introduction to Spectroscopy and Instrumental Analysis

Supplementary Lecture and Ch1.

 

Ch. 5:              Introduction/Signal and Noise
Solve problems: 5-2, 5-8, 5-12

 

Ch. 6,7:           Electromagnetic Radiation/Instruments for Optical Spectroscopy
Solve problems: 6-1, 6-3, 6-4, 6-6, 6-7, 6-11/

   7-1, 7-8, 7-10, 7-11, 7-13, 7-15, 7-19

Ch. 13, 14:      Absorption Spectra/ UV-VIS Spectroscopy

Solve problems: 13-1(d-f), 13-2(d-f), 13-4, 13-6, 13-8, 13-13(e-h), 13-19

                                                   14-6 (b)

 

Ch. 15,16,17:  Molecular Fluorescence/IR Spectroscopy
Solve problems: 15-1, 15-5, 15-6 (a & d),

   16- 2, 16-8, 16-11, and solve IR supplementary problems

 

Ch.19:             NMR Spectroscopy
Solve problem: 19-1, 19-10, 19-24, 19-28, 19-30

 

Ch.20:             MS Spectrometry

                        Solve supplementary problems

 

Ch. 26,27,28:  Chromatography
                        Solve problems: 26-1, 27-25, 27-26,

  

LABORATORY EXERCISES,EXPERIMENTS, AND RESEARCH

 

PART I

 

Absorption Spectra

Exercises
UV-Visible Spectroscopy

 

a. Familiarize yourself with the operation of the UV-VIS instrument.
b. Establishing maximum wavelength: Generate a visible spectrum for a known solution and establish its maximum wavelength.

c. Solvent Effect: Generate a set of UV spectra for a series of common solvents (water, methanol, hexane, etc)
e. Hypsochromic and bathochromic Shifts: Generate a UV spectra of pure acetone then show the solvent effect by running a solution of acetone in both polar (water) and non-polar (Toluene) solvents.
f. Chromophores: Generate a set of UV spectra for a number of known chromophores that contain aromatics and carbonyls (Acetone, Toluene, etc).
g. Conjugation and UV spectra: Generate a set of UV spectra for a series of conjugated and isolated pi bonded organic compounds (cyclohexene, toluene, naphthalene, anthracene, etc).

h. Do Exp. 358: A Beer's law Study.

i. Unknowns: Generate UV spectra for your unknowns for Part II.

               

Infrared  Spectroscopy

a. Familiarize yourself with the operation of the FT-IR instrument.
b. Path Length: Determine the path length of a given IR cell using interference lines method.
c. Sampling: Generate IR spectra for a set of knowns: solid, liquid, and gas samples.

d. Do Exp.26: Quantitative IR Analysis of Isopropyl alcohol in Toluene.

e. Generate IR spectra for your unknowns for Part III.

               


PART II

 

IDENTIFICATION

OF

UNKNOWNS

 

Part II of this lab is an investigative one in which you generate spectral data for two unknowns using the following instruments: UV-VIS, FT-IR, NMR. And GC-MS. Make sure that you analyze characteristic peaks and assign chemical property to each one. Finally, a brief narrative of how you arrived to the identity of your unknowns is required, giving a final conclusion of the identity of your unknowns, using supporting evidence from your spectral data – see lab manual for more details.

 

PART III

 

Research Projects

Applications and Investigations

 

Stage I: Select a project and do the literature study on it.

Stage II: A project outline detailing the experiment including the theory, and all necessary materials (both equipment and chemicals). 

Stage III: Involves the bench work and data collection for the project.  The final stage is the completion of a written report. 

 

  1. The Project Outline should include the following information:

Introduction: Here you must accomplish two things.  You must explain the specific goal of your experiment, and what principles of quantitative analysis will allow you to accomplish this goal.  It should read like one of the introductions to the experiments we did in this course.  The introduction should include any pertinent chemical reactions (remember to reference any sources used including lab manual and your text).

Apparatus:  You need to list any equipment that you will need beyond that in your locker.  This must be done in order to prepare lab services.

Chemicals:  You must list not only the chemicals necessary, but the quantities as well.  This is particularly important; otherwise you may run out before the completion of your experiment.

Safety: If any equipment/chemicals/ procedure requires any special safety considerations, you need to describe them here.  Also, state how you will dispose of your chemicals when you are finished - I suggest that you keep at hand all MSDS information for every chemical that you need.

Procedure:  The procedure should be explained, either in paragraph or list format, in enough detail so that you may complete the experiment without any additional information. 

 

  1. The Report:  If your Project Outline was done properly, the only additional information included in your report is the raw data (including graphs), a discussion of the data and a detailed conclusion describing any errors that may have occurred. Make sure to include references as supporting evidence of your work.

 

The following instruments are available to you:

1. Spec. 20 Visible
2. Spec. 21 UV-VIS
3.
Buck Scientific, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
4. Chemanal VIS/fluorescence/Naphelometry
5. Varian Cary 219 UV-VIS
6.
GBC UV-VIS 911
7.
HP UV-VIS spectrophotometer
8.
Beckman Acculab 1 IR and a Nicolet 410 FTIR
9. Bruker FT-NMR 300 MHz, remote operation (GSU)
10. Gowmac GC
11. HP GC/MS
12. Perkin-Elmer - 107 AA Spectrophotometer

 

V. EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS:

1. Attendance is required. A good attendance including the transcription of a good set of notes will greatly improve the student's chances for achieving a satisfactory grade in this course.
2. Homework problems will be assigned and graded. Frequent quizzes will be also given and graded.
3. A complete lab report of all experiments: lab exercises, unknowns analysis, identification and report, and investigative research project/presentation.
5. A comprehensive final examination (A takehome exam and ACS standardized exam).
6. Academic integrity must be always preserved. Any violation will be handled according to the guidelines of the College Catalog.

7. Breakdown of Lecture Grades :

Homework                   30%
Quizzes                        20%
Mid-Term Exam           20%

Final Exam                   30%

Total                           100%

               

8. Breakdown of lab Grades: Criteria used to arrive at the final grade will depend on the following:
a. completion of Part 1 - lab exercises/report;
b. organization, calculations, and quality of writing;
c. documentation of all relevant data, spectra, graphs, etc;
d. completion of part II - correct identification of unknowns/report;
e. completion of Part III - investigative project/report and presentation.