Instrumental Chemical Analysis
Theory: 2 hours/week | Tutorials: 1 hour/week | ECTS Units: 4
Tutoring in the English language is offered to Erasmus students
Learning outcomes
The objective of the Instrumental Analysis course is to familiarize students, at a theoretical level, with modern methods of instrumental chemical analysis. Emphasis is placed on the principle of each analysis method, its instrumentation, the interpretation of the provided graphs or spectra, as well as the processing of data for the purposes of quantitative analysis.
Upon completion of the course, students are expected to:
- know the principle of the method, the basic instrumentation and the limitations of each of the presented methods of analysis,
- judge the suitability of an analytical method for the purposes of a specific analysis,
- graphically present data and extract the result of a quantitative analysis,
- be able to combine the results of different analytical methods in order to determine the structure of unknown compounds,
- to be acquainted with the basic principles of chromatographic separation techniques and the parameters that determine their successful application.
Syllabus
- Introduction to Instrumental Chemical Analysis.
- Introduction to spectroscopic methods of analysis.
- Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy.
- Infrared (IR) spectroscopy.
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
- Mass spectrometry (MS).
- Introduction to chromatographic methods of analysis.
- Gas chromatography (GC).
- High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
Student performance evaluation
Two written exams, both in the form of short-answer questions and exercises, and each one contributing 50% to the final grade, take place during the semester.
Alternatively, one written final exam is given at the end of the semester.
Suggested bibliography
- Principles of Instrumental Analysis, Skoog-Holler-Crouch, Cengage Learning, 2017.
- Analytical Chemistry, H. C. Daniel, L. A. Charles, W. H. Freeman, 2019.
- Instrumental Analysis, R. M. Granger, H. M. Yochum, J. N. Granger, K. D. Sienerth, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Related academic journals:
Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Journal of Chromatography.
Teaching Material / E-class
Lecturers
Dimitris Komiotis (Course Coordinator)
