The schedule below outlines each day's main topic(s). Reading assignments from Analytical Chemistry 2.1, links to additional reading assignments, and links to useful files are listed after the topic; see below for a list of useful explanatory codes.
Getting Started
- August 23: deconstructing an instrument
Unit One
In which we explore how to leverage the interaction of light with matter to generate a useful analytical signal.
- August 28: ways in which light interacts with matter (Chapter 10A, B.1)
- August 30: Beer's law and its limitations (Chapter 10B.2-5)
- September 4: designing an instrument for molecular absorption-part i (Chapter 10C)
- September 6: designing an instrument for molecular absorption-part ii (Chapter 10C)
- September 11: designing an instrument for atomic absorption (Chapter 10D)
- September 13: designing an instrument for emission, fluoresence, and scattering (Chapter 10E-H
- September 18: quantitative and qualitative analysis using spectroscopy (Chapter 5)
- September 20: literature discussion (paper tbd)
- September 25: exam for unit I
Unit Two
In which we explore how to leverage the interaction of an electrical charge, current, or potential and matter to generate a useful analytical signal.
- September 27:
DePauw Dialogue 2017
- October 2: keys to understanding voltammetry (Chapter 11A)
- October 4: potential-step methods; chronoamperometry and chronocoulometry (Chapter 11D)
- October 9: potential-scan methods; linear-sweep voltammetry (Chapter 11D)
- October 11: potential-scan methods; cyclic voltammetry (Chapter 11D)
- October 16:
Fall Break
- October 18:
Fall Break
- October 23: pulse-potential methods; pulse polarography (Chapter 11D)
- October 25: using electrochemistry to study reaction mechanisms (Chapter 11D.7)
- October 30: quantitative analysis using voltammetry (Chapter 11D.6)
- November 1: literature discussion (paper tbd)
- November 6: exam for unit II
Unit Three
In which we explore how to leverage the interaction of photons, electrons, ions, and fields with surfaces to generate a useful analytical signal.