MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE INFORMATION: SEMESTER YEAR: Spring 2004
CHEM 410-01 INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS
Professor: Dr. Frank Stary Credit Hours: 4
Meeting Days: Lecture M W 4:30-5:45 p.m.
Lab M 5:55-7:10 p.m. at announced times
Meeting Place: Lecture R 3327
Lab K 2117
Office Hours: T Th 10:50 a.m.-3 p.m. R 3306
Office Phone: 529-9425 leave message Email: stary@maryville.edu
Course Description: Modern instrumental methods including mass spectrometry, infrared spectrometry, proton magnetic resonance spectrometry, carbon-13 NMR spectrometry and gas and liquid chromatography. There will be some experience in the lab and perhaps a visit to some local labs.
Prerequisites: CHEM 103, 104 and 203
Course Objectives: CHEM 410 is an upper level chemistry course designed to help students develop a basic understanding of the most common instrumental methods of chemical analysis. The course will present the theory underlying these instrumental methods, instrumentation, some sample preparation and interpretation of results.
Instructional Methods and Class Expectations: The principal methods for presenting course material will be by reading assignments in the textbook, by class lectures and by some laboratory experiments. The lectures are intended to clarify materials in the reading assignments and the assignments should be completed prior to the lectures in which they are discussed. The laboratory experience will give an indication of the operation of some of the instruments available at Maryville University. Ample opportunity will be give during the lectures for questions on the material being covered. Attendance is expected at all class lecture sections and announced lab sessions. If you are unable to attend a lecture or laboratory session, you will still be responsible for the material covered.
Evaluation and Grading: Evaluation of student performance will be based on hour exams and on a series of problems involving the identification of unknown compounds. Five or six hour exams will be given and the lowest score will be dropped. The remaining hour exams will count for 60% of the grade. It is expected that all hour exams will be taken. The identification problems will count for 40% of the grade.
This syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the professor to accommodate instructional and/or student needs.