Standard syllabus
Chemistry laboratory · Undergraduate · Chemistry
Topics
Laboratory safety and ethics
- Chemical hygiene plan and OSHA laboratory standards
- Safety data sheets (SDS) and hazard pictograms
- Personal protective equipment: goggles, gloves, lab coats
- Fume hood use and ventilation principles
- Chemical storage and incompatible materials
- Fire safety: extinguishers, flammables cabinets
- Spill response and emergency procedures
- Waste disposal: aqueous, organic, heavy metals, sharps
- Laboratory notebook standards and data integrity
- Academic honesty in laboratory reporting
Measurement and quantitative techniques
- Significant figures and uncertainty in measurements
- Analytical balance and weighing techniques
- Volumetric glassware: pipettes, burets, volumetric flasks
- Calibration of thermometers and pH meters
- Preparation of standard solutions
- Serial dilution and concentration calculations
- Titration techniques and endpoint detection
- Gravimetric analysis procedures
- Spectrophotometric measurements and calibration curves
- Error analysis and propagation in lab reports
Synthesis and separation techniques
- Reflux and distillation setups
- Recrystallization and melting point determination
- Extraction and separatory funnel technique
- Thin-layer chromatography (TLC)
- Column chromatography for purification
- Vacuum filtration and rotary evaporation
- Drying agents and solvent removal
- Inert atmosphere techniques: Schlenk line (intro)
- Microscale vs macroscale apparatus
- Product isolation, drying, and yield calculation
Instrumental and analytical methods
- UV-Vis spectrophotometry operation
- FTIR sample preparation and spectral acquisition
- ¹H NMR sample preparation (where available)
- pH meter calibration and buffer preparation
- Gas chromatography sample injection (intro)
- HPLC basics and chromatogram interpretation
- Melting point apparatus and mixed melting points
- Polarimetry for chiral compounds (where covered)
- Conductivity measurements
- Data recording in digital laboratory notebooks
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