Laboratory for Instrumental analytical Chemistry

Laboratory for

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry

The laboratory for Instrumental Analytical Chemistry is based on relatively new and advanced analytical instruments. The main purpose of the laboratory is to expose and train the students in the operation and proper use of advanced analytical instruments, which are currently in broad usage in the industry in Israel and worldwide. The laboratory experiments are based on material given at the course Instrumental Analytical Chemistry and includes four instruments and experimental setups:

1. Gas Chromatography (GC)

2. Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)

3. Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

4. Flame Atomic Absorption (and emission) (FAA)

Each experimental setup requires three meetings of 4 hours in three consecutive weeks (total 12 hours). Students conducts the experiments as couples.

Each experiment begins with four hours of qualitative introduction to the analytical instrument, its parameters and the basic principles that govern its operation. The additional eight hours in the following weeks are devoted to advanced features and quantitative analysis.

Special attention must be given for safety, especially personal safety but also in order to avoid from damaging the instruments.

A central ingredient of keeping your safety and the proper operation of the instruments is your prior knowledge of the experiments and your provision of semi quantitative estimates (sometimes called “intelligent guess”) before the performance of any experiment. This prediction can be based on general knowledge, literature or calculations and will be inspected by the teaching assistants each meeting.

The laboratory staff

	Name	Contact by mail	Contact By phone	Experiment
Instructor:	Prof. Aviv Amirav	amirav@tau.ac.il	03-640-8253
Teaching assistants:	Oneg Elkabets	onegelkabets@mail.tau.ac.ill	03-640-6866	GC
	Svetlana Tsizin	svet3@mail.tau.ac.il	03-640-6866	GC-MS
	Ksenia Margolin-Eren	kseniak@mail.tau.ac.il	03-640-6866	HPLC
	Shlomi Voloderskii	shlomivol2010@gmail.com	03-640-5626	AA
Technical assistant:	Dr. Alexander Fialkov	filakov@tau.ac.il	03-640-7069

LABORATORY MANUAL A hard copy will also be provided to each student

SAFETY RULES

LINKS TO RELEVANT WEB SITES Information and specific Internet courses for each of the experimental setups above.

Advanced Methods in Analytical Chemistry class site

Tal Alon's Science Website

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Last update: March 2020 (By Ksenia Margolin-Eren )☺