27604 - Analytical Chemistry

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Barbara Roda
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: CHIM/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Barbara Roda (Modulo 1) Cristian Torri (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Environmental Sciences (cod. 8011)

Learning outcomes

The course gives the basic information about the Analytical Chemistry, proposing and discussing the first methods (potentiometry, conductometry and voltammetry) for the quantification of analytes.

Course contents

Modulo 1:

Volumetric analysis: acid-base, precipitation, complexometric and oxido-reduction titrations.

Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS)

inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES).

Liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Calibration methods and quantitative analysis

Laboratory experiences

Modulo 2:

Gas chromatography

Detector for gas chromatography

Mass spectrometry

FTIRand spectroscopic techniques

Exercices for the identification of organic compounds

Readings/Bibliography

Skoog-West-Holler: Fondamenti di Chimica Analitica, Edises Editore (Napoli)

Daniel C. Harris: Chimica Analitica Quantitativa, Zanichelli Editore (Bologna)

Kolthoff-Sandell-Meehan-Bruckenstein: Analisi Chimica Quantitativa, Piccin Editore (Padova)

Teaching methods

Room lessons assisted by projected material available to students on electronic media from the web.

Training in laboratory

Data elaboration and report preparation

Assessment methods

The exam will be at the end of the all lessons and it is oral on topics regardibg laboratory activities and arguments discussed during the class lessons.

Teaching tools

Power Point slides and Word report available on the net

https://iol.unibo.it/

Office hours

See the website of Barbara Roda

See the website of Cristian Torri

SDGs

Clean water and sanitation Affordable and clean energy Sustainable cities

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.