After successful completion of the course, students are able to assess the applicability, the information contents, and potential benefits or limitations of a particular (wet chemical or instrumental) analytical technique with regard to a given sample or analytical problem.
Fundamentals: Importance of analytical chemistry in technology and science; Areas of application, types of analytical problems. The analytical process and analytical figures of merit. Wet chemical analysis as underlying principle of many measurement methods: titrimetry and gravimetry; thermoanalytical and electrochemical methods with examples of use. Separation methods: Principles and important methods such as gas and liquid chromatography and electrophoresis. Spectroscopic methods: physico-chemical principles for absorption, emission and fluorescence and their application to the most important atomic spectrometric techniques (atomic absorption, atomic emission and x-ray fluorescence) and molecule-spectrometric techniques such as UV and IR absorption spectrometry and mass spectrometry. Sensors and on-line measurement techniques: Principles of chemical sensors and transducers (based on electrochemical, optical or physico-chemical techniques) and possibilities for their use in process and environmental analysis.
Classical lecture course format with numerous practical examples and the interaction with the course participants in discussions.
Written exam on the course topics.
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Copies of the PPT slides will be made available for download (via TISS or TUWEL) To read after the lecture course: M. Otto: Analytische Chemie (Wiley-VCH, 3. Auflage 2007) [in German]
Basic knowledge of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry, as well as of physics.
