Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer System

气相色谱/质谱仪(GC/MS)为化学家提供了分析化合物混合物和监测反应进展的强大工具。在本科生实验室中使用GC/MS给学生提供了当前分子分析仪器方法的经验，并通过实验演示了样品制备、数据采集和数据处理的概念。这项来自化学共享仪器项目的ILI奖将帮助弗吉尼亚联邦大学化学系获得GC/MS仪器，这些仪器将用于加强本科实验室教学。

Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) gives the chemist a powerful tool for analyzing mixtures of compounds and monitoring reactions as they progress. The use of GC/MS in the undergraduate laboratory gives students experience with current instrumental methods for molecular analysis and demonstrates, by experiment, the concepts of sample preparation, data acquisition, and data manipulation. This ILI award from the Chemistry Shared Instrumentation Program will help the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University to acquire GC/MS instrumentation that will be used to enhance undergraduate laboratory instruction.