Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer System

气相色谱/质谱（GC/MS）为化学家分析化合物混合物和监测反应过程提供了强大的工具。在本科实验室中使用GC/MS使学生能够体验当前分子分析的仪器方法，并通过实验演示样品制备，数据采集和数据操作的概念。这项来自化学共享仪器计划的ILI奖将帮助弗吉尼亚联邦大学化学系获得气相色谱/质谱仪器，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.