Modernization of the Instruments in Organic Chemistry Laboratory

现代仪器是强大的分析工具，它们的用途是 在有机化学实验室开始时强调， 学生学习气体和高效液相色谱仪 (GC HPLC）和红外，核磁共振，紫外， 和质谱仪。 这些工具，特别是IR和 气相色谱法不仅用于产品的简单分析， 从反应和蒸馏，但复杂的分离 混合物，以测试机械假说（碳阳离子 重新安排）。 本科生的研究正在增加 强调在机构。 在一个小学院里， 不仅服务于初级和高级实验室， 因此，这些工具必须产生高质量的数据 在苛刻的条件下，必须足够灵活，以满足 意想不到的新需求。 通过这个项目，该机构 升级了有机化学仪器 他们获得了一个 傅里叶变换红外光谱和毛细管柱气相色谱。 的 新的仪器提供了更好的数据，允许一些 进行新的实验，并使教师能够教 新技术 该机构为该项目作出了贡献， 相当于国家科学基金会的资金。

Modern instruments are powerful tools of analysis and their use is emphasized in the beginning organic chemistry laboratory, where the students learn of gas and high performance liquid chromatographs (GC, HPLC), and infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet, and mass spectrometers. These instruments, especially the IR and GC, are used extensively not only for simple analysis of products from reactions and distillations but for the separation of complex mixtures to test mechanistic hypotheses (carbocation rearrangements). Undergraduate research is receiving increased emphasis at the institution. In a small college all instruments serve not only the beginning and upper class labs but the research students as well, so these instruments must produce quality data under demanding conditions and must be flexible enough to meet unanticipated new demands. Through this project, the institution upgraded its organic chemistry instrumentation. They acquired an easy-to-teach Fourier-transform IR and a capillary column GC. The new instruments provided significantly better data, allowed several new experiments to be performed, and enabled the faculty to teach new technologies. The institution contributed to this project in an amount equal to the NSF funds.