GC/MS for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory

该项目将惠普Hewlett Packard气相色谱/质谱仪HP 6890 GC/MS、带有电子电离和化学电离检测器的台式GC/MS整合到化学专业二年级有机实验室、荣誉普通和有机化学以及高级有机和无机实验室。该系统提供了在本科生有机实验室环境中有效使用的所有必要特征，即高灵敏度和准确的可重复性定量，但同时它非常易于使用和非常可靠。化学系已有意识地努力在本科实验室中增加仪器，以便使学生接触到现代技术，并纳入更多需要更高水平和独立思考的实验。该仪器正被用于有机定性分析，以补充现有的设备，并用于各级本科生的独立研究项目。

The project is incorporating the Hewlett Packard gas chromatography/mass spectrometer HP 6890 GC/MS, a benchtop GC/MS with an electron ionization and a chemical ionization detector, in to the sophomore organic lab for chemistry majors, the Honors general and organic chemistry, and the senior level organic and inorganic laboratories. This system provides all the necessary features for effective use in an undergraduate organic laboratory environment, namely high sensitivity and accurate reproducible quantitation, but at the same time it is very easy to use and very reliable. The Chemistry Department has made a conscious effort to include more instrumentation in the undergraduate laboratories in order to expose students to modern techniques and to incorporate more experiments requiring higher-level and independent thinking. The instrument is being used in organic qualitative analysis to supplement existing equipment, and in the independent research projects done by undergraduates of all levels.