Integration of a GC-MS into Hood College's Discovery-Based Curriculum

这所女子寄宿学院通过这个项目获得了HP-GCD高性能气相色谱-质谱仪(GC-MS)系统。各级化学专业的学生都可以使用该仪器发现和学习色谱分离和质谱分析的原理和技术。GC-MS在整个课程中的具体应用包括：在普通化学课程中用于学生设计的研究项目；一般介绍GC-MS的操作原理及其在有机化学实验室反应产物分析中的应用；GC-MS的理论、操作和优化及其在仪器分析实验室的分析应用；在环境化学和生物实验室的水和土壤样本分析中用作物质识别工具；理论预测的碎片模式与物理化学实验室实验MS数据的关联；以及独立学习和暑期研究项目的基本实验室仪器，尤其是涉及环境和合成有机化学的项目。*

This residential college for women is acquiring, through this project, an HP-GCD high performance gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC-MS) system. Chemistry students at all levels can use the instrument to discover and learn the principles and techniques of chromatographic separation and analysis by mass spectrometry. Specific applications for the GC-MS throughout the curriculum include use in student-designed research projects in the general chemistry course; general introduction to the principles of operation of a GC-MS and its application to reaction product analysis in the organic chemistry laboratory; theory, operation, and optimization of a GC-MS and its analytical applications in the instrumental analysis laboratory; use as a substance identification tool in the analysis of water and soil samples in the environmental chemistry and biology laboratories; correlation of theoretically predicted fragmentation patterns with experimental MS data in the physical chemistry laboratory; and essential laboratory instrument for independent study and summer research projects, especially for those projects involving environmental and synthetic organic chemistry. *