Gas Chromatography and Thermal Analysis in Undergraduate Labs

化学系正在采购毛细管柱 气相色谱/FID和热分析仪（DSC和TGA）， 使学生在有机和分析化学课程， 在小型研究项目方面的工作需要多个 实验室会议 有机化学的学生正在使用气体 色谱探索：相对效率 不同的蒸馏技术，异构体分布， 天然产物，手性还原的立体化学 酮的硼氢化-氧化区域化学 不对称烯烃。 差示扫描量热法 也用于有机化学中表征聚合物。 分析化学专业的学生正在检测挥发性有机物 并使用热重法定量测定血浆中 分析草酸盐的混合物。

The Department of Chemistry is purchasing a capillary column gas chromatograph/FID and thermal analyzer (DSC and TGA) to enable students in organic and analytical chemistry courses to work in terms on mini-research projects requiring multiple laboratory sessions. Organic chemistry students are using gas chromatography to explore: the relative efficiencies of different distillation techniques, isomer distributions in natural products, the stereochemistry of reduction of chiral ketones, and the regiochemistry of hydroboration-oxidation of unsymmetrical alkenes. Differential scanning calorimetry is also being used in organic chemistry to characterize polymers. Analytical chemistry students are detecting volatile organics in blood plasma and using thermal gravimetry to quantitatively analyze mixtures of oxalate salts.