Gas Chromatography for the Modern Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum

化学系正在购买两台气相色谱仪，用于分析化学、有机和高级有机化学以及物理化学实验室。在有机化学和高级有机化学实验室中，这些仪器用于测定由中位双酯的酶解所产生的反应产物的对映体过量、来自消除反应的异构烯的组成以及由碳正离子重排得到的产物的比率。在物理化学实验室里，学生们正在测量溶质的热力学性质，并从环加成反应中收集速率数据。从事自主学习的学生也在使用这些仪器。

The Department of Chemistry is purchasing two gas chromatographs for use in analytical chemistry, organic and advanced organic chemistry, and physical chemistry laboratories. In the organic and advanced organic chemistry laboratories, the instruments are used to determine the enantiomeric excess of reaction products resulting from an enzymatic hydrolysis of a meso-diester, the composition of isomeric alkenes derived from an elimination reaction, and the ratio of products obtained from a carbocation rearrangement. Students in the physical chemistry laboratory, students are measuring the thermodynamic properties of solutes and collecting rate data from a cycloaddition reaction. Students engaged in independent study are also using the instruments.