Analysis of Complex Mixtures in Complex Media: A New Undergraduate Course

本项目提供资金用于购买Nicolet气相色谱/傅里叶变换红外（GC/FTIR）系统，该系统是新开设的“复杂介质中复杂混合物分析”实验课程中使用的主要仪器之一。该仪器与现有的部门分析设备和当地制造商提供的微波消解装置一起使用，使教师能够实施一个项目，在这个项目中，教授本科化学专业学生对复杂系统（如土壤、水、生物样品、食物和其他多组分混合物）进行有机分析所必需的实验室技术。这样做的目的是为本科生，特别是那些最终学位是学士学位的本科生，提供在工业或环境化学分析等领域表现良好所需的技能。GC/FTIR系统在这些类型的分析中起着重要的作用，因为更流行的质谱仪（MS）或GC/MS技术往往不能提供必要的信息来区分相同分子量的类似化合物（例如，几何和取代异构体）。

This project provides funds to purchase a Nicolet gas chromatography/Fourier-transform infrared (GC/FTIR) system, which is one of the primary instruments to be used in a new laboratory course entitled Analysis of Complex Mixtures in Complex Media. Used in conjunction with existing department analytical equipment and a microwave digestion unit provided by a local manufacturer, this instrument permits faculty to implement a program in which undergraduate chemistry majors are taught the laboratory techniques necessary to perform organic analysis of complex systems such as soils, water, biological samples, food, and other multicomponent mixtures. The purpose of this is to provide undergraduates, especially those whose terminal degrees are a bachelor's, the skills necessary to perform well in areas such as industrial or environmental chemical analysis. The GC/FTIR system plays an important role in these types of analysis, since the more popular mass spectrometer (MS) or GC/MS techniques often fail to provide the information necessary to distinguish between similar compounds (e.g., geometric and substitution isomers) of identical molecular weight.