RUI: Purchase of a Mass Spectrometer

在化学研究仪器和设施(CRIF)计划的支持下，罗马点拿撒勒学院的化学系将获得一台气相色谱-质谱仪。该设备将加强本科生在多个领域的研究，包括腐植酸在甲醇中的模型化合物的卤化，以及卤素体系与全氟烯烃和全氟二烯的亲电与自由基反应。使用气相色谱-质谱仪(GC-MS)来分离和鉴定复杂混合物是任何本科生研究计划的重要组成部分。GC-MS是一种用于探测密切结构细节并获得大量有机、生物有机和有机金属分子的分子组成的技术。这些研究将促进我们对在处理后的水中产生卤代化合物的过程的理解，这对环境化学以及毒理学和人类健康领域都是重要的。

With support from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF) Program, the Department of Chemistry at Point Loma Nazarene College will acquire a Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer. This equipment will enhance undergraduate research in a number of areas, including halogenation of model compounds of the humic acids in methanol; and electrophilic versus radical reactions of halogen systems with perfluoroalkenes & perfluorodienes.The use of Gas Chromatograph-Mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to provide the separation and identification of complex mixtures is a valuable part of any undergraduate research program. GC-MS is a technique used to probe intimate structural details and to obtain the molecular compositions of a vast array of organic, bioorganic, and organometallic molecules. These studies will advance our understanding of the processes resulting in halogenated compounds in treated waters, which is important to environmental chemistry and also to the toxicology and human health areas.