Laboratory for

Instrumental Analytical Chemistry

 

The laboratory for Instrumental Analytical Chemistry is based on relatively new and advanced analytical instruments. The main purpose of the laboratory is to expose and train the students in the operation and proper use of advanced analytical instruments, which are currently in broad usage in the industry in Israel and worldwide.  The laboratory experiments are based on material given at the course Instrumental Analytical Chemistry and includes four instruments and experimental setups:

 

1.   Gas Chromatography (GC)

2.   Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)

3.   Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

4.   Flame Atomic Absorption (and emission) (FAA)

 

Each experimental setup requires three meetings of 4 hours in three consecutive weeks (total 12 hours). Students conducts the experiments as couples.

Each experiment begins with four hours of qualitative introduction to the analytical instrument, its parameters and the basic principles that govern its operation. The additional eight hours in the following weeks are devoted to advanced features and quantitative analysis. 

 

Special attention must be given for safety, especially personal safety but also in order to avoid from damaging the instruments. 

A central ingredient of keeping your safety and the proper operation of the instruments is your prior knowledge of the experiments and your provision of semi quantitative estimates (sometimes called “intelligent guess”) before the performance of any experiment. This prediction can be based on general knowledge, literature or calculations and will be inspected by the teaching assistants each meeting.

 

The laboratory staff

 

Name

Contact by mail

Contact By phone

Experiment

Instructor:

Prof. Aviv Amirav

amirav@tau.ac.il

03-640-8253

 

Teaching assistants:

Mati Morag

moragmat@tau.ac.il

03-640-6866

GC-MS

Ben Maoz     

benmaoz@tau.ac.il

03-640-9018

HPLC

Boaz Seeman             

boazseem@post.tau.ac.il

03-640-6866

AA

Dmitry Kovalerchik

dmitrink@post.tau.ac.il

03-640-7378

GC

Technical assistant:

Dr. Alexander Fialkov

filakov@tau.ac.il

 03-640-6866

 

 

 

LABORATORY MANUAL.  A hard copy will also be provided to each student (free).

SAFETY RULES

LINKS TO RELEVANT WEB SITES. Information and specific Internet courses for each of the experimental setups above.  

Tal Alon's Science Website  

 

 

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Last update:  February 2011 (By Mati Morag)