MChem Chemistry with International Study

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The unit aims to:
After completing this course you will be a proficient experimentalist capable of investigation in the laboratory environment

On successful completion of the course students should be able to: 
•    Be proficient in standard practical methods and be able to carry them out with precision and accuracy;
•    Be able to undertake basic safety assessments of experiments and carry out practical work safely and professionally;
•    Be capable of interpreting and manipulating analytical data and using it to draw conclusions;
•    Be capable of recording and reporting findings from these experimental processes to a basic, scientific standard.

A range of exercises will be completed which include the following basic techniques:
1)    Kinetic sampling with gas burette;
2)    Synthesis of inorganic complexes;
3)    IR spectroscopy
4)    Ketone reduction
5)    Use of ChemDraw® 
6)    Distillation at atmospheric pressure
7)    Synthesis and subsequent recrystallization;
8)    Computational Chemistry: Statistics and programming in MATLAB.
9)    Multistep synthesis
10)    Kinetic sampling with titration and conductiometrics
11)    Chromatography
12)    Hydrogen emission spectrum
13)    Colour – The Beer-Lambert Law
14)    Separation and extraction of a mixtures or organic compounds
15)    Acid – base titrations
16)    Resolution of racemic mixtures
17)    Report – writing