Practical Skills in Chemistry

Title page and other publisher info

Contents

List of boxes

Preface

Guided tour

For the Student

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations



Study and examination skills

The importance of transferable skills

Managing your time

Working with others

Taking notes from lectures and texts

Learning and revising

Curriculum options, assessments and exams

Preparing your curriculum vitae



Information technology and library resources

Finding and citing published information

Evaluating information

Using on-line resources

Internet resources for chemistry

Using spreadsheets

Word processors, databases and other packages



Communicating information

Organizing a poster display

Giving a spoken presentation

General aspects of scientific writing

Writing essays

Reporting practical and project work

Writing literature surveys and reviews



Fundamental laboratory techniques

Your approach to practical work

Health and safety

Working with liquids

Basic laboratory procedures I

Basic laboratory procedures II

Principles of solution chemistry

pH and buffer solutions



The investigative approach

Making and recording measurements

SI units and their use

Scientific method and design of experiments

Project work



Laboratory Techniques

Melting points

Recrystallization

Solvent extraction

Distillation

Reflux

Evaporation

Inert atmosphere techniques

Combinatorial chemistry



Classical Techniques

Qualitative techniques for inorganic analysis

Gravimetry

Procedures in volumetric analysis

Acid-Base titrations

Complexometric titrations

Redox titrations

Precipitation titrations



Analytical quantitative techniques

Fundamental principles of quantitative chemical analysis

Calibration and quantitative analysis

Basic spectroscopy

Atomic spectroscopy

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy

Chromatography basic principles

Gas and liquid chromatography*

Electrophoresis

Electroanalytical techniques

Radioactive isotopes and their uses



Analytical structural techniques

Infrared spectroscopy

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry

Mass spectrometry

Thermal analysis



Analysis and presentation of data

Using graphs

Presenting data in tables

Hints for solving numerical problems

Descriptive statistics

Choosing and using statistical tests

Drawing chemical structures

Chemometrics

Computational chemistry



Answers to problems

Index