Molecular Analytics Premaster Course

Course manual 2023/2024

Objectives

• The student can understand and describe the main physico-chemical properties of compounds and how these affect molecular behavior in analytical techniques.
• The student can describe and explain the main sample pre-treatment techniques and their underlying physical-chemical concepts.
• The student can describe and explain the principle of chromatography and retention mechanisms, and describe and apply key chromatographic concepts and parameters.
• The student can describe and explain the interactions of electromagnetic radiation with atoms and molecules, and explain how these are applied in qualitative and quantitative spectroscopic analyses. moleculen basaal beschrijven, en uitleggen hoe deze kunnen worden toegepast in eenvoudige kwantitatieve spectroscopische analyses.
• The student can describe and explain the underlying molecular and measuring concepts of UV-Vis, IR, NMR and luminescence spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry.
• The student can interpret relatively simple UV-Vis, IR, NMR and mass spectra.
• The student can describe and explain the principles of quantitative analysis, and can determine and express the confidence of measurements, incl. the execution of simple statistical tests.

Teaching methods

• Lecture
• Seminar
• Presentation/symposium
• Self-study

Learning activities

Attendance

Additional requirements for this course:

The Problems presentations and Assignment presentation are requirements. Without performing and passing these, no grade will be provided.

Assessment

 The written partial exams (E1 and E2), and online quizzes are graded.

- The grades  of the partial exams (E1 and E2) and average grade of the quizzes (Q), result in the final grade which equals to 0.45*E1+ 0.45*E2 + 0.1*Q.

- If Q < (E1+E2)/2 than final grade equals to 0.5*E1 + 0.5*E2.

The Problems presentations and Assignment presentation are requirements. Without performing and passing these, no grade will be provided.

Inspection of assessed work

Contact the course coordinator to make an appointment for inspection.

Assignments

Information will be provided during the course.

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

Timetable

The schedule for this course is published on DataNose.

Contact information

Coordinator

• prof. dr. Govert Somsen

Staff