CHEMISTRY 5355 Analytical Techniques I Fall 2005

TR 9:30 –10:45 a.m. BE 3.102

Instructor: Dr. Inga Holl Musselman Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: BE 2.318 Phone/Voice Mail: (972) 883-2706
Email: imusselm@utdallas.edu
Office Hours: Please come by my office or make an appointment.

Educational Goals: (1) To gain an understanding of the theory, instrumentation, and applications of
instrumental analysis methods.
(2) To acquire experience searching the chemical literature and writing a sound
scientific document.

Required Text: “Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 5th Edition”, Skoog, Holler, Nieman, Saunders
College Publishing
This text will be supplemented with monographs, reviews and/or research articles.

Prerequisites: None

Grading: Exam 1 15%

Exam 2 15%
Exam 3 15%
Homework 20%
Class Presentation 15%
Final Exam 20%

Class Presentation: Presentations will take place in an afternoon or evening symposium at the end of
the semester. Details will follow.

Final Exam: Thursday December 1, 2005 8:00 – 10:45 a.m.

The exam will combine the semester's content.

Drop/Add deadlines: See the UTD Website.

Academic Dishonesty:
“The faculty expects from its students a high level of responsibility and academic honesty. Because the
value of an academic degree depends upon the absolute integrity of the work done by the student for that
degree, it is imperative that a student demonstrate a high standard of individual honor in his or her scholastic
work.

Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, statements, acts or omissions related to applications for
enrollment or the award of a degree, and/or the submission as one’s own work of material that is not one’s
own. As a general rule, scholastic dishonesty involves one of the following acts: cheating, plagiarism,
collusion and/or falsifying academic records. Students suspected of academic dishonesty are subject to
disciplinary proceedings.”1 Such disciplinary action could include failure of the assignment and/or failure of
the course.

1. The University of Texas at Dallas 2002-2004 Graduate Catalog, Appendix 1.

Chemistry 5355 Syllabus Dr. Musselman
Date Lecture Topic Chapter

INTRODUCTION
Aug. 18 Introduction, Designing Measurements, 5-7
Modular Approach to Instrumentation

QUALITATIVE OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS

Aug. 23 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy 16, 17
Aug. 25 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy 16, 17
Aug. 30 ATR-FTIR/FTIR Microspectroscopy 17
Sept. 1 Raman Spectroscopy 18
Sept. 6 Raman Spectroscopy 18
Sept. 8 Powder X-ray Diffraction 12
Sept. 13 Powder X-ray Diffraction 12

QUANTITATIVE OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS

Sept. 15 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy 8, 9
Sept. 20 EXAM 1
Sept. 22 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy 8, 9
Sept. 27 Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission 10
Sept. 29 Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry 11
Oct. 4 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry 12
Oct. 6 UV and Visible Molecular Absorption Spectrometry 13, 14
Oct. 11 UV and Visible Molecular Absorption Spectrometry 13, 14
Oct. 13 Molecular Fluorescence Spectrometry 15

MASS SPECTROMETRY
Oct. 18 Introduction to Vacuum Science and Mass Spectrometry
Oct. 20 EXAM 2
Oct. 25 Mass Spectrometry of Volatile Analytes: Ion Sources 20
Oct. 27 Mass Spectrometry of Volatile Analytes: Mass Analyzers 20

MICROSCOPIC AND SURFACE ANALYSIS METHODS

Nov. 1 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy 21
Nov. 3 Atomic Force Microscopy 21
Nov. 8 Scanning Electron Microscopy 21
Nov. 10 Scanning Electron Microscopy 21
Nov. 15 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy 21
Nov. 17 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy 21
Nov. 22 EXAM 3

Nov. 24 Thanksgiving Day, No Class

Dec. 1 FINAL EXAM 8:00 – 10:45 a.m.