KIM 211E - Analytical Chemistry

Course Objectives

1.To provide a background in those chemical principles that are particularly important to analytical chemistry; 2.To give judgments of the accuracy and precision of experimental data; 3. To show how these judgments can be sharpened by the application of statistical methods; 4.To introduce gravimetric and titrimetric techniques of Analytical chemistry

Course Description

Steps in quantitative analysis; Methods for expression of concentrations of solutions; Errors in chemical analysis; Application of statistics to data treatment and evaluation; Gravimetric method of analysis; Titrimetric method of analysis; Aqueous solution chemistry; Effects of electrolytes on ionic equilibria; Application of equilibrium calculations to complex systems; Titration curves for complex acid-base systems; Complex formation titrations; Precipitation titrimetry; Review