Analytical Chemistry

The course aims to provide students with the general foundations of Analytical Chemistry by providing both theoretical and applied knowledge to operate correctly in an analytical chemistry laboratory. The course aims to introduce students to the understanding of equilibria in solution and the main methods of analysis. The course also aims to provide students with critical skills in evaluating the accuracy and precision of experimental data using statistical methods, the ability to solve analytical problems related to complex equilibria in solution and quantitative analysis of compounds. The course also includes laboratory exercises conducted at individual workstations, aimed at acquiring the knowledge necessary for conducting chemical analyses correctly, including basic safety protocols for handling and disposing of chemicals. These exercises focus on learning the fundamentals of volumetric analysis (titration).

At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the knowledge of analytical chemistry necessary for the knowledge of the principles on which the most commonly used analytical techniques in the chemical, chemical-toxicological and food fields are based; the knowledge of the procedures for processing and evaluating experimental data; the knowledge of the main complex chemical equilibria in solution and the ability to autonomously solve simple analytical problems ranging from sampling, sample treatment, up to the type of analytical method chosen (among those studied) for the quantification of the analytes, taking into account the uncertainty of measurement; the ability to use the specific language proper to Analytical Chemistry this to describe and comment on an analytical method and to report the result correctly and unambiguously. Attendance at the laboratory will enable the student to be able to operate safely in chemical laboratories and to perform standard laboratory procedures for the recognition and quantification of simple analytical species.