Basic Analytical Chemistry

The aim of the course is to enable students to use basic chemical instruments (glassware, analytical and technical precision balances, micropipettes, magnetic stirrer with heating, chromatography tools, burettes, pH meter, spectrophotometer), with particular attention to safety regulations (Personal Protective Equipment), in order to perform chemical-physical analyses and apply the theoretical concepts learned in Medical Chemistry lessons.
Furthermore, the completion of the laboratory notebook will allow students to learn how to describe laboratory activities in writing, integrate them with theoretical concepts, and acquire and use appropriate technical-scientific language.

In line with the course objectives and after learning the safety rules for a chemical laboratory, the student will be able to operate safely in the lab, carry out simple experimental procedures, and report on the results obtained, also in collaboration with lab partners. In addition, the student will be able to recognize and use common laboratory glassware and the main analytical instruments (analytical and technical balances, micropipettes, magnetic stirrer with heating plate, burette, chromatography columns and plates, pH meter, UV-Vis spectrophotometer).
Specifically, by the end of the course, the student will be able to carry out analytical determinations by means of acid-base titrations (with indicators and/or using a pH meter) or chromatography (thin-layer and/or ion-exchange column chromatography); they will also be able to construct a calibration curve to quantitatively determine the protein content of an unknown solution.