Analytical Chemistry

The course has the goal to provide the students the general bases of Analytical Chemistry enabling
them to operate within a laboratory of analytical chemistry. The course aims to introduce students to the understanding of equilibria in solution and of the main methods of analysis both from a theoretical point of view and from a more applicative point of view. The course also aims to make students able to acquire the critical ability in underestimating the accuracy and precision of experimental data through statistical methods, the ability to solve analytical problems related to complex equilibria in solution and quantitative analysis of compounds. The course also includes a single-seat laboratory teaching unit in which exercises will be carried out aimed at acquiring the notions that allow a correct conduct of a chemical analysis, including the elementary safety rules relating to handling and disposal and chemical products. The laboratory exercises are aimed at learning the basic knowledge of volumetric analysis (titration).

At the end of the course the student acquires the notions of analytical chemistry necessary for: knowledge of the procedures for processing and evaluating experimental data; the knowledge of the main complex chemical equilibria in solution and the ability to independently solve simple analytical problems ranging from sampling, to 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 of analytical chemistry to describe and comment on an analytical method and report the result correctly and without ambiguity. The attendance of the laboratory will allow the student to be able to perform standard laboratory procedures for the recognition and quantification of simple analytical species.