Course Catalog

Description

Instrumental methods for quantitative analysis, general instrument performance characteristics and optimal methods for faster separation, detection, and/or quantification, including basic principles, applications of instrumentation for the quantitative analysis of drugs, cations, anions, neutral substances, particular functional organic groups, including pharmacopoeial methods and general aspects, such as calibration procedures. Widely used techniques for the separation of various compounds in analytical samples prior to their determination (high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, ion chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, affinity- and molecular exclusion chromatography, as well as thin-layer chromatography); different spectroscopic methods based on the measurement of the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and analyte atoms or molecules (ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry, fluorescence spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance). The practical course includes experiments and data interpretation on the major techniques covered in this course with particular focus on methods relevant in pharmacopoeial monographs.