Useful Links for Analytical Chemistry
General Links / Electronics / Sample Preparation / Separations /
Spectroscopy / Mass Spectrometry / Electrochemistry
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- Trouble using your calculator? Can’t find the manual? If you have a TI calculator, you can download a guidebook from the TI website. Check it out!
- The Analytical Sciences Digital Library is a great resource for links to quality, peer-reviewed material focused toward those learning about analytical science. Check it out! The links below are particularly useful!
- Online quant. text: Analytical Chemistry 2.1
- Teaching Instrumental Analysis without a Textbook. Lots of links related to all things instrumental!
- The Analytical Chemistry Springboard. Oodles of links!
- Chemistry WebBook from NIST. Property and spectral data for elements, organic compounds, and small inorganic compounds.
- Resources for analytical chemistry students prepared by F.A. Senese at Frostburg State University.
- Neat animations at instrumentalchemistry.com
- A large collection of Java applets for demonstrating everything from data processing to acid-base titrations. From the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
- Statistics in Analytical Chemistry contains dozens of tutorials related to topics such as calibration, sampling and validation. From the folks at American Laboratory.
- Primers on everything from LC and MS to sample preparation from Waters Corporation.
- A wide range of resources for academia from Agilent. Topics from spectroscopy to separations to method validation and more!
- A YouTube channel from Afrotechmods with some nice electronics tutorial videos.
- Basic Electronics Tutorials Site by Wayne Storr. A very extensive list of tutorials.
- A circuit simulator Java applet. I haven’t played much with it but it looks interesting. You need to activate Java for the applet to function.
- Electronics fundamentals from Rohm Semiconductor
- Some useful resources describing Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) for the HPLC experiment:
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- From Waters Corporation (html link)
- From Restek (pdf file)
- From Sigma-Aldrich (pdf file)
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- Restek has a few animations of GC injection techniques. Very nice..
- Thermo Scientific’s Chromatography Resource Center has a great deal of information.
- A nice online textbook on High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- Nice animation of SPME: Sigma-Aldrich
- A very complete tutorial on GC/MS from Shimadzu, good animations and explanations.
- A nice introduction to the potential of Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC)
- From Waters Corporation, an extensive review of concepts in LC in the context of a “Beginners Guide to UPLC“. A logical approach to the benefits and challenges of LC with small particles.
- Chemical Separations pdf files of lecture presentations. Sponsored by Restek. – link dead?
- A nice introduction to Capillary Electrophoresis by MicroSolv Corporation.
- The Optics of Spectroscopy tutorial from Horiba, inc.
- USGS Spectroscopy Lab – home page
- UV-Vis Absorption Spectroscopy – Theory
- Spectrophotometry, The Absorption of Light
- A nice comparison of atomic spectroscopy techniques from Perkin Elmer
- An very nice online tutorial by Richard Caprioli and Marc Sutter at Vanderbilt – link dead?
- One more introduction to the theory and applications of mass spectrometry. This one is located at Scripps.
- Nice introduction to GC/MS hardware, including descriptions of ionization source, quadrupole mass filter, and detector, complete with animations from Shimadzu.
- Another Shimadzu presentation comparing Scan Mode and Selected Ion Monitoring for GC/MS
- An variety of interactive tutorials from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Includes single and dual sector instruments as well as FT- ICR.
- Pdf tutorials on a variety of aspects of MS from JEOL.
- I nice introduction to ICP-quadrupole-MS from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Waters’ mass spectrometry primer in web and pdf formats.
- Agilent has a very nice pdf with hyperlinks to more information on Fundamentals of Mass Spectrometry
- A video from Jove on tandem mass spectrometry and biochemical applications.
- Electrochemical Science and Technology Information Resource (ESTIR) from the Electrochemical Society.