The Insrtumental Analysis course is to provide the good fundamental knowledge and skills of instrumental analysis for the international pharmacy students. Through the study of this course, students are required to master the basic knowledge, basic theory and basic operation technology of instrumental analysis, including spectroscopy, chromatography and electrochemistry, to understand some cutting-edge new technologies and methods, and to cultivate students' ability to analyze and solve practical problems in pharmaceutical analysis, which would be a solid foundation for their further study of pharmaceutical related professional courses and pharmaceutical research.

    This course has a total of 34 teaching hours with the forms of lecture session and flip-classroom session in one academic semester. After all teachers’ lectures (30 teaching hours), an interesting online flipped classroom teaching in the form of "Small Group Discussion (SGD, 4 teaching hours) will be developed to guide students to analyze and solve some practical problems in pharmacy by using the knowledge of instrumental analysis under the guidance of instructors as well as the co-operation of students’ teams.

       Instrumental Analysis is the course of obtaining, processing, and communication information about the composition and structure of matter by instrumental analysis.

       The aim of this course is to provide the knowledge of the composition of matters, analytical skills and related methodologies for modern chromatographic, spectral and electrochemical analysis in pharmaceutical separation and characterization, as well as provide an appropriate basis for the later study of pharmacy.

       It is a core course of all pharmaceutical majors. On completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Master the basic principles of spectral analysis, including the UV-Vis, Fluorescence, and IR, and identify the unknown compounds based on the above spectral knowledge;
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• Master the basic principles and calculation of chromatographic analysis, including GC, HPLC, and TLC;
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• Master the basic principles and calculation of electrochemical analysis, including potentiometry and potentiometric titration;
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• Understand other advanced modern technologies of instrumental analysis, such as Capillary Electrophoresis, Microchips, and Nano analysis;
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• Solve some problems in pharmaceutical analysis based on the learning of above knowledge and skills of instrumental analysis.

Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Analysis

Textbook

David S. Hage, James D. Carr. Analytical Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis. China Machine Press, 2012.

References

1. Skoog & West’s. Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry (9th Ed.)

2. D.C. Harris. Quantitative Chemical Analysis (8th Ed.)

3. David Harvey. Analytical Chemistry 2.0 (2008，e-book)