Course detail

LMA5003 - Introduction to Chromatographic Methods of Analisys


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
5
10
4
2 weeks
60 hours

Instructor
Simone Possedente de Lira

Objective
Offer to graduate students the knowledge of the main chromatographic methods, to be able to select the appropriate technique according to the analysis.

Content
1) Chromatography History and Definition; 2) Areas of application; 3) Importance of the sample preparation step; 4) Types of Extraction; 5) Types of chromatography and classification; 6) Planar chromatography (paper and CCD); 7) open columns (solid phase extraction (SPE), Sephadex, LowBar, Flash); 8) liquid chromatography (instrumentation, fundamentals and applications); 9) gas chromatography (instrumentation, fundamentals and applications); 10) Case studies, news and applications.

Bibliography
Serão realizadas duas avaliações:uma prova escrita e um seminário (sobre um artigo científico atual), com pesos iguais que constituirão a média final.