Chemical Structures Lab (CH 379) at UMass Boston

Professor Timothy Dransfield
CH 379, Fall 2009
Office: S-1-085
Telephone: 617-287-6143
E-Mail: timothy.dransfield@umb.edu

Lectures Take Place in S-1-89 (Chemistry Conference Room)

(Most) Labs Take Place in S-2-41.

These pages will gradually fill up with PDF files for all sorts of things - problem sets, solutions, examples, handouts... but for all of them, you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it already, it's a free download - go here for more information. In addition, you’ll need to have access to a spreadsheet program for the analysis of your data. I’ll be using Microsoft Excel, which is available in the computer labs.

General Information
Dramatically Revised Schedule of Experiments
Guidelines for Lab Reports

Sample paper from the Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Link to the NIST spectral database

Link to the biographies of the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Link to the biographies of the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physics

Introductory Lecture

Science article on the AFM of pentacene

Experiment One: Use of a Spectrometer, Background Information

Experiment One: Use of a Spectrometer, Procedure

Quiz Solution

Lecture Notes

Experiment Two: Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom