4 ECTS credits
120 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4023290DNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Department
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
External partners
Universiteit Gent
Educational team
Decaan WE (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

15 contact hours Lecture
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
13 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content
  • Fundamentals of State-of-the-Art Gas Chromatography
  • Fundamentals of State-of-the-Art Liquid Chromatography
  • High Throughput and High Resolution 1D Separation approaches
  • Kinetic plots in Liquid Chromatography
  • High Throughput and High Resolution 2D Separation approaches
  • Recent Developments in Sample Preparation for Gaseous, Liquid and Solid Samples
  • Stationary phase as an adaptable tool for selectivity tuning in chromatography
  • Chromatographic method development and validation
  • Pressure versus Electroosmotic Driven Chromatographic Techniques
  • Field flow fractionation
  • Strategies for chiral separations
  • Selection of a Chromatographic Technique for a Given Application
  • non-linear versus linear chromatography – principles of preparative chromatography
  • Hyphenation of separation techniques and mass spectrometry
  • comprehensive discussion (and use) of ionization sources in MS: electron ionization, chemical ionization, photoionization, desorption ionization, spray ionization, thermal ionization, direct analysis in real time (DART), Desorption electrospray ionization.
  • Ion Mobility Spectrometry an alternative to chromatography?
  • Principles and applications of tandem mass spectrometry
Additional info

PowerPoint presentations (Minerva)

References

  • Recent literature. The books are relevant with respect to the section of mass spectrometry. These books do not have to be purchased. A copy thereof can be provided upon request.Mass Spectrometry (3rd edition), J.H. Gross, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-54397-0; Organic Structure Analysis (2nd edition), P Crews, J. Rodriguez, M. Jaspars, Oxford university press.
Learning Outcomes

general competencies

  • The student is able to select adequate sample preparation, separation and detection techniques to address qualitative and quantitative issues in organic analysis.
  • The student is able to select suitable separation and detection techniques allowing qualitative and quantitative analysis of unknown samples
  • The student is able to perform without supervision qualitative and quantitative HPLC and GC-MS analyses and to interpret the data.

 

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • written with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Participation, proficiency tes with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

50% end-of-term evaluation (Written examination) and 50% on the continuous assignment (
Participation, proficiency test, report)

 

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Chemistry: Analytical and Environmental Chemistry