Elementary Physical Chemistry Laboratory
Professor Jeffery L. Yarger
This molecular sciences ‘cloud’ laboratory will cover topics in modern experimental and computational physical chemistry and biophysical chemistry. Syllabus in PDF format.
Labs
Introduction & Background Material (Videos – Vimeo)
- ASU Online IT information
- Remote Experiments (Introduction)
- Computational / Simulations (Overview)
- Data & Error Analysis (Error Analysis Review)
- DYOR – Literature / Resources Search (Google Scholar, Scopus)
Pre-Lab – Working with Experimental & Computational Data
- Experimental Data
- Computational Resources & Data
- Computational – MolCalc, Chem Compute, Rowan
- ASU: ASU Sol (WebMO Access: webmo.sol.rc.asu.edu) (Gaussian 16 & Gaussview6: https://docs.rc.asu.edu/gaussian)
- DIY (Your own computer): ORCA, Psi4, PySCF, eChem.
- Computational – MolCalc, Chem Compute, Rowan
- Data/Error Analysis
- Lab Quiz
- Lab Quizzes are take by students on Canvas
- Outline of Quiz Questions
Lab 1 – Molecular Thermodynamics – Properties of Gases
- Experimental – Remote Acoustic Interferometer (acoustic2.pchem.dev)
- Sign-up Sheet (Google Sheet)
- March 23-31 (students should sign up once between March 23-27 and a 2nd sign up between March 28-31)
- Air, Natural Gas, Ar, CO2, N2O are available for students to collect data on remotely at acoustic2.pchem.dev.
- Unknown Refrig Gas has been collected for students and is available on acoustic2.pchem.dev or on github:
- Unknown Refrig Gas FT-IR spectrum (on GitHub):
- Sign-up Sheet (Google Sheet)
- Computational – Cloud-based: MolCalc, Chem Compute, Rowan
- Data/Error Analysis – Google CoLaboratory
- Lab Quiz
- Lab Quizzes are take by students on Canvas
- Outline of Quiz Questions
- Report / Notebook
Lab 2 – Calorimetry: Measurement of Chemical & Physical Transformation
- Experimental – Calorimetry
- Constant Volume Calorimetry (Bomb Calorimetry Simulator)
- Every student should use the last 4 digits of their ASU ID # as the Calorimeter Code they use for bomb calorimetry simulations.
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC, Sync Remote Lab)
- The remote DSC will not be used by students independently but rather as an ASU sync experiment on Zoom with a TA or Instructor.
- Remote sync DSC experiments – During Zoom Meetings on April 8, 10 and 15th.
- Remote DSC is a TA Instruments DSC2500 and the data will be saved and posted on the CHM343 GitHub Calorimetry Data Repository. The native data can be read by a free version of TRIOS and will also be exported as a text file.
- Constant Volume Calorimetry (Bomb Calorimetry Simulator)
- Computational – MolCalc, Chem Compute, Rowan
- Data/Error Analysis – Google CoLaboratory
- Lab Quiz – Canvas
- Report / Notebook
Lab 3 – Chemical Equilibrium & Kinetics – Spectroscopy
- Experimental – Remote NMR Spectrometer.
- Spintropy – username: asu_chm343 password: Provided on Canvas.
- Information on Remote Automated NMR of Acetylacetone (AcAc) in Various Solvents
- Computational – MolCalc, Chem Compute, Rowan
- Data/Error Analysis – Spintropy / NMRium
- Lab Quiz – Canvas
- Report / Notebook
Projects
Lab X (Optional / Makeup) – Examples
- Lab X1 – Acoustic Interferometer of Common Refrigerant Gases. (DIY)
- Lab X2 – Molecular Understanding of Analyte Diffusion in Water. (Remote NMR)
- Lab X3 – Vibrational Spectroscopy of Chloro-Methanes. (Remote IR and Raman)
- Lab X4 – Molecular Structure and Dynamics of a cyclic peptide – Gramacidin-S. (Remote NMR)
- Lab X5 – Optical Diffraction using a Remote Laser Optical Setup. (Remote Laser & Optics)
- Lab X6 – Acoustic Interferometer of Common Refrigerant Gases. (DIY)
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