Analytical chemistry

My interest in biology and chemistry stems from the fact it explains a world that’s not visible to the eye, but is a key role to life. This sparked my interest in the intricacy of the human anatomy and physiology which has me curious to the research required. The desire to pursue a career in helping others, but also to explore science at a greater depth. I believe biomedical science will enable me to broaden my perspective and give me a solid foundation of knowledge and skills required for…

Observations In step one an ice bath was prepared. Then in step two, a pipette was used to measure 1 mL of concentrated nitric acid into a 10 mL graduated cylinder. The concentrated nitric acid was placed into a reaction tube and clamped in the water bath. In step four, 1 mL of concentrated sulfuric acid was added slowly to the traction tube with nitric acid. Then the mixture was left to sit in the ice water bath for at least five minutes. A small plastic bag was filled with ice and a towel was…

In this project the aim is to determine the equilibrium constant (Kc) of a weak base when it reacts with a weak acid. The chemicals I wish to determine the equilibrium constant for are, Ethanoic acid (CH3COOH) and Propanol (C3H7OH). To accomplish this, the first question we must ask is, “what is an equilibrium constant and how is it determined”? There are 2 different types of equilibrium. The first, and the type we shall be using is known as homogeneous equilibrium which has everything present…

Abstract The Purpose of experiment is to introduce the technique of crystallization, by following methods to purify the antibiotic sulfanilamide away from acetanilide. From the laboratory experiment, 0.51 g of impure sulfanilamide was at first measured and experienced in the crystallization procedure. Because of different steps of the experiment, the last mass of the crystal was 0.22g. This demonstrates the procedure decreased the underlying mass by 0.28g which mean the 43.13% recovery using…

played a big part in his childhood. He read numerous science magazines and articles as a child. He was very interested in inventing things. He was also a piano prodigy (Britannica). When Hall began college at Oberlin College, he was quick to study chemistry. He found an interest in aluminum as it was very hard to extract at the time. This interest…

The objective of Experiment one (both Week one and two) was the separation and examination of Ethanol from complex mixtures using solvent-solvent extraction and chromatography. Week one involved retrieving the concentration of Ethanol and the partition coefficient from standard solutions utilizing the calibration method. Week two was centered on the use of a standard addition method to find Ethanol concentrations in beer samples. Overall, the experiment addressed the issues associated with…

6.3 Results and Discussion 6.3.1 The influence of high pressure on the kinetics of α-chymotrypsin The choice was determined by the fact that the catalytic mechanism as well as pressure stability of this enzyme is well established. α-chymotrypsin-catalyzed hydrolysis proceed according to the Michaelis–Menten mechanism. The initial process involves creation of a stable enzyme substrate complex ES, which is related to KM, afterwards activation of the ES^≠ and subsequent reaction steps occur,…

A dilution is created when two solution are mixed together to reduce the concentration, or when water is added to a solution for the same reason. Molarity is the amount of molecules that a substance contains, for example, the amount of sodium ions in water after adding 2 grams of salt or the amount of sodium chloride molecules to in 10 grams of salt. The reason that we need to understand the molarity of a substance is to have a more controlled experiment. When the molarity of a substance is…

The purpose of this two-part experiment was to convert an alkene to alkyne. This is difficult to accomplish in one step, thus a multi-step process was used to produce the alkyne. First, bromination of stilbene through the electrophilic addition of bromine to the double bond was performed through an SN2 reaction, as outlined in Figure 3. Pyridinium tribromide, the source of bromine, since elemental bromine is too corrosive and hazardous, was generated in situ (Figure 1). The bromine was added…

The technique used in this experiment was serum protein electrophoresis to determine the levels of proteins in cow serum. The objective of this experiment is to perform a gel electrophoresis of cow serum by agarose gel electrophoresis and to interpret the banding patterns produced by the migration of the serum. Electrophoresis is the shift of ions in an electric field in which the protein moves in the gel based on size as well as in electric charge. The electrophoretic mobility of small…