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Master SERP+ Programme - cohort 2020-2025
Analytical methods (IR and UV-Vis spectroscopies, NMR, MS) (5 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
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- Transferable skills: Polish course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- The molecules of life: from structure to chemical function (3 ECTS)
- Selected in silico and in vitro methods in thermodynamics and soft matter (6 ECTS)
- Organic chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to solid state (6 ECTS)
- Dynamics of photochemical reactions in chemistry, biology and medicine (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Portuguese course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- Solid State Physics (6 ECTS)
- Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
- Laboratory of Materials and Surface Analysis (6 ECTS)
- Interfacial Electrochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Interfaces, Colloids and Self-Assembly (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Summer School in Entrepreneurship (3 ECTS)
- Organic Photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to Solid State (6 ECTS)
- Inorganic Functional Materials (3 ECTS)
- Electrochemical systems for energy conversion and storage (6 ECTS)
- Chemistry and Technology of Catalysis and Laboratory (6 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Nanosciences (6 ECTS)
- Nanoparticles and Advanced radiation therapies (6 ECTS)
- Fundamentals in data science and machine learning (3 ECTS)
- Femtochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Chemistry for renewable energy: from advanced research to industrial applications (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific writing, Polish courses (6 ECTS)
- Lanthanide luminescence: Application in chemistry and biology (6 ECTS)
- Introduction to Data Sciences (3 ECTS)
- Environmental photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Computational and quantum photochemistry (6 ECTS)
- Applied photochemistry and luminescence spectroscopy (6 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing and Career Objectives (3 ECTS)
- Portuguese course (3 ECTS)
- Nanotechnologies, Micro and Nano-fabrication (6 ECTS)
- Materials Properties and Applications (6 ECTS)
- Electrochemical Technology (6 ECTS)
- Data Science Basics (3 ECTS)
- Bionanotechnology (3 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific Writing Industrial Seminars (3 ECTS)
- Surface Science and Nanostructuring at Surfaces (6 ECTS)
- Polymers for electronics and energy harvesting (6 ECTS)
- Laboratory on device building (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Data Science and Applications to Chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Composite materials for biomedical applications (6 ECTS)
Content
Part A: Mass Spectrometry
Introduction to Mass spectrometry and instrument components (gas phase ion source and mass analyzers).
Interpretation of electron impact fragmentation mass spectra of organic molecules.
Structural and sequence information obtained from tandem mass spectrometry.
Part B: Optical spectroscopies & Photophysical processes
When molecules and light meet…
Electronic transitions – UV-visible and fluorescence
Rovibrational spectroscopy – IR spectroscopy
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Practicals
Mass spectrometry study on gas-phase protonated peptides
Fluorimetry: Polyatomic molecules in condensed phase
Infrared spectroscopy: Rotation vibration spectra of CO and HCl
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Aims
To gain an overview on the standard methods of optical spectroscopy (IR, UV-vis, fluo, NMR): associated spectral ranges, probed molecular properties, applications in analytical chemistry.
To understand the fundamental photochemical processes.
To gain knowledge about the chemical analysis of compounds using mass spectrometry
Pre-requiste
Basics on quantum mechanics (hamiltonien, states of a system)
Basics on classical mechanics (motion of solid bodies)
Description of a photon (as a particle, as an electromagnetic wave)
Teaching Staff
Anne Lafosse (Course Coordinator)
Debora Scuderi
Rachel Méallet-Renault
Claire Romanzin
Christie Aroulanda
Hours
Homework: 10% + Lab: 30% + Exam: 60%
Grading System
Lecture: 9 h
Tutorial: 9 h
Practical courses: 16 h
