Instrument Notes

You should also read the assigned material from the lecture text (Shriver, et al. Inorganic Chemistry, 6e, 2014 Freeman).

	Technique	Equipment Available at UCA	Typical Sample Preparations
Electrochemistry	Cyclic voltammetry (CV) p 264 of lecture text my CV notes	EG&G Princeton Applied Research Model 362 Scanning Potentiostat DATAQ AtoD interface for data collection	Supporting electrolyte solution, prepare 10 mL in organic solvents: 0.1 M [NBu4][BF4] in water: 0.1 M KCl Need about 5 mg of sample
EPR	Electron paramagnetic resonance (ESR, electron spin resonance) pp 253,772 of lecture text · H. A. Farach and C. P. Poole, Jr. provides an overview of the technique. · On-line EPR help from Natl. Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) EPR research groups	Resonance Instruments Model 8400	Approximately 0.05 M solutions. Less polar solutions can be recorded in cylindrical quartz EPR tubes. More polar solutions must use flat quartz EPR cell.
NMR	Nuclear magnetic resonance pp 247-249	Jeol ECX-300 FT-NMR	0.1 M solutions Can be run in protio solvents, although deuterated give good lock and shim.
IR	Infrared p 244-5	Thermo Nicolet FTIR 100	as KBr pellets my notes on IR sample prep ATR attachment: allows direct spectra collection on bulk powders
UVvis	Electronic spectroscopy · Ch 20 of the lecture text · Ch 22 W. L. Jolly 1991 Diffuse reflectance (solid samples)	Varian Cary 50 Video Barrelino Diffuse Reflectance attachment (Harrick Sci.)	1 cm quartz cuvettes solid between microscope slides, MgO as reference
Luminescence	Fluorescence p 243	Perkin Elmer LS45 Luminescence Spectrometer	as solutions using special fluorescence cuvettes or as solids using a special powder cell holder
Magnetic Susceptibility	p 264,544 of lecture text my mag. suscept. notes · Ch 25 W. L. Jolly 1991 · MSB1 brochure	Johnson-Matthey MSB-1 magnetic susceptibility balance	finely ground powder packed in glass tube about the same diameter as an NMR tube
GC/MS	Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry	Varian CP-3800 GC, Saturn 2200 MS