Supplemental Material for CH 462 & CH 462H
last updated: 01/09/2012

• Basics of using SciFinder Scholar to search literature.
• Practice tutorial on using Excel (prepared by Ed ODonnell for CH 362)
• Basic overall Excel tutorial (prepared by CP and JDI)
• Valley Library general research guide for chemistry
• Chemistry Department Writing Guide
• Link to Vermont site for MSDS
• Keeping a Laboratory Notebook

Additional Student Directions for Experiments.- Read ahead.  Also review the self study audio tapes and booklets on the east wall in room 311. Tapes and Booklets available for: 1B; 1E;2A;2B;2C;4A;4B;4C.  Please don't remove these from the third floor lab.

Experiment 1.  Zeolites-Student Directions  

• The ABC's of Nuclear Science  http://www.lbl.gov/abc/
   

• Check out the HyperChem rendering for Zeolite 4A.   Copy the file zeolit4a.hin and then open it with HyperChem.  HyperChem is installed on many of the PC's in the teaching lab. 

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• Check out the Web site at  Atlas of Zeolite Structure Types  for crystallographic data on 5A zeolite (nice pictures, too!)   Look under the LTA code.
   
• Single crystals of 4A zeolite through the microscope: Zeolite 4A
   

• Gamma Counting Lab Overview with pictures.  INAA analysis of Zeolite 5A for Na, Al, and Ca.

Experiment 2.  Electrochemistry-Student Directions

Link to Basics of Voltammetry application note.

Parr Control - Spreadsheet template (ver 2008)

Experiment 3.  PMMA Synthesis and Characterization

Useful background information on viscosity and size exclusion chromatography of polymers.
SEC: http://www.pslc.ws/mactest/sec.htm
Viscosity: http://www.pslc.ws/mactest/vis.htm
MW: http://pslc.ws/macrogcss/weight.html

Experiment 4.  FeSCN Complex Studies - Student Directions

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