A Manual In Chemistry

by Sunanda Sukumar, Bimlesh Lochab

Overview

This book 'A Manual in Chemistry' was written as the course developed and then became firmly established. The course, designed as the first year chemistry laboratory courses for scientists, physics, chemistry and life science majors as well as all engineering majors: strove to fulfill a number of requirements. Shiv Nadar University has a tie-in with Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, hence in addition to the AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education), and UGC (University Grants Commission), we have had to keep in mind the standards of ACS (American Chemical Society), a body that governs US college students. The experiments are by no means trivial and bench-top analysis that is often odorous, creates toxic gases and adds to environmental hazards have all given way to more sophisticated instrumental methods of analysis. SNU students graduate from the first year Chemistry laboratories capable of running a UV-ViS spectrometer in addition to an FT-IR spectrometer in addition to other non-spectral methods of analysis. The book contains safety instructions as well as how to segregate and deal with waste. Grading schemes are included so that the novice teacher may start teaching without too much worrying. This book will be an asset to every chemistry department as an excellent foundation for advanced organic syntheses, thermodynamics and chemical kinetics studies and other theoretical work too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789387813687
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Sunanda Sukumar, obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (USC), and then had a checkered career with post-docs spanning two continents and working at National Institute of Health, NIH, Taconic Biotechnology and various universities in the US, before returning to India to build up the Chemistry Department at SNU. She thanks her teachers, parents and friends all of whom have generously given their time, encouragement and friendship along the way. THANK YOU!



Bimlesh Lochab, obtained an MSc (1997–1999) and M.Tech. (1999–2000) from IIT, Delhi, India. She held a Felix scholarship for her DPhil degree (2002–2006) from the University of Oxford on the topic of polymers for electrooptic applications. She did her PDF at the University of Oxford andUniversity of Nottingham, UK. After her return to India, she received the Young Scientist Award to research on cardanol-based benzoxazine polymers. In 2012, she joined, as an Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University (SNU), UP, India. Her research interests include polymers using intermediates from sustainable origin; dendritic architectures and polymers for PVs and OLEDs, and nanoparticles for nanocomposite applications. She is currently teaching several courses such as structure and bonding, chemical principles, crime and chemistry, chemistry of our life, nanomaterials, polymer chemistry and green chemistry etc.