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In the Laboratory
Introduction to the Design and Optimization of Experiments Using Response Surface Methodology. A Gas Chromatography Experiment for the Instrumentation Laboratory
Patricia L. Lang, Benjamin I. Miller, and Abigail Tuttle Nowak
Department of Chemistry, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306
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February 2006
Vol. 83 No. 2
p. 280
Abstract
Several experimental design and optimization techniques, such as fractional factorial designs and response surface methodology, are becoming more widely used in chemical research and industry. Yet, the typical chemistry major is likely to be unfamiliar with any of these. We describe a gas chromatography experiment, designed for the senior-level instrumental analysis laboratory, in which the students apply response surface methodology to determine the optimum set of chromatographic conditions required to separate four fatty acid methyl esters.
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 Lang, Patricia L.; Miller, Benjamin I.; Nowak, Abigail Tuttle. J. Chem. Educ. 2006 83 280.
*  Keywords
 Analytical Chemistry; Chemometrics; Chromatography; Esters; Fatty Acids; Gas Chromatography; Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives; Instrumental Methods; Laboratory Instruction; Qualitative Analysis; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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