Brief Introduction to Analytical Chemistry Analytical chemistry works to improve the ability of all chemical undergraduates to make meaningful measurements. Chemical students who want to do professional works, such as in medicinal chemistry, clinical chemistry, forensic chemistry, and environmental chemistry, as well as the more traditional areas of chemistry, need better tools for analyzing materials. The need to work with smaller quantities of material, with more complex materials, with processes occurring on shorter time scales, and with species present at lower concentrations challenges analytical students to grasp analytical methods and to develop their analytical techniques. Analytical chemistry is the science of making quantitative measurements. In practice, quantifying analytes in a complex sample becomes an exercise in problem solving. Analytical chemistry requires a broad background knowledge of chemical, physical and math’s concepts. Our curse contains the fundamental principles that underly the different analytical methods. As you study the analytical chemistry topics, a fundamental understanding of analytical methods, a scientist faced with a difficult analytical problem can apply the most appropriate technique(s). A fundamental understanding also makes it easier to identify when a particular problem cannot be solved by traditional methods, and gives an analyst the knowledge that is needed to develop creative approaches or new analytical methods. Suggesting readings Text book: Assembled by Xiaoping Liu, Analytical Chemistry, 2006.02References: 1. David Harvey, Modern Analytical Chemistry, McGRAW-HILL, 2000. 2. Douglas A. Skoog, Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry, Saunders College Publishing, 2008. 3. Gary D. Christian, Analytical Chemistry, John Willy, 1993. 4. Jean B. Umland & Joe M. Bellama, General Chemistry, 3e., Thomson Learning, 1999. 5. 史启祯等，无机化学与化学分析，第三版，高等教育出版社，2001年6月。 6. 南京大学，无机及分析化学，高等教育出版社，2000年4月。 7. 武汉大学，分析化学，高等教育出版社，第五版，2007年12月。 by: Liu Xiaoping